Who has defined poetry as a fundamental creative act using languages?
H. W. Longfellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dylan Thomas
William Wordsworth
Correct Answer :
C. Dylan Thomas
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Why did Poetry Quarterly cease publication in 1953?
Owner convicted of fraud
Fall in Sales
Rise in taxation on magazines
Shortage of paper
Of which poet was it said Even if hes not a great poet, hes certainly a great something?
Elliot
Kipling
Cummings
Brooke
Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?
Politician
Dramatist
Novelist
Architect
Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?
Jintishi
Villanelle
Ode
Tanka
Complete this Shakespearan line Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring:
Impediments
Inconveniences
Worries
Troubles
Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dick Whittington
Thomas Lancaster
King Richard II
Which poem ends I shall but love thee better after death?
How do I love thee
Ode to a Grecian urn
In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
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
Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?
William Blake
William Shakespeare
William Morris
William Wordsworth
Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:
Titus Andronicus
Taming of the Shrew
White Devil
Hamlet
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Personification
Hyperboles
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?
Prosody
Allegory
Scansion
Assonance
Who has defined poetry as a fundamental creative act using languages?
H. W. Longfellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dylan Thomas
William Wordsworth
Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?
Onomatopeia
Metonymy
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Which is an exaggeration?
Alliteration
Haiku
Hyperbole
Prose
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 words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature?
Skeptical
Authoritative
Impressionistic
Both a & c
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.
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
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
___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?
Queen Cristina
Top Girls
Camille
The Homecoimg
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
The Homeric epic
The Gilgamesh epic
The Deluge epic
The Hesiodic ode
How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?
An awful way to earn a living
A game of knowledge
The soul exposed
An explosion of language
Where did chaucer bury?
westminster abbey
kent church
chapel at windsor
None of the above
What is the study of poetrys meter and form called?
Prosody
Potology
Rheumatology
Scansion
chaucer was imprisoned during-?
hundred years war
Black death
Peasant revolt
None of the above
Which is not a poetry form?
epic
tale
ballad
sonnet
Carl Sandburg Planked whitefish contains what kind of imagery?
Sea scenes
Rural Idyll
War
Innocent childhood