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