What is 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
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
A. William Carlos Williams
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Gerard Manley Hopkins
D. Robert Frost
Who wrote this famous line: ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate…’
A. TS Eliot
B. Lord Tennyson
C. Charlotte Bronte
D. Shakespeare
From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?
A. The 12th
B. The 14th
C. The 17th
D. The 19th
From which of Shakespeare’s plays is this famous line: ‘Did my heart love till now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw true beauty until this night’
A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B. Hamlet
C. Othello
D. Romeo and Juliet
What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
A. Alliterative
B. Epic
C. Acrostic
D. Haiku
Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom?
A. Sir Walter Scott
B. William Butler Yeats
C. Henry Longfellow
D. Robert Burns
How has Stephen Dunn been described in ‘The Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry’?
A. A poet of middleness
B. Capturing a sense of spiritual marooness
C. One of the leading prairie poets
D. Has some distinction as a critic
‘The Cambridge School’ refers to a group who emerged when?
A. The 1900s
B. The 1960s
C. The 1920s
D. The 1930s