Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?
Answer: Lockhart
Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?
Answer: Tanka
The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is coined by _________________?
Answer: John Ruskin
Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to _______________?
Answer: Thomas Chatterton
Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?
Answer: Clara Dawes
Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books?
Answer: All of the above (Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure)
How many languages did Chaucer know?
Answer: 4
In which language the stories of Canterbury tale are written?
Answer: Middle english
Of which poet was it said ’Even if he’s not a great poet, he’s certainly a great something’?
Answer: Kipling
Why did ’Poetry Quarterly’ cease publication in 1953?
Answer: Owner convicted of fraud
In what form did Dylan Thomas’s ’Under Milk Wood’ first become known?
Answer: A radio play
Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?
Answer: Sylvia Plath
Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?
Answer: War poems
What is a funny poem of five lines called _________________?
Answer: 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’?
Answer: Leisure
Complete this Shakespearan line – Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring________________?
Answer: Impediments
What figure of speech is used in “Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington” couplet?
Answer: Synecdoche
What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called?
Answer: Prosody
Who has defined ’poetry’ as a fundamental creative act using languages?
Answer: Dylan Thomas
Which is an example of a proverb?
Answer: You can’t have your cake and eat it, too
The theme is_____________?
Answer: the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
What is the word for a “play on words”?
Answer: pun
Who wrote ’The Winter’s Tale?’
Answer: William Shakespeare
Q25. William Shakespeare was born in the year_______________?
Answer: 1564
Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?
Answer: Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
’The Cambridge school’ refers to a group who emerged when?
Answer: The 1960’s
What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
Answer: Acrostic
From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?
Answer: The 14th
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
Answer: William Carlos Williams
What is the study of poetry’s meter and form called?
Answer: Prosody
In his poem Kipling said ’If you can meet with triumph and _____________’?
Answer: Disaster
Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?
Answer: Walt Whitman
Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
Answer: Hughes
Which American writer published ’A brave and startling truth’ in 1996?
Answer: Maya Angelou
Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
Answer: First World War
Who was described as ’Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners’?
Answer: T. S. Elliot
Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
Answer: Nonsense
Which poem ends ’I shall but love thee better after death’?
Answer: How do I love thee
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
Answer: The Homeric epic
Where did Chaucer bury?
Answer: westminster abbey
Which of the following is not an English poet?
Answer: Victor Hugo
Which of the following is not a poet?
Answer: Terry Saylor
Who wrote the poems, “On death” and “Women, Wine, and Snuff?”
Answer: John Keats
A poem with no meter or rhyme______________?
Answer: free verse
A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters_______________?
Answer: narrative
Using words or letters to imitate sounds_____________?
Answer: onomatopoeia
Comparison of unlike things without using like or as______________?
Answer: metaphor
Applying human qualities to non-human things?
Answer: personification
A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry?
Answer: meter
From which language the name ”chaucer” has been driven?
Answer: french
Chaucer’s franklin was guilty of which sin?
Answer: Gluttony
Which of these is magnum opus of chaucer?
Answer: The canterbury tales
Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?
Answer: Novelist
The magazine ’Contemporary Poetry and Prose’ was inspired by?
Answer: The Surrealist Exhibition
How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
Answer: 28
Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
Answer: St Louis
How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?
Answer: A game of knowledge
Who was often called as the Romantic Poet?
Answer: William Wordsworth
Which is an exaggeration?
Answer: Hyperbole
Which culture is known for long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?
Answer: Arabic
Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated?
Answer: Hyperbole
What is a sonnet?
Answer: A poem of fourteen lines
Which is not a poetry form?
Answer: tale
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Answer: Onomatopoeia
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
Answer: A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesn’t.
“Of Man’s first disobedience…” is an extract from?
Answer: Paradise Lost
Who wrote “Ten Little Niggers?”
Answer: Agatha Christie
____________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?
Answer: Top Girls
Who wrote “The Hound of the Baskervilles?”
Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle
Which Welsh poet wrote “Under Milk Wood?“
Answer: Dylan Thomas
Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?
Answer: Ottowa
How has Stephen Dunn been described?
Answer: A poet of middleness
From which play: ’Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight’?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
Who wrote: ’Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’?
Answer: Shakespeare
Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
Answer: Iambic pentameter
Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
Answer: The Occult
’The Colossus’ was the first book of poems by which poetess?
Answer: Sylvia Plath
Carl Sandburg ’Planked whitefish’ contains what kind of imagery?
Answer: Sea scenes
Who wrote about the idyllic ’Isle of Innisfree’?
Answer: Yeats
Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
Answer: Betjeman
What was strange about Emily Dickinson?
Answer: She rarely left home
In Ancient Mariner, where were the three gallants going?
Answer: A wedding
Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
Answer: Lord Byron
Concentrate on these elements when writing a good poem?
Answer: theme, purpose, form, and mood.
Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom?
Answer: Robert Burns
Chaucer was imprisoned during_______________?
Answer: hundred years’ war
Where were the pilgrims going in the Canterbury tales?
Answer: To the shrine of saint thomas becket at canterbury cathedral
Which represents an example of alliteration?
Answer: Peter Piper Picked Peppers
A poem that generally has meter and rhyme______________?
Answer: lyric
A description that appeals to one of the five senses____________?
Answer: imagery
Comparison of unlike things using like or as_____________?
Answer: simile
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds_____________?
Answer: alliteration
The repetition of similar ending sounds_______________?
Answer: rhyme
Which is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect?
Answer: Grammar
What poison does Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet’s father?
Answer: Hebenon
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