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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English) .
| 1. |
A lengthy poem in the form of an address to a person or an entity is called____ |
| A. | lyric |
| B. | sonnet |
| C. | ballad |
| D. | ode |
| Answer» D. ode | |
| 2. |
The poetic forms of Haiku and Tanka have originated from ____ |
| A. | india |
| B. | japan |
| C. | korea |
| D. | china |
| Answer» B. japan | |
| 3. |
A Japanese poem that encapsulates a single impression of a natural object or scene. |
| A. | tanka |
| B. | jintishi |
| C. | rubai |
| D. | haiku |
| Answer» D. haiku | |
| 4. |
Homer’s Illiad and Odyssey are examples of _____ |
| A. | lyric poetry |
| B. | dramatic poetry |
| C. | epic poetry |
| D. | satiric poetry |
| Answer» C. epic poetry | |
| 5. |
Which type of poem has an octave and a sestet? |
| A. | ode |
| B. | lyric |
| C. | sonnet |
| D. | tanka |
| Answer» C. sonnet | |
| 6. |
The sonnet was perfected by____ |
| A. | homer |
| B. | petrarch |
| C. | virgil |
| D. | juvenal |
| Answer» B. petrarch | |
| 7. |
The metrical foot that most closely resembles natural English speech is_______ |
| A. | iambic pentametre |
| B. | iambic hexametre |
| C. | trochaic metre |
| D. | dactylic metre |
| Answer» A. iambic pentametre | |
| 8. |
The line ‘Love is not Love’ employs the technique of _________ |
| A. | assonance |
| B. | alliteration |
| C. | hard rhyme |
| D. | soft rhyme |
| Answer» B. alliteration | |
| 9. |
Edward Fitgerald is well known for his translation of _________. |
| A. | omar khayam |
| B. | homer |
| C. | valmiki |
| D. | virgil |
| Answer» A. omar khayam | |
| 10. |
Prosody is the study of __________ |
| A. | prose |
| B. | verse |
| C. | essays |
| D. | novels |
| Answer» B. verse | |
| 11. |
Shakespeare wrote ____ sonnets. |
| A. | 164 |
| B. | 165 |
| C. | 154 |
| D. | 155 |
| Answer» C. 154 | |
| 12. |
In Sonnet 116 Shakespeare personifies ________ |
| A. | love |
| B. | time |
| C. | marriage |
| D. | doom |
| Answer» A. love | |
| 13. |
A sonnet has ________ lines. |
| A. | 10 |
| B. | 12 |
| C. | 14. |
| D. | 16 |
| Answer» C. 14. | |
| 14. |
abab cdcd efef gg is the rhyme scheme for the _______ sonnet. |
| A. | petrarchan |
| B. | spenserian |
| C. | shakespearan |
| D. | wordsworthian |
| Answer» C. shakespearan | |
| 15. |
“Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds” means that — |
| A. | love is a fake romantic illusion |
| B. | what people usually call love is not love |
| C. | true love does not change with circumstance |
| D. | as life progresses, love must be prepared to change |
| Answer» C. true love does not change with circumstance | |
| 16. |
In Sonnet 116, lines 9–12, beginning “Love’s not Time’s fool,” suggest that love — |
| A. | is not deceived my any material wealth |
| B. | cannot last forever |
| C. | outlives the end of youth |
| D. | is strongest when people are young |
| Answer» C. outlives the end of youth | |
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