Who wrote The Winters Tale?
George Bernard Shaw
John Dryden
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Correct Answer :
D. William Shakespeare
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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
The theme is …?
a plot.
an character
an address
the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
Masefield
Causley
Hughes
Larkin
In his poem Kipling said If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . .?
Glory
Ruin
Disaster
victory
How many languages did chaucer know?
2
4
1
5
chaucers franklin was guilty of which sin?
Lust
Corruption
Theft
Gluttony
From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?
The 12th
The 14th
The 17th
The 19th
In what form did Dylan Thomass Under Milk Wood first become known?
Book of poetry
A radio play
A stage play
a short film
Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Burton
Tom Jones
Dylan Thomas
How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
24
31
21
28
Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
Betjeman
Hughes
Marvel
Larkin
Of which poet was it said Even if hes not a great poet, hes certainly a great something?
Elliot
Kipling
Cummings
Brooke
Which is an exaggeration?
Alliteration
Haiku
Hyperbole
Prose
Which represents an example of alliteration?
Language Arts
Peter Piper Picked Peppers
I like music.
A beautiful scenery with music
Carl Sandburg Planked whitefish contains what kind of imagery?
Sea scenes
Rural Idyll
War
Innocent childhood
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 poet?
William Shakespeare
Terry Saylor
Elizabeth b. Browning
Emily Dickinson
Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?
Hindu
Celtic
Arabic
Arameic
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.
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
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Personification
Hyperboles
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
In 1960 The Colossus was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath
Marianne Moore
Laura Jackson
There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by This is a couplet from the Bailiffs Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet?
Metaphor
Synecdoche
Euphemism
Irony
Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?
Titus Andronicus
Macbeth
Hamlet
None of the above
how many children chaucer had?
4
1
0
2
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
Who wrote The Winters Tale?
George Bernard Shaw
John Dryden
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Why did Poetry Quarterly cease publication in 1953?
Owner convicted of fraud
Fall in Sales
Rise in taxation on magazines
Shortage of paper
Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:
Titus Andronicus
Taming of the Shrew
White Devil
Hamlet
Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dick Whittington
Thomas Lancaster
King Richard II