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  • 1. Who is the author of the poem 'The Raven'?
A) Robert Frost
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Langston Hughes
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 2. Which of the following poems was written by Sylvia Plath?
A) Daddy
B) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
C) If
D) The Road Not Taken
  • 3. Which poet wrote the famous line 'I wandered lonely as a cloud'?
A) Lord Byron
B) Percy Bysshe Shelley
C) William Wordsworth
D) John Keats
  • 4. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
A) Homer
B) Dante Alighieri
C) John Milton
D) Geoffrey Chaucer
  • 5. Which poet is known for writing 'Leaves of Grass'?
A) Walt Whitman
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Langston Hughes
D) Robert Frost
  • 6. What is the first name of the poet Tennyson?
A) Charles
B) William
C) Edward
D) Alfred
  • 7. Who is often referred to as the 'Bard of Avon'?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Lord Byron
C) Percy Bysshe Shelley
D) John Keats
  • 8. Which poet wrote 'The Waste Land'?
A) T.S. Eliot
B) W.B. Yeats
C) E.E. Cummings
D) Sylvia Plath
  • 9. Which poet is known for his collection 'Songs of Innocence and Experience'?
A) William Blake
B) William Wordsworth
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D) John Keats
  • 10. Who wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) Shakespeare
C) Dante Alighieri
D) John Milton
  • 11. Which poet wrote the poem 'Ode to a Nightingale'?
A) Percy Bysshe Shelley
B) John Keats
C) William Wordsworth
D) Lord Byron
  • 12. Who wrote the sonnet sequence 'Sonnets from the Portuguese'?
A) Christina Rossetti
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
D) Emily Brontë
  • 13. Which poet wrote the poem 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night'?
A) Dylan Thomas
B) Seamus Heaney
C) Pablo Neruda
D) Walt Whitman
  • 14. Who is the author of the poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Robert Frost
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 15. Which poet wrote 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'?
A) William Wordsworth
B) Lord Byron
C) Sylvia Plath
D) Oscar Wilde
  • 16. Who is known for the poem 'Howl'?
A) Robert Frost
B) Allen Ginsberg
C) W.B. Yeats
D) William Blake
  • 17. Which poet wrote 'Ode to the West Wind'?
A) William Wordsworth
B) John Keats
C) Percy Bysshe Shelley
D) Lord Byron
  • 18. Who wrote the poem 'If—'?
A) Rudyard Kipling
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Emily Dickinson
D) Langston Hughes
  • 19. Who wrote 'Jabberwocky'?
A) Shel Silverstein
B) Edward Lear
C) Lewis Carroll
D) A.A. Milne
  • 20. Which poet penned 'The Divine Comedy'?
A) Shakespeare
B) Milton
C) Dante Alighieri
D) Chaucer
  • 21. Who is known for the poem 'Daddy'?
A) Sylvia Plath
B) William Blake
C) William Wordsworth
D) John Keats
  • 22. Which poet wrote 'Dulce et Decorum Est'?
A) Wilfred Owen
B) John McCrae
C) Siegfried Sassoon
D) Rupert Brooke
  • 23. Who wrote 'To His Coy Mistress'?
A) John Donne
B) Ben Jonson
C) Andrew Marvell
D) George Herbert
  • 24. Which poet is known for 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'?
A) William Blake
B) John Keats
C) William Wordsworth
D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • 25. What is the meter of a poem that consists of 5 metrical feet per line?
A) Pentameter
B) Heptameter
C) Hexameter
D) Tetrameter
  • 26. Which of the following is a type of Japanese poetry consisting of three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable structure?
A) Ode
B) Limerick
C) Sonnet
D) Haiku
  • 27. What is the term for a poem that mourns the loss of a loved one?
A) Elegy
B) Ode
C) Haiku
D) Ballad
  • 28. What is the repeating sound at the end of words in a poem called?
A) Assonance
B) Metaphor
C) Rhyme
D) Alliteration
  • 29. What does the term 'stanza' refer to in poetry?
A) The title of the poem
B) A group of lines in a poem
C) The rhythm of the poem
D) The main message of the poem
  • 30. What is the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning?
A) Hyperbole
B) Imagery
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Irony
  • 31. What is the term for a poem that praises or celebrates a person, place, or thing?
A) Ode
B) Limerick
C) Haiku
D) Sonnet
  • 32. In poetry, what is the term for the stressed and unstressed syllable pattern in a line?
A) Rhyme
B) Meter
C) Narrative
D) Theme
  • 33. What is the term for the comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'?
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Personification
D) Alliteration
  • 34. Which poem is famous for beginning with the line 'Once upon a midnight dreary'?
A) The Raven
B) Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
C) To be or not to be
D) The Waste Land
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