Which is an example of a proverb?
Get a stake in our business.
You cant have your cake and eat it, too
The snow was white as cotton.
Youre driving me crazy.
Correct Answer :
B. You cant have your cake and eat it, too
Related Questions
Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
Alliterative verse
Sonnet form
Iambic pentameter
Dactylic hexameter
Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?
Vancouver
Toronto
Ottowa
Montreal
The magazine Contemporary Poetry and Prose was inspired by which exhibition?
The Festival of Britain
The Surrealist Exhibition
People of the 20th Century
Drawing the 20th CEntury
Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
Nature
Epics
Sonnets
Nonsense
The Cambridge school refers to a group who emerged when?
The 1900's
The 1960's
The 1920's
The 1930's
Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England)?
Victor Hugo
Alexander Pope
John Milton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is the word for a play on words?
pun
simile
haiku
metaphor
There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by This is a couplet from the Bailiffs Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet?
Metaphor
Synecdoche
Euphemism
Irony
Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?
Titus Andronicus
Macbeth
Hamlet
None of the above
Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
Masefield
Causley
Hughes
Larkin
From which of Shakespeares plays is this famous line: Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Hamlet
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
No difference. Simply two different ways in referring to the same thing.
A simile is more descriptive.
A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesnt.
A simile must use animals in the comparison.
Complete this Shakespearan line Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring:
Impediments
Inconveniences
Worries
Troubles
Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?
Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?
Prosody
Allegory
Scansion
Assonance
What is a sonnet?
A poem of six lines
A poem of eight lines
A poem of twelve lines
A poem of fourteen lines
Who wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles?
Agatha Christie
H Ryder-Haggard
P D James
Arthur Conan Doyle
What is a funny poem of five lines called?
Quartet
Limerick
Sextet
Palindrome
Why did Poetry Quarterly cease publication in 1953?
Owner convicted of fraud
Fall in Sales
Rise in taxation on magazines
Shortage of paper
Which American writer published A brave and startling truth in 1996
Robert Hass
Jessica Hagdorn
Maya Angelou
Micheal Palmer
Harold Nicholson described which poet as Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners?
e. e. Cummings
T. S. Elliot
John Greenleaf Whittier
Walt Whitman
in which language the stories of canterbury tale are written?
French
Latin
Middle english
English
In 1960 The Colossus was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath
Marianne Moore
Laura Jackson
Of Mans first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden. This is an extract from:
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Samson Agonistes
Divorce Tracts
Which represents an example of alliteration?
Language Arts
Peter Piper Picked Peppers
I like music.
A beautiful scenery with music
How has Stephen Dunn been described in the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry?
A poet of middleness
Capturing a sense of spiritual marooness
One of the leading prairie poets
Has some distinction as a critic
In his poem Kipling said If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . .?
Glory
Ruin
Disaster
victory
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
William Carlos Williams
Emily Dickinson
Gerard Manly Hopkins
Robert Frost
Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
Denver
St Louis
Cuba
Toronto
Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
The Epic
The Comic
The Occult
The Tragic