Which of the following is not a poet?
William Shakespeare
Terry Saylor
Elizabeth b. Browning
Emily Dickinson
Correct Answer :
B. Terry Saylor
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Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England)?
Victor Hugo
Alexander Pope
John Milton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 work of John Keats?
Endymion
To some ladies
To hope
None of above
What is the title of the poem that begins thus What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
Comfort
Leisure
Relaxation
Tranquility
Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Burton
Tom Jones
Dylan Thomas
What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
Alliterative
Epic
Acrostic
Haiku
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
How many languages did chaucer know?
2
4
1
5
which of these is magnum opus of chaucer?
Troilus and criseyde
House of fame
The canterbury tales
Parliament of fowls.
Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?
Politician
Dramatist
Novelist
Architect
What is a sonnet?
A poem of six lines
A poem of eight lines
A poem of twelve lines
A poem of fourteen lines
William Shakespeare was born in the year:
1564
1544
1578
1582
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
William Carlos Williams
Emily Dickinson
Gerard Manly Hopkins
Robert Frost
Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?
Vancouver
Toronto
Ottowa
Montreal
What is the word for a play on words?
pun
simile
haiku
metaphor
In what form did Dylan Thomass Under Milk Wood first become known?
Book of poetry
A radio play
A stage play
a short film
Carl Sandburg Planked whitefish contains what kind of imagery?
Sea scenes
Rural Idyll
War
Innocent childhood
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.
Who wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles?
Agatha Christie
H Ryder-Haggard
P D James
Arthur Conan Doyle
Which of the following is not a poet?
William Shakespeare
Terry Saylor
Elizabeth b. Browning
Emily Dickinson
___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?
Queen Cristina
Top Girls
Camille
The Homecoimg
Who wrote Ten Little Niggers?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Irvine Welsh
Agatha Christie
None of above
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
In 1960 The Colossus was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath
Marianne Moore
Laura Jackson
Who wrote The Winters Tale?
George Bernard Shaw
John Dryden
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
in which language the stories of canterbury tale are written?
French
Latin
Middle english
English
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
from which language the name chaucer has been driven?
french
latin
italian
english
Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
Betjeman
Hughes
Marvel
Larkin
Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?
Hindu
Celtic
Arabic
Arameic