In his poem, Kipling said 'If you can meet with triumph and __________'?
(A) Glory
(B) Ruin
(C) Disaster
(D) Victory
Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry?
(A) Assonance
(B) Onomatopaea
(C) Rhyme
(D) Grammar
True or False; Writing pedates poetry.
(A) True
(B) False
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
(A) The Homeric epic
(B) The Gilgamesh epic
(C) The Deluge epic
(D) The Hesiodic ode
Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
(A) The EpicT
(B) The Comic
(C) The Occult
(D) The Tragic
Which is the part of the sentence which denotes the person or thing about which something is said?
(A) Predicate
(B) Subject
(C) Phrase
(D) Clauses
What are the study of poetry's meter and form called?
(A) Prosody
(B) Potology
(C) Rheumatology
(D) Scansion
Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
(A) Alliterative verse
(B) Sonnet form
(C) Iambic pentameter
(D) Dactylic hexameter
Who wrote this famous line: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day/Thou art more lovely and more temperate _____"
(A) T S Eliot
(B) Lord Tennyson
(C) Charlotte Bronte
(D) Shakespeare
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
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