A poem that generally has meter and rhyme
A. Lyric
B. Free verse
C. Narrative
D. Epic
Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
A. Masefield
B. Causley
C. Hughes
D. Larkin
Carl Sandburg ‘Planked Whitefish’ contains what kind of imagery?
A. Sea scenes
B. Rural idyll
C. War
D. Innocent childhood
Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Paul Dunbar
C. John Greenleaf Whittier
D. Walt Whitman
In 1960 ‘The Colossus’ was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
A. Elizabeth Bishop
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Marianne Moore
D. Laura Jackson
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. Onomatopoeia
C. Rhyme
D. Grammar
True or false: Writing predates poetry.
A. True
B. False
C. Not proven
D. Depends on culture
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 Epic
B. The Comic
C. The Occult
D. The Tragic