The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is coined by ? .
John Ruskin
Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to __Thomas Chatterton
Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers ? Clara
Dawes
Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books ?
. The Poor Man and the Lady, The Return of Native, The Woodlanders. All
How many languages did chaucer know ?. 4
in which language the stories of Canterbury tale are written Middle english
Of which poet was it said ’Even if he’s not a great poet, he’s certainly a great
something’ ?Kipling
Why did ’Poetry Quarterly’ cease publication in 1953 ?Owner convicted of fraud
In what form did Dylan Thomas’s ’Under Milk Wood’ first become known A radio play
Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess ? Sylvia Plath
Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry ? War poems
What is a funny poem of five lines called ___________? Limerick
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’ ? Leisure by William Henry Davies
Complete this Shakespearan line – Let me not to the marriage of true minds
bring________? Impediments
There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by – This is a couplet from the Bailiff’s Daughter
of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet ? Synecdoche
What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as _______-? Prosody
Who has defined ’poetry’ as a fundamental creative act using languages ?Dylan Thomas
Which is an example of a proverb ? You can’t have your cake and eat it, too.
The theme is_____________? the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
What is the word for a “play on words” ? . pun
Who wrote ’The Winter’s Tale ? . William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was born in the year_______________? 1564
Which of the following writers wrote historical novels ? Sir Walter Scott and Maria
Edgeworth
Who wrote Canterbury Tales ? Geoffrey Chaucer
’The Cambridge school’ refers to a group who emerged when ? The 1960’s
What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word? Acrostic
From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date? The 12th
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry ? William Carlos Williams
What is the study of poetry’s meter and form called ? . Prosody
In his poem Kipling said ’If you can meet with triumph and ____________ Disaster
Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819 ? . Walt Whitman
Sylvia Plath married which English poet ? Hughes
Which American writer published ’A brave and startling truth’ in 1996 ? Maya Angelou
Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict? First World War
Harold Nicholson described which poet as ’Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners’ ? T.
S. Elliot
Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with ? Nonsense
Which poem ends ’I shall but love thee better after death’ ? . How do I love thee
What is the earliest surviving European poem ? . The Homeric epic
Where did chaucer bury ? westminster abbey
Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England) ? Victor Hugo
Which of the following is not a poet ? Terry Saylor
Who wrote the poems, “On death” and “Women, Wine, and Snuff ?”. John Keats
A poem with no meter or rhyme______________? free verse
A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters_______________? narrative
Using words or letters to imitate sounds_____________? onomatopoeia
A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as___?
metaphor
Applying human qualities to non-human things ?. personification
A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry ? meter
from which language the name ”chaucer” has been driven ? . french
chaucer’s franklin was guilty of which sin ? Gluttony
which of these is magnum opus of chaucer ? . The canterbury tales
Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what ? . Novelist
The magazine ’Contemporary Poetry and Prose’ was inspired by which exhibition .? The
Surrealist Exhibition
How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death ?. 28
Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood? St Louis
How did W. H. Auden describe poetry ? A game of knowledge
Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature ? William
Wordsworth
Which is an exaggeration ? Hyperbole
Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form ?Jintishi
Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas Arabic
Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem Hyperbole
What is a sonnet ?. A poem of fourteen lines
Which is not a poetry form ? . tale
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form ?Hyperboles
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor . A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a
metaphor doesn’t.
following are the works of Shakespeare tragedy ?A. Titus AndronicusB. Othello C.
Macbeth
“Of Man’s 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
Paradise Lost
following are the works of John Keats ? Endymion. To some ladies . To hope
Who wrote “Ten Little Niggers ?” . Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
____________is a late 20th century play written by a woman ? Camille
Who wrote “The Hound of the Baskervilles ?”. Arthur Conan Doyle
Which Welsh poet wrote “Under Milk Wood ? . Dylan Thomas
Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city ? Ottowa
How has Stephen Dunn been described in ’the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry ? A poet
of middleness
From which of Shakespeare’s plays is this famous line: ’Did my heart love til now?/
Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night’. ? Romeo and Juliet
Who wrote this famous line: ’Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day/ Thou art more lovely and
more temperate’ ?. Shakespeare
Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse ? Iambic pentameter
Which of the following is not a poetic tradition ?. The Occult
In 1960 ’The Colossus’ was the first book of poems published by which poetess ? Sylvia Plath
Carl Sandburg ’Planked whitefish’ contains what kind of imagery ? War
Who wrote about the idyllic ’Isle of Innisfree’ ?Yeats
Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse ?BetjemanShe rarely left home
In coleridge’s poem ’The rime of the Ancient Mariner’where were the three gallants going ? A wedding
Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece ?Lord Byron
Concentrate on these elements when writing a good poem ? War.
Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom ? Robert Burns
chaucer was imprisoned during_______________?hundred years’ war
Where were the pilgrims going in the Canterbury tales ? To the shrine of saint thomas
becket at canterbury cathedral
Which represents an example of alliteration ?Peter Piper Picked Peppers
A poem that generally has meter and rhyme______________?lyric
a description that appeals to one of the five senses____________?. imagery
The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as_____________? simile
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds_____________?alliteration
The repetition of similar ending sounds_______________?rhyme
Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry Grammar
What poison does Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet’s father, causing his death ? Hebenon
How does Queen Gertrude die ? Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet’s cup.
