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Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?

A. William Blake

B. William Shakespeare

C. William Morris

D. William Wordsworth

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D. William Wordsworth


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Which of the following is not a work of John Keats?

A. Endymion

B. To some ladies

C. To hope

D. None of above

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Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?

A. Anthony Hopkins

B. Richard Burton

C. Tom Jones

D. Dylan Thomas

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How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?

A. An awful way to earn a living

B. A game of knowledge

C. The soul exposed

D. An explosion of language

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How has Stephen Dunn been described in the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry?

A. A poet of middleness

B. Capturing a sense of spiritual marooness

C. One of the leading prairie poets

D. Has some distinction as a critic

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What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?

A. Prosody

B. Allegory

C. Scansion

D. Assonance

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Who wrote the poems, On death and Women, Wine, and Snuff?

A. John Milton

B. John Keats

C. P.b. Shelley

D. William Wordsworth

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Which is not a poetry form?

A. epic

B. tale

C. ballad

D. sonnet

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Sylvia Plath married which English poet?

A. Masefield

B. Causley

C. Hughes

D. Larkin

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How many languages did chaucer know?

A. 2

B. 4

C. 1

D. 5

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Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?

A. Light verse

B. Romantic

C. Political satire

D. War poems

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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:

A. Paradise Lost

B. Paradise Regained

C. Samson Agonistes

D. Divorce Tracts

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Which is an example of a proverb?

A. Get a stake in our business.

B. You cant have your cake and eat it, too

C. The snow was white as cotton.

D. Youre driving me crazy.

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Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?

A. Onomatopeia

B. Metonymy

C. Alliteration

D. Hyperbole

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Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?

A. Carolyn Kizer

B. Mary Oliver

C. Sylvia Plath

D. Marianne Moore

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How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?

A. 24

B. 31

C. 21

D. 28

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which of these is magnum opus of chaucer?

A. Troilus and criseyde

B. House of fame

C. The canterbury tales

D. Parliament of fowls.

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Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?

A. Jintishi

B. Villanelle

C. Ode

D. Tanka

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Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?

A. Alliterative verse

B. Sonnet form

C. Iambic pentameter

D. Dactylic hexameter

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What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?

A. Personification

B. Hyperboles

C. Alliteration

D. Onomatopoeia

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In 1960 The Colossus was the first book of poems published by which poetess?

A. Elizabeth Bishop

B. Sylvia Plath

C. Marianne Moore

D. Laura Jackson

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In his poem Kipling said If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . .?

A. Glory

B. Ruin

C. Disaster

D. victory

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The Cambridge school refers to a group who emerged when?

A. The 1900's

B. The 1960's

C. The 1920's

D. The 1930's

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Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?

A. Boer War

B. Second World War

C. Korean War

D. First World War

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In what form did Dylan Thomass Under Milk Wood first become known?

A. Book of poetry

B. A radio play

C. A stage play

D. a short film

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how many children chaucer had?

A. 4

B. 1

C. 0

D. 2

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From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?

A. The 12th

B. The 14th

C. The 17th

D. The 19th

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What was strange about Emily Dickinson?

A. She rarely left home

B. She wrote in code

C. She never attempted to publish her poetry

D. She wrote her poems in invisible ink

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What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?

A. Alliterative

B. Epic

C. Acrostic

D. Haiku

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Who has defined poetry as a fundamental creative act using languages?

A. H. W. Longfellow

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Dylan Thomas

D. William Wordsworth

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Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?

A. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte

B. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley