Poetry Basics
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1. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
2. Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books?
3. Who wrote 'Ten Little Niggers?'
4. A poem with no meter or rhyme
5. What is the study of poetry's meter and form called?
6. Which is not a poetry form?
7. What is the earliest surviving European poem?
8. Who wrote 'The Hound of the Baskervilles?'
9. Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England) ?
10. Which is an example of a proverb?
11. a description that appeals to one of the five senses
12. 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'?
13. How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
14. The repetition of beginning consonant sounds
15. Where were the pilgrims going in the canterbury tales?
16. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
17. What is a sonnet?
18. How has Stephen Dunn been described in 'the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry?
19. chaucer was imprisoned during…..?
20. Chaucer's franklin was guilty of which sin?
21. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry
22. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?
23. Which represents an example of alliteration?
24. Who wrote about the idyllic 'Isle of Innisfree'?
25. What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?

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