1. ………… is a literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and
unstressed syllables, particularly in verse form.
Correct : B. rhythm
2. ………. is a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse, or within the lines of a poem.
Correct : A. metre
3. A ………….is a repetition of similar sounding words, occurring at the end of lines in poems or
songs
Correct : B. rhyme
4. ………….is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant
sound, occur close together in a series.
Correct : D. alliteration
5. “Men sell the wedding bells.” is an example of ……….
Correct : C. assonance
6. Diction can be defined as style of speaking or writing, determined by the choice of words by
a speaker or a writer
Correct : C. diction
7. The figure of speech that uses to compare two distinctly different things is indicated by words
“like” and “as”
Correct : B. simile
8. What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing is another?
Correct : B. metaphor
9. What figurative language is used in the given sentence?
“The boy was as fast as a rocket as he sped on his bicycle”
Correct : A. simile
10. ………..is a figure of speech that attributes human qualities to that which is non – human.
Correct : C. personification
11. …………is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.
Correct : D. oxymoron
12. Name of the figure of speech in which a thing or concept is replaced by the name of something
closely associated with the same thing or concept
Correct : B. metonymy
13. …………………..is a type of metonymy in which a part of something represents the whole, or it
may use a whole to represent a part.
Correct : C. synecdoche
14. What is the literary device which use as a modifier (usually an adjective ) qualifies a noun other
than the person or thing it is actually describing ?
Correct : D. transferred epithet
15. The poetic form that is written today is defined as a short poem expressing the thoughts and
feelings of a single speaker
Correct : C. lyric
16. “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W B Yeats is a …………….poem.
Correct : A. lyric
17. . In ………….the poets praise people, natural scenes, and abstract ideas.
Correct : D. ode
18. A………. has 14 lines, and is written in iambic pentameter.
Correct : A. sonnet
19. …………is a literary device that can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in
a verse, and has the same meter to form a complete thought.
Correct : B. couplet
20. A poetic form in which a person is speaking to himself or to an imaginary listener dramatically to
reveal specific intentions of his actions.
Correct : C. dramatic monologue
21. he poem that tells a story is called…….
Correct : D. narrative poetry
22. Poetry that has no regular rhythm, metre, rhyme and structure.
Correct : D. free verse
23. Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Correct : C. blank verse
24. Japanese poem with 5-7-5 syllables
Correct : B. haiku
25. A type of literature that exposes and criticizes foolishness and corruption of an individual or a
society, by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule.
Correct : A. satire
26. The ………….is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line originated
in Japan in 7th century
Correct : C. tanka
27. …………….. is a Persian verse form in the stanzaic structure of a quatrain.
Correct : C. rubai
28. The…………… is a highly structured poem made up of five tercets (three line stanza) followed
by a quatrain, with two repeating rhymes and two refrains.
Correct : A. villanelle
29. Which among the following is an example for Performing Poetry?
Correct : D. dover beach
30. In the poem “Shall I compare Thee to a Summer’s Day”, “eye of heaven” refers to
Correct : B. sun
31. The bronze statue of Neptune in My Last Duchess is taming a __________.
Correct : B. sea-horse
32. John Donne belongs to the __________ school of poetry
Correct : A. metaphysical
33. In A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, “twin compasses” are compared to _________.
Correct : B. lovers
34. ______________ is not one of the gifts given by the knight to the mysterious young woman in Keats’
La Belle Dame Sans Merci.
Correct : A. honey wild
35. “Shall I compare Thee to a Summer’s Day ” is the ___th sonnet of Shakespeare's collection of 154
sonnets.
Correct : D. 18
36. The poem “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” immortalizes ________.
Correct : C. the young man
37. Cohen’s “I am your Man” conveys the speaker’s ____________.
Correct : A. desperateness
38. _________ gives a reply to the speaker within the poem in Milton’s “When I consider how my light is
spent”
Correct : B. patience
39. Who is “alone and palely loitering” in “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”?
Correct : C. knight
40. The mysterious lady’s eyes in La Belle Dame Sans Merci are described as ____.
Correct : D. wild
41. ‘Spirit’ in Ode to a Skylark refers to
Correct : A. skylark
42. “Do not go gentle into that good night” is a ____________.
Correct : C. villanelle
43. “Do not go gentle into that good night” is a plea to the poet’s _______.
Correct : C. father
44. Whose frail deeds dance in a ‘green bay’ in Do not go Gentle into that good night?
Correct : B. good men
45. Who sees with ‘blinding sight’ in Do not go gentle into that good night?
Correct : D. grave men
46. ‘I have walked through many lives’ is a line of ____ poem.
Correct : C. the layers
47. Pope’s “Essay on Man” was published in __________.
Correct : A. 1733-1734
48. Donne wrote A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning when he left to _____ leaving his wife behind.
Correct : B. france
49. Who was ‘Too easily impressed’ in Browning’s “My Last Duchess”?
Correct : C. the last duchess
50. Fra Pandolf is the ______ in My Last Duchess. A) the painter B) the envoy C) the servant D) the duke
55) Who is the he in “He disappeared in the dead of winter” in Auden’s elegy.
Correct : A. w.h.auden
51. The line “This hour a slave, the next a deity” belongs to which of the following poems?
Correct : D. essay on man
52. Pick out the phrase that is symbolic of the physical act of lovemaking in the poem “I am your Man”
Correct : A. dog in heat
53. “When I consider how my light was spent” is a _______.
Correct : A. sonnet
54. __________ is a poem that was inspired after the poet took a country walk in Italy along with his
second wife.
Correct : B. ode to a skylark
55. The phrase ‘good night’ in Dylan’s poem refers to _______.
Correct : C. death
56. “In Memory of W.B.Yeats” by W.H. Auden is a _________.
Correct : C. elegy
57. “I am Your Man” was first released in ________.
Correct : B. 1988
58. “My Last Duchess” is a _____________.
Correct : A. dramatic monologue
59. “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” was first published in ________.
Correct : D. 1633
60. “When I consider how my light is spent” is also known as _________.
Correct : C. sonnet 19
61. “Ode to a Skylark” is a poem by ________.
Correct : D. p.b.shelley
62. _________ is a poetic recreation of the story of Alphonso II, Duke of Ferrara (1523).
Correct : A. my last duchess
63. _____________ is a poem that was written by the poet in order to comfort his wife while he was
away in France, while she remained in England.
Correct : D. a valediction: forbidding mourning
64. The two lovers compared to the two legs of compass is an example of ________.
Correct : B. metaphysical conceit
65. ________ is a poem that portrays a quest for identity.
Correct : B. the layers
66. Who wrote the poem Childhood?
Correct : B. rainer maria rilke
67. Who wrote the book The Book of Hours?
Correct : A. rainer maria rilke
68. Who wrote Sonnets to Orpheus?
Correct : D. rainer maria rilke
69. Who wrote the Duino Elegies?
Correct : C. rainer maria rilke
70. Who wrote the poem Tonight I can Write the Saddest Lines?
Correct : A. pablo neruda
71. Who was the first recipient of Nobel Prize for Literature from a Latin American country?
Correct : C. pablo neruda
72. Who wrote The Heights of Macchu Picchu?
Correct : D. pablo neruda
73. Who wrote Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair?
Correct : B. pablo neruda
74. Who wrote the poem Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison?
Correct : B. nazim hikmet
75. Who wrote The Day Before Tomorrow?
Correct : D. nazim hikmet
76. Who wrote Moscow Symphony?
Correct : A. nazim hikmet
77. Who wrote Things I Didn't Know I Loved?
Correct : C. nazim hikmet
78. Who wrote "I Come and Stand at Everyone's Door"?
Correct : D. nazim hikmet
79. Who wrote the poem Mother to Son?
Correct : B. langston hughes
80. Who wrote The Negro Speaks of Rivers?
Correct : A. langston hughes
81. Who wrote The Weary Blues?
Correct : D. langston hughes
82. Who wrote Fine Clothes for the Jews?
Correct : C. langston hughes
83. Who wrote Montage of a Dream Deferred?
Correct : A. langston hughes
84. Who wrote the essay The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain?
Correct : D. langston hughes
85. Who wrote the poem Stonemasons, My Father and Me?
Correct : B. namdeo laxman dhasal
86. Who wrote the poem Without Title?
Correct : C. diane glancy
87. Who wrote the poem Anniversaries of War?
Correct : A. yehuda amichai
88. Who wrote the poem Be Drunk?
Correct : B. charles baudelaire
89. Who wrote the poem Landscape of the Capibaribe River?
Correct : D. joao cabral de melo neto
90. Who wrote the poem Homeward?
Correct : B. bassey ikpi
91. Who wrote I'm Telling the Truth But I'm Lying?
Correct : A. bassey ikpi
92. Who wrote the novel Not of This Time Not of This Place?