Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
Betjeman
Hughes
Marvel
Larkin
Correct Answer :
A. Betjeman
Related Questions
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 of the following is not a poetic tradition?
The Epic
The Comic
The Occult
The Tragic
How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
24
31
21
28
Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?
Titus Andronicus
Macbeth
Hamlet
None of the above
What is the word for a play on words?
pun
simile
haiku
metaphor
Which is not a poetry form?
epic
tale
ballad
sonnet
The Cambridge school refers to a group who emerged when?
The 1900's
The 1960's
The 1920's
The 1930's
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
Carl Sandburg Planked whitefish contains what kind of imagery?
Sea scenes
Rural Idyll
War
Innocent childhood
Of which poet was it said Even if hes not a great poet, hes certainly a great something?
Elliot
Kipling
Cummings
Brooke
how many children chaucer had?
4
1
0
2
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
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
Who wrote the poems, On death and Women, Wine, and Snuff?
John Milton
John Keats
P.b. Shelley
William Wordsworth
How many languages did chaucer know?
2
4
1
5
In 1960 The Colossus was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath
Marianne Moore
Laura Jackson
The theme is …?
a plot.
an character
an address
the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
In what form did Dylan Thomass Under Milk Wood first become known?
Book of poetry
A radio play
A stage play
a short film
What is the study of poetrys meter and form called?
Prosody
Potology
Rheumatology
Scansion
Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
Alliterative verse
Sonnet form
Iambic pentameter
Dactylic hexameter
Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?
Hindu
Celtic
Arabic
Arameic
Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?
Politician
Dramatist
Novelist
Architect
From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?
The 12th
The 14th
The 17th
The 19th
Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
John keats
Lord Byron
Solan
Sappho
Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?
Jintishi
Villanelle
Ode
Tanka
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
Who wrote The Winters Tale?
George Bernard Shaw
John Dryden
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
Masefield
Causley
Hughes
Larkin
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
The Homeric epic
The Gilgamesh epic
The Deluge epic
The Hesiodic ode
___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?
Queen Cristina
Top Girls
Camille
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