Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
William Carlos Williams
Emily Dickinson
Gerard Manly Hopkins
Robert Frost
Correct Answer :
A. William Carlos Williams
Related Questions
What was strange about Emily Dickinson?
She rarely left home
She wrote in code
She never attempted to publish her poetry
She wrote her poems in invisible ink
What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
Alliterative
Epic
Acrostic
Haiku
Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England)?
Victor Hugo
Alexander Pope
John Milton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
William Carlos Williams
Emily Dickinson
Gerard Manly Hopkins
Robert Frost
Which American writer published A brave and startling truth in 1996
Robert Hass
Jessica Hagdorn
Maya Angelou
Micheal Palmer
Why did Poetry Quarterly cease publication in 1953?
Owner convicted of fraud
Fall in Sales
Rise in taxation on magazines
Shortage of paper
Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?
Jintishi
Villanelle
Ode
Tanka
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.
Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dick Whittington
Thomas Lancaster
King Richard II
In coleridges poem The rime of the Ancient Marinerwhere were the three gallants going?
A funeral
A wedding
Market
To the races
Complete this Shakespearan line Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring:
Impediments
Inconveniences
Worries
Troubles
Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Burton
Tom Jones
Dylan Thomas
from which language the name chaucer has been driven?
french
latin
italian
english
Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
Alliterative verse
Sonnet form
Iambic pentameter
Dactylic hexameter
Who wrote The Winters Tale?
George Bernard Shaw
John Dryden
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?
Prosody
Allegory
Scansion
Assonance
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
How many languages did chaucer know?
2
4
1
5
Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
The Epic
The Comic
The Occult
The Tragic
___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?
Queen Cristina
Top Girls
Camille
The Homecoimg
Carl Sandburg Planked whitefish contains what kind of imagery?
Sea scenes
Rural Idyll
War
Innocent childhood
What is the word for a play on words?
pun
simile
haiku
metaphor
Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:
Titus Andronicus
Taming of the Shrew
White Devil
Hamlet
Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
John keats
Lord Byron
Solan
Sappho
What is a sonnet?
A poem of six lines
A poem of eight lines
A poem of twelve lines
A poem of fourteen lines
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
From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?
The 12th
The 14th
The 17th
The 19th
The theme is …?
a plot.
an character
an address
the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
Denver
St Louis
Cuba
Toronto
Which is not a poetry form?
epic
tale
ballad
sonnet