The Global Open University 2012-1st Year M.A English Global open University of Modern Literature - Question Paper

29. In his poem Kipling stated 'If you
can meet with triumph and . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . '?
a. Glory
b. Ruin
c. Disaster
d. victory
30. Which of the subsequent is not a
literary device used for aesthetic
effect in poetry?
a. Assonance
b. Onomatopaea
c. Rhyme
d. Grammar
31. actual or false: Writing predates
poetry.
a. actual
b. False
d.a and b
d. none of the above
32. What is the earliest surviving
European poem?
a. The Homeric epic
b. The Gilgamesh epic
c. The Deluge epic
d. The Hesiodic ode
33. Which of the subsequent is not a
poetic tradition?
a. The Epic
b. The Comic
c. The Occult
d. The Tragic
34. What is the study of poetry's
meter and form called?
a. Prosody
b. Potology
c. Rheumatology
d. Scansion
35. Shakespeare composed much of
his plays in what sort of verse?
a. Alliterative verse
b. Sonnet form
c. Iambic pentameter
d. Dactylic hexameter
36. Which poet invented the concept
of the variable foot in poetry?
a. William Carlos Williams
b. Emily Dickinson
c. Gerard Manly Hopkins
d. Robert Frost
37. 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
38. From what century does the
poetic form the folk ballad date?
a. The 12th
b. The 14th
c. The 17th
d. The 19th
39. From which of Shakespeare's
plays is this famous line: 'Did my
heart love til now?/ Forswear it,
sight/ For I never saw a actual beauty
until this night'
a. A Midsummer Night's Dream
b. Hamlet
c. Othello
d. Romeo and Juliet
40. What is a poem called whose
first letters of every line spell out a
word?
a. Alliterative
b. Epic
c. Acrostic
d. Haiku
41. Auld Lang Syne is a famous
poem by whom?
a. Sir Walter Scott
b. William Butler Yeats
c. Henry Longfellow
d. Robert Burns
42. How has Stephen Dunn been

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