Appreciating Poetry Multiple Choice Questions
1. ………… is a literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly in verse form.
a. metre
b. rhythm
c. rhyme
d. alliteration
Answer: b. rhythm
2. ………. is a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse, or within the lines of a poem.
a. metre
b. rhythm
c. rhyme
d. alliteration
Answer: a. metre
3. A ………….is a repetition of similar sounding words, occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs
a. metre
b. rhyme
c. alliteration
d. rhythm
Answer: 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.
a. rhythm
b. rhyme
c. metre
d. alliteration
Answer: d. alliteration
5. “Men sell the wedding bells.” is an example of ……….
a. rhyme
b. alliteration
c. assonance
d. diction
Answer: 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
a. alliteration
b. assonance
c. diction
d. metonymy
Answer: c. diction
7. The figure of speech that uses to compare two distinctly different things is indicated by words “like” and “as”
a. metaphor
b. simile
c. metonymy
d. hyperbole
Answer: b. simile
8. What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing is another?
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. metonymy
d. hyperbole
Answer: 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”
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. personification
d. hyperbole
Answer: a. simile
10. ………..is a figure of speech that attributes human qualities to that which is non – human.
a. oxymoron
b. metonymy
c. personification
d. hyperbole
Answer: c. personification
11. …………is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.
a. metonymy
b. personification
c. hyperbole
d. oxymoron
Answer: 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
a. oxymoron
b. metonymy
c. hyperbole
d. personification
Answer: 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.
a. oxymoron
b. transferred epithet
c. synecdoche
d. hyperbole
Answer: 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 ?
a. synecdoche
b. hyperbole
c. oxymoron
d. transferred epithet
Answer: 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
a. ode
b. satire
c. lyric
d. ballad
Answer: c. lyric
16. “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W B Yeats is a …………….poem.
a. lyric
b. ballad
c. sonnet
d. ode
Answer: a. lyric
17. . In ………….the poets praise people, natural scenes, and abstract ideas.
a. ballad
b. lyric
c. sonnet
d. ode
Answer: d. ode
18. A………. has 14 lines, and is written in iambic pentameter.
a. sonnet
b. ode
c. lyric
d. ballad
Answer: 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.
a. lyric
b. couplet
c. ballad
d. sonnet
Answer: 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.
a. narrative poetry
b. free verse
c. dramatic monologue
d. performance poetry
Answer: c. dramatic monologue
21. he poem that tells a story is called…….
a. dramatic monologue
b. haiku
c. free verse
d. narrative poetry
Answer: d. narrative poetry
22. Poetry that has no regular rhythm, metre, rhyme and structure.
a. haiku
b. ode
c. narrative poetry
d. free verse
Answer: d. free verse
23. Unrhymed iambic pentameter
a. cinquain
b. haiku
c. blank verse
d. couplet
Answer: c. blank verse
24. Japanese poem with 5-7-5 syllables
a. jintisha
b. haiku
c. tanka
d. couplet
Answer: 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.
a. satire
b. haiku
c. dramatic monologue
d. ballad
Answer: a. satire
26. The ………….is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line originated in Japan in 7th century
a. haiku
b. jintisha
c. tanka
d. ghazal
Answer: c. tanka
27. …………….. is a Persian verse form in the stanzaic structure of a quatrain.
a. ghazal
b. jintisha
c. rubai
d. haiku
Answer: 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.
a. villanelle
b. haiku
c. tanka
d. rubai
Answer: a. villanelle
29. Which among the following is an example for Performing Poetry?
a. hiroshima
b. piano
c. tyger
d. dover beach
Answer: d. dover beach
30. In the poem “Shall I compare Thee to a Summer’s Day”, “eye of heaven” refers to
a. summer
b. sun
c. death
d. flower bud
Answer: b. sun
31. The bronze statue of Neptune in My Last Duchess is taming a __________.
a. innsbruck
b. sea-horse
c. white mule
d. fair daughter
Answer: b. sea-horse
32. John Donne belongs to the __________ school of poetry
a. metaphysical
b. romantic
c. cavalier
d. modernist
Answer: a. metaphysical
33. In A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, “twin compasses” are compared to _________.
a. soul
b. lovers
c. virtuous men
d. love
Answer: 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.
a. honey wild
b. garlands
c. fragrant zone
d. bracelets
Answer: a. honey wild
35. “Shall I compare Thee to a Summer’s Day ” is the ___th sonnet of Shakespeare’s collection of 154 sonnets.
a. 19
b. 20
c. 17
d. 18
Answer: d. 18
36. The poem “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” immortalizes ________.
a. the poem
b. the poet
c. the young man
d. summer
Answer: c. the young man
37. Cohen’s “I am your Man” conveys the speaker’s ____________.
a. desperateness
b. anger
c. sorrow
d. happiness
Answer: a. desperateness
38. _________ gives a reply to the speaker within the poem in Milton’s “When I consider how my light is spent”
a. time
b. patience
c. light
d. darkness
Answer: b. patience
39. Who is “alone and palely loitering” in “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”?
a. faery
b. child
c. knight
d. king
Answer: c. knight
40. The mysterious lady’s eyes in La Belle Dame Sans Merci are described as ____.
a. light
b. fading
c. moist
d. wild
Answer: d. wild
41. ‘Spirit’ in Ode to a Skylark refers to
a. skylark
b. poet
c. poetry
d. weather
Answer: a. skylark
42. “Do not go gentle into that good night” is a ____________.
a. elegy
b. ode
c. villanelle
d. lyric
Answer: c. villanelle
43. “Do not go gentle into that good night” is a plea to the poet’s _______.
a. lover
b. friend
c. father
d. brother
Answer: c. father
44. Whose frail deeds dance in a ‘green bay’ in Do not go Gentle into that good night?
a. wise men
b. good men
c. wild men
d. grave men
Answer: b. good men
45. Who sees with ‘blinding sight’ in Do not go gentle into that good night?
a. wise men
b. good men
c. wild men
d. grave men
Answer: d. grave men
46. ‘I have walked through many lives’ is a line of ____ poem.
a. i am your man
b. essay on man
c. the layers
d. ode to a skylark
Answer: c. the layers
47. Pope’s “Essay on Man” was published in __________.
a. 1733-1734
b. 1777-1778
c. 1732-1733
d. 1731-1732
Answer: a. 1733-1734
48. Donne wrote A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning when he left to _____ leaving his wife behind.
a. london
b. france
c. australia
d. canada
Answer: b. france
49. Who was ‘Too easily impressed’ in Browning’s “My Last Duchess”?
a. the duke
b. the envoy
c. the last duchess
d. the count’s daughter
Answer: 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.
a. w.h.auden
b. w.b.yeats
c. the speaker
d. poets
Answer: a. w.h.auden
51. The line “This hour a slave, the next a deity” belongs to which of the following poems?
a. in memory of w
b. yeats b) my last duchess
c. ode to a skylark
d. essay on man
Answer: 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”
a. dog in heat
b. here i stand
c. moon’s too bright
d. promises to you
Answer: a. dog in heat
53. “When I consider how my light was spent” is a _______.
a. sonnet
b. lyric
c. ballad
d. ode
Answer: a. sonnet
54. __________ is a poem that was inspired after the poet took a country walk in Italy along with his second wife.
a. la belle dame sans merci
b. ode to a skylark
c. a valediction: forbidding mourning
d. the layers
Answer: b. ode to a skylark
55. The phrase ‘good night’ in Dylan’s poem refers to _______.
a. life
b. love
c. death
d. pain
Answer: c. death
56. “In Memory of W.b.Yeats” by W.H. Auden is a _________.
a. ode
b. sonnet
c. elegy
d. epic
Answer: c. elegy
57. “I am Your Man” was first released in ________.
a. 1989
b. 1988
c. 1987
d. 1990
Answer: b. 1988
58. “My Last Duchess” is a _____________.
a. dramatic monologue
b. satire
c. villanelle
d. ballad
Answer: a. dramatic monologue
59. “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” was first published in ________.
a. 1690
b. 1625
c. 1629
d. 1633
Answer: d. 1633
60. “When I consider how my light is spent” is also known as _________.
a. sonnet 11
b. sonnet 18
c. sonnet 19
d. sonnet 14
Answer: c. sonnet 19
61. “Ode to a Skylark” is a poem by ________.
a. william shakespeare
b. john keats
c. dylan thomas
d. p.b.shelley
Answer: d. p.b.shelley
62. _________ is a poetic recreation of the story of Alphonso II, Duke of Ferrara (1523).
a. my last duchess
b. essay on man
c. the layers
d. ode to a skylark
Answer: 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.
a. la belle dame sans merci
b. the layers
c. i am your man
d. a valediction: forbidding mourning
Answer: d. a valediction: forbidding mourning
64. The two lovers compared to the two legs of compass is an example of ________.
a. imagery
b. metaphysical conceit
c. alliteration
d. enjambment
Answer: b. metaphysical conceit
65. ________ is a poem that portrays a quest for identity.
a. i am your man
b. the layers
c. my last duchess
d. when i consider how my light is spent
Answer: b. the layers
66. Who wrote the poem Childhood?
a. pablo neruda
b. rainer maria rilke
c. nazim hikmet
d. langston hughes
Answer: b. rainer maria rilke
67. Who wrote the book The Book of Hours?
a. rainer maria rilke
b. namdeo laxman dhasal
c. diane glancy
d. yehuda amichai
Answer: a. rainer maria rilke
68. Who wrote Sonnets to Orpheus?
a. diane glancy
b. pablo neruda
c. yehuda amichai
d. rainer maria rilke
Answer: d. rainer maria rilke
69. Who wrote the Duino Elegies?
a. charles baudelaire
b. bassey ikpi
c. rainer maria rilke
d. joao cabral de melo neto
Answer: c. rainer maria rilke
70. Who wrote the poem Tonight I can Write the Saddest Lines?
a. pablo neruda
b. joao cabral de melo neto
c. bassey ikpi
d. yehuda amichai
Answer: a. pablo neruda
71. Who was the first recipient of Nobel Prize for Literature from a Latin American country?
a. rainer maria rilke
b. langston hughes
c. pablo neruda
d. nazim hikmet
Answer: c. pablo neruda
72. Who wrote The Heights of Macchu Picchu?
a. diane glancy
b. bassey ikpi
c. joao cabral de melo neto
d. pablo neruda
Answer: d. pablo neruda
73. Who wrote Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair?
a. langston hughes
b. pablo neruda
c. nazim hikmet
d. yehuda amichai
Answer: b. pablo neruda
74. Who wrote the poem Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison?
a. langston hughes
b. nazim hikmet
c. bassey ikpi
d. pablo neruda
Answer: b. nazim hikmet
75. Who wrote The Day Before Tomorrow?
a. rainer maria rilke
b. yehuda amichai
c. diane glancy
d. nazim hikmet
Answer: d. nazim hikmet
76. Who wrote Moscow Symphony?
a. nazim hikmet
b. pablo neruda
c. charles baudelaire
d. bassey ikpi
Answer: a. nazim hikmet
77. Who wrote Things I Didn’t Know I Loved?
a. charles baudelaire
b. diane glancy
c. nazim hikmet
d. yehuda amichai
Answer: c. nazim hikmet
78. Who wrote “I Come and Stand at Everyone’s Door”?
a. diane glancy
b. bassey ikpi
c. pablo neruda
d. nazim hikmet
Answer: d. nazim hikmet
79. Who wrote the poem Mother to Son?
a. a d hope
b. langston hughes
c. pablo neruda
d. diane glancy
Answer: b. langston hughes
80. Who wrote The Negro Speaks of Rivers?
a. langston hughes
b. gabriel garcía marquez
c. alice walker
d. eugene o’neill
Answer: a. langston hughes
81. Who wrote The Weary Blues?
a. eugene o’neill
b. pablo neruda
c. nazim hikmet
d. langston hughes
Answer: d. langston hughes
82. Who wrote Fine Clothes for the Jews?
a. alice walker
b. yehuda amichai
c. langston hughes
d. nazim hikmet
Answer: c. langston hughes
83. Who wrote Montage of a Dream Deferred?
a. langston hughes
b. carl sandberg
c. pablo neruda
d. alice walker
Answer: a. langston hughes
84. Who wrote the essay The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain?
a. tennessee williams
b. nathaniel hawthorne
c. alice walker
d. langston hughes
Answer: d. langston hughes
85. Who wrote the poem Stonemasons, My Father and Me?
a. kamala das
b. namdeo laxman dhasal
c. nizzim ezekiel
d. a k ramanujan
Answer: b. namdeo laxman dhasal
86. Who wrote the poem Without Title?
a. maya angelou
b. alice walker
c. diane glancy
d. sylvia plath
Answer: c. diane glancy
87. Who wrote the poem Anniversaries of War?
a. yehuda amichai
b. wilfred owen
c. w h auden
d. carl sandberg
Answer: a. yehuda amichai
88. Who wrote the poem Be Drunk?
a. thomas de quincy
b. charles baudelaire
c. john keats
d. leonard cohen
Answer: b. charles baudelaire
89. Who wrote the poem Landscape of the Capibaribe River?
a. carl sandberg
b. langston hughes
c. pablo neruda
d. joao cabral de melo neto
Answer: d. joao cabral de melo neto
90. Who wrote the poem Homeward?
a. chinua achebe
b. bassey ikpi
c. ruskin bond
d. a k ramanujan
Answer: b. bassey ikpi
91. Who wrote I’m Telling the Truth But I’m Lying?
a. bassey ikpi
b. leonard cohen
c. rainer maria rilke
d. diane glancy
Answer: a. bassey ikpi
92. Who wrote the novel Not of This Time Not of This Place?
a. oscar wilde
b. yehuda amichai
c. henry james
d. r k narayan
Answer: b. yehuda amichai
93. Who wrote One Age in a Dream?
a. alice walker
b. maya angelou
c. diane glancy
d. pablo neruda
Answer: c. diane glancy
94. Who wrote Apology to My Unborn?
a. rainer maria rilke
b. bassey ikpi
c. leonard cohen
d. yehuda amichai
Answer: b. bassey ikpi
95. Who coined the term She-donism?
a. virginia woolf
b. alice walker
c. maya angelou
d. diane glancy
Answer: d. diane glancy