Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
The Epic
The Comic
The Occult
The Tragic
Correct Answer :
C. The Occult
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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
Carl Sandburg Planked whitefish contains what kind of imagery?
Sea scenes
Rural Idyll
War
Innocent childhood
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
chaucer was imprisoned during-?
hundred years war
Black death
Peasant revolt
None of the above
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Alliterative
Epic
Acrostic
Haiku
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2
4
1
5
Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
Masefield
Causley
Hughes
Larkin
in which language the stories of canterbury tale are written?
French
Latin
Middle english
English
Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?
Vancouver
Toronto
Ottowa
Montreal
Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?
Titus Andronicus
Macbeth
Hamlet
None of the above
What is a sonnet?
A poem of six lines
A poem of eight lines
A poem of twelve lines
A poem of fourteen lines
how many children chaucer had?
4
1
0
2
Who wrote the poems, On death and Women, Wine, and Snuff?
John Milton
John Keats
P.b. Shelley
William Wordsworth
Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Burton
Tom Jones
Dylan Thomas
Of which poet was it said Even if hes not a great poet, hes certainly a great something?
Elliot
Kipling
Cummings
Brooke
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
William Carlos Williams
Emily Dickinson
Gerard Manly Hopkins
Robert Frost
Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
Nature
Epics
Sonnets
Nonsense
What is a funny poem of five lines called?
Quartet
Limerick
Sextet
Palindrome
Which is not a poetry form?
epic
tale
ballad
sonnet
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Personification
Hyperboles
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
which of these is magnum opus of chaucer?
Troilus and criseyde
House of fame
The canterbury tales
Parliament of fowls.
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
Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?
Jintishi
Villanelle
Ode
Tanka
The Cambridge school refers to a group who emerged when?
The 1900's
The 1960's
The 1920's
The 1930's
Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?
Onomatopeia
Metonymy
Alliteration
Hyperbole
What is the study of poetrys meter and form called?
Prosody
Potology
Rheumatology
Scansion
Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
Denver
St Louis
Cuba
Toronto
Who wrote Ten Little Niggers?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Irvine Welsh
Agatha Christie
None of above
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
The Homeric epic
The Gilgamesh epic
The Deluge epic
The Hesiodic ode
Which American writer published A brave and startling truth in 1996
Robert Hass
Jessica Hagdorn
Maya Angelou
Micheal Palmer