Poetry Basics
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Poetry Basics
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1. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
2. Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
3. From which language the name 'chaucer' has been driven?
4. True or false: Writing predates poetry.
5. 'The Cambridge school' refers to a group who emerged when?
6. Concentrate on these elements when writing a good poem.
7. From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?
8. Applying human qualities to non-human things
9. Which American writer published 'A brave and startling truth' in 1996
10. Which is an exaggeration?
11. Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
12. Of which poet was it said 'Even if he's not a great poet, he's certainly a great something'?
13. Who wrote 'Ten Little Niggers?'
14. What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?
15. Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?
16. Which poem ends 'I shall but love thee better after death'?
17. Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books?
18. Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?
19. Who wrote about the idyllic 'Isle of Innisfree'?
20. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
21. In coleridge's poem 'The rime of the Ancient Mariner'where were the three gallants going?
22. 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'
23. Chaucer's franklin was guilty of which sin?
24. Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom?
25. Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry?