Que- Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what ?
a. Politician
b. Dramatist
c. Novelist
d. Architect
Answer- Novelist
Que- The magazine 'Contemporary Poetry and Prose' was inspired by which exhibition ?
a. The Festival of Britain
b. The Surrealist Exhibition
c. People of the 20th Century
d. Drawing the 20th Century
Answer- The Surrealist Exhibition
Que- How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death ?
a. 24
b. 31
c. 21
d. 28
Answer- 28
Que- Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
a. Denver
b. St Louis
c. Cuba
d. Toronto
Answer- St Louis
Que- 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
Answer- A game of knowledge
Que- 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
Answer- William Wordsworth
Que- Which is an exaggeration ?
a. Alliteration
b. Haiku
c. Hyperbole
d. Prose
Answer- Hyperbole
Que- Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form ?
a. Jintishi
b. Villanelle
c. Ode
d. Tanka
Answer- Jintishi
Que- Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas ?
a. Hindu
b. Celtic
c. Arabic
d. Arameic
Answer- Arabic
Que- Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem ?
a. Onomatopeia
b. Metonymy
c. Alliteration
d. Hyperbole
Answer- Hyperbole
Que- What is a sonnet ?
a. A poem of six lines
b. A poem of eight lines
c. A poem of twelve lines
d. A poem of fourteen lines
Answer- A poem of fourteen lines
Que- Which is not a poetry form ?
a. epic
b. tale
c. ballad
d. sonnet
Answer- tale
Que- What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form ?
a. Personification
b. Hyperboles
c. Alliteration
d. Onomatopoeia
Answer- Onomatopoeia
Que- What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor ?
a. No difference. Simply two different ways in referring to the same thing.
b. A simile is more descriptive.
c. A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesn't.
d. A simile must use animals in the comparison.
Answer- A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesn't.
Que- Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy ?
a. Titus Andronicus
b. Othello
c. Macbeth
d. None of the above
Answer- None of the above
Que- 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 ?
a. Paradise Lost
b. Paradise Regained
c. Samson Agonistes
d. Divorce Tracts
Answer- Paradise Lost
Que- Which of the following is not a work of John Keats ?
a. Endymion
b. To some ladies
c. To hope
d. None of above
Answer- None of above
Que- Who wrote "Ten Little Niggers ?"
a. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
b. Irvine Welsh
c. Agatha Christie
d. None of above
Answer- Agatha Christie
Que- ____________is a late 20th century play written by a woman ?
a. Queen Cristina
b. Top Girls
c. Camille
d. The Homecoimg
Answer- Camille
Que- Who wrote "The Hound of the Baskervilles ?"
a. Agatha Christie
b. H Ryder-Haggard
c. P D James
d. Arthur Conan Doyle
Answer- Arthur Conan Doyle
Que- Which Welsh poet wrote "Under Milk Wood ? "
a. Anthony Hopkins
b. Richard Burton
c. Tom Jones
d. Dylan Thomas
Answer- Dylan Thomas
Que- Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city ?
a. Vancouver
b. Toronto
c. Ottowa
d. Montreal
Answer- Ottowa
Que- 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
Answer- A poet of middleness
Que- 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'. ?
a. A Midsummer Night's Dream
b. Hamlet
c. Othello
d. Romeo and Juliet
Answer- Romeo and Juliet
Que- Who wrote this famous line: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate' ?
a. TS Eliot
b. Lord Tennyson
c. Charlotte Bronte
d. Shakespeare
Answer- Shakespeare
Que- Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse ?
a. Alliterative verse
b. Sonnet form
c. Iambic pentameter
d. Dactylic hexameter
Answer- Iambic pentameter
Que- Which of the following is not a poetic tradition ?
a. The Epic
b. The Comic
c. The Occult
d. The Tragic
Answer- The Occult
Que- 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
Answer- Sylvia Plath
Que- Carl Sandburg 'Planked whitefish' contains what kind of imagery ?
a. Sea scenes
b. Rural Idyll
c. War
d. Innocent childhood
Answer- War
Que- Who wrote about the idyllic 'Isle of Innisfree' ?
a. Dylan Thomas
b. Ezra Pound
c. Yeats
d. E. E. cummings
Answer- Yeats
Que- Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse ?
a. Betjeman
b. Hughes
c. Marvel
d. Larkin
Answer- Betjeman
Que- 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
Answer- She rarely left home
Que- In coleridge's poem 'The rime of the Ancient Mariner'where were the three gallants going ?
a. A funeral
b. A wedding
c. Market
d. To the races
Answer- A wedding
Que- Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece ?
a. John keats
b. Lord Byron
c. Solan
d. Sappho
Answer- Lord Byron
Que- Concentrate on these elements when writing a good poem ?
a. characters, main idea, and theme
b. purpose and audience
c. theme, purpose, form, and mood.
d. rhyme and reason
Answer- theme, purpose, form, and mood.
Que- Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom ?
a. Sir Walter Scott
b. William Butler Yeats
c. Henry Longfellow
d. Robert Burns
Answer- Robert Burns
Que- chaucer was imprisoned during_______________?
a. hundred years' war
b. Black death
c. Peasant revolt
d. none of the above
Answer- hundred years' war
Que- Where were the pilgrims going in the Canterbury tales ?
a. To the shrine of st. Peter at Canterbury cathedral
b. To the shrine of saint thomas becket at canterbury cathedral
c. both A and B
d. None of these
Answer- To the shrine of saint thomas becket at canterbury cathedral
Que- Which represents an example of alliteration ?
a. Language Arts
b. Peter Piper Picked Peppers
c. I like music
d. A beautiful scenery with music
Answer- Peter Piper Picked Peppers
Que- A poem that generally has meter and rhyme______________?
a. lyric
b. free verse
c. narrative
d. none of the above
Answer- lyric
Que- a description that appeals to one of the five senses____________?
a. imagery
b. personification
c. metaphor
d. none of the above
Answer- imagery
Que- The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as_____________?
a. metaphor
b. simile
c. personification
d. none of the above
Answer- simile
Que- The repetition of beginning consonant sounds_____________?
a. rhyme
b. onomatopoeia
c. alliteration
d. none of the above
Answer- alliteration
Que- The repetition of similar ending sounds_______________?
a. alliteration
b. onomatopoiea
c. rhyme
d. none of the above
Answer- rhyme
Que- Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry ?
a. Assonance
b. Onomatopaea
c. Rhyme
d. Grammar
Answer- Grammar
Que- What poison does Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet's father, causing his death ?
a. Burdock
b. Hebenon
c. Baneberry
d. Hemlock
Answer- Hebenon
Que- How does Queen Gertrude die ?
a. Accidentally stabbed by Laertes.
b. Drowns in the river outside the castle.
c. Suffers a fatal heart attack while watching Hamlet fight Laertes.
d. Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet's cup.
Answer- Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet's cup.
Que- Who says, "Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest." ?
a. Fortinbras
b. Marcellus
c. Chorus
d. Horatio
Answer- Horatio
Que- How are Polonius and Laertes related ?
a. Father/son
b. Uncle/nephew
c. Cousin/cousin
d. Brother/brother
Answer- Father/son
Que- Who is Voltimand ?
a. Ambassador to the King of Norway from the King of Denmark
b. Hamlet's cousin
c. Ambassador to the King of Denmark from the King of Norway
d. Assassin in the service of Fortinbras
Answer- Ambassador to the King of Norway from the King of Denmark