Que- Which of the following statement is correct ?
a. Shakespeare's first child Susanna was born in 1583.
b. In 1585 twins were born and named Hamnet and Judith.
c. Both (A) and (B)
d. None of above.
Answer- Both (A) and (B)
Que- How many languages did chaucer know ?
a. 2
b. 4
c. 1
d. 5
Answer- 4
Que- in which language the stories of Canterbury tale are written ?
a. French
b. Latin
c. Middle english
d. English
Answer- Middle english
Que- Of which poet was it said 'Even if he's not a great poet, he's certainly a great something' ?
a. Elliot
b. Kipling
c. Cummings
d. Brooke
Answer- Kipling
Que- Why did 'Poetry Quarterly' cease publication in 1953 ?
a. Owner convicted of fraud
b. Fall in Sales
c. Rise in taxation on magazines
d. Shortage of paper
Answer- Owner convicted of fraud
Que- In what form did Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood' first become known ?
a. Book of poetry
b. A radio play
c. A stage play
d. a short film
Answer- A radio play
Que- Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess ?
a. Carolyn Kizer
b. Mary Oliver
c. Sylvia Plath
d. Marianne Moore
Answer- Sylvia Plath
Que- Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry ?
a. Light verse
b. Romantic
c. Political satire
d. War poems
Answer- War poems
Que- What is a funny poem of five lines called _________________ ?
a. Quartet
b. Limerick
c. Sextet
d. Palindrome
Answer- Limerick
Que- 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' ?
a. Comfort
b. Leisure
c. Relaxation
d. Tranquility
Answer- Leisure
Que- Complete this Shakespearan line – Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring________________?
a. Impediments
b. Inconveniences
c. Worries
d. Troubles
Answer- Impediments
Que- 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 ?
a. Metaphor
b. Synecdoche
c. Euphemism
d. Irony
Answer- Synecdoche
Que- What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as _______________-?
a. Prosody
b. Allegory
c. Scansion
d. Assonance
Answer- Prosody
Que- 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
Answer- Dylan Thomas
Que- Which is an example of a proverb ?
a. Get a "stake" in our business.
b. You can't have your cake and eat it, too
c. The snow was white as cotton.
d. You're driving me crazy.
Answer- You can't have your cake and eat it, too
Que- The theme is_____________?
a. a plot.
b. an character
c. an address
d. the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
Answer- the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
Que- What is the word for a "play on words" ?
a. pun
b. simile
c. haiku
d. metaphor
Answer- pun
Que- Who wrote 'The Winter's Tale ?'
a. George Bernard Shaw
b. John Dryden
c. Christopher Marlowe
d. William Shakespeare
Answer- William Shakespeare
Que- William Shakespeare was born in the year_______________?
a. 1564
b. 1544
c. 1578
d. 1582
Answer- 1564
Que- 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
Answer- Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
Que- Who wrote Canterbury Tales ?
a. Geoffrey Chaucer
b. Dick Whittington
c. Thomas Lancaster
d. King Richard II
Answer- Geoffrey Chaucer
Que- Which of the following words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature ?
a. Skeptical
b. Authoritative
c. Impressionistic
d. Both a & c
Answer- Both a & c
Que- 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
Answer- The 1960's
Que- What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word ?
a. Alliterative
b. Epic
c. Acrostic
d. Haiku
Answer- Acrostic
Que- From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date ?
a. The 12th
b. The 14th
c. The 17th
d. The 19th
Answer- The 12th
Que- Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry ?
a. William Carlos Williams
b. Emily Dickinson
c. Gerard Manly Hopkins
d. Robert Frost
Answer- William Carlos Williams
Que- What is the study of poetry's meter and form called ?
a. Prosody
b. Potology
c. Rheumatology
d. Scansion
Answer- Prosody
Que- In his poem Kipling said 'If you can meet with triumph and _____________'?
a. Glory
b. Ruin
c. Disaster
d. victory
Answer- Disaster
Que- Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819 ?
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Paul Dunbar
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman
Answer- Walt Whitman
Que- Sylvia Plath married which English poet ?
a. Masefield
b. Causley
c. Hughes
d. Larkin
Answer- Hughes
Que- Which American writer published 'A brave and startling truth' in 1996 ?
a. Robert Hass
b. Jessica Hagdorn
c. Maya Angelou
d. Micheal Palmer
Answer- Maya Angelou
Que- Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
a. Boer War
b. Second World War
c. Korean War
d. First World War
Answer- First World War
Que- Harold Nicholson described which poet as 'Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners' ?
a. e. e. Cummings
b. T. S. Elliot
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman
Answer- T. S. Elliot
Que- Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with ?
a. Nature
b. Epics
c. Sonnets
d. Nonsense
Answer- Nonsense
Que- Which poem ends 'I shall but love thee better after death' ?
a. How do I love thee
b. Ode to a Grecian urn
c. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
d. Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Answer- How do I love thee
Que- Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books ?
a. The Poor Man and the Lady
b. The Return of Native
c. Chollttee
d. None of the above
Answer- The Poor Man and the Lady
Que- What is the earliest surviving European poem ?
a. The Homeric epic
b. The Gilgamesh epic
c. The Deluge epic
d. The Hesiodic ode
Answer- The Homeric epic
Que- Where did chaucer bury ?
a. westminster abbey
b. kent church
c. chapel at windsor
d. none of the above
Answer- westminster abbey
Que- Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England) ?
a. Victor Hugo
b. Alexander Pope
c. John Milton
d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Answer- Victor Hugo
Que- Which of the following is not a poet ?
a. William Shakespeare
b. Terry Saylor
c. Browning
d. Emily Dickinson
Answer- Terry Saylor
Que- Who wrote the poems, "On death" and "Women, Wine, and Snuff ?"
a. John Milton
b. John Keats
c. P.B Shelley
d. William Wordsworth
Answer- John Keats
Que- A poem with no meter or rhyme______________?
a. lyric
b. free verse
c. narrative
d. none of the above
Answer- free verse
Que- A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters_______________?
a. lyric
b. free verse
c. narrative
d. none of the above
Answer- narrative
Que- Using words or letters to imitate sounds_____________?
a. alliteration
b. simile
c. onomatopoeia
d. none of the above
Answer- onomatopoeia
Que- A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as______________?
a. metaphor
b. simile
c. personification
d. none of the above
Answer- metaphor
Que- Applying human qualities to non-human things ?
a. personification
b. onomatopoeia
c. alliteration
d. none of the above
Answer- personification
Que- A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry ?
a. rhyme scheme
b. meter
c. alliteration
d. none of the above
Answer- meter
Que- from which language the name "chaucer" has been driven ?
a. french
b. latin
c. italian
d. English
Answer- french
Que- chaucer's franklin was guilty of which sin ?
a. Lust
b. Corruption
c. Theft
d. Gluttony
Answer- Gluttony
Que- which of these is magnum opus of chaucer ?
a. Troilus and criseyde
b. House of fame
c. The canterbury tales
d. Parliament of fowls
Answer- The canterbury tales