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For the poetry buffs

By US Desk
Fri, 04, 22

For the poetry buffs

QUIZ WHIZ

1. What is the longest Old English poem?

A. Beowulf

B. Songs of Innocence

C. Spoon River Anthology

D. Layamon

2. Who is the author of “Ozymandias”?

A. Mary Shelley

B. John Keats

C. Percy Bysshe Shelley

D. William Wordsworth

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3. How many lines does a sonnet have?

A. 16

B. 18

C. 12

D. 14

4. What are the first eight lines of a sonnet called?

A. Octopus

B. Octet

C. Octane

D. Octave

5. Who wrote a famed poem about the Crimean War?

A. Alfred Douglas

B. Alfred Lord Tennyson

C. Alfred E. Neuman

D. Oscar Wilde

6. In poetry, the word “foot” refers to:

A. A unit of 12 lines

B. A dozen poems

C. Two or more syllables

D. One stanza

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7. A poem in which the first letters of each line spell a word is called:

A. A haiku

B. An acrostic

C. An ode

D. A sestina

8. Which of these poets did not use capital letters in his works?

A. John Donne

B. William Shakespeare

C. E.E. Cummings

D. Robert Browning

9. Which poet used his own poem “Requiem” for the epitaph on his gravestone?

A. Paul Dunbar

B. William Cullent Bryant

C. Wallace Stevens

D. Robert Louis Stevenson

10. In “Convergence of the Twain”, what deadly ship disaster was Thomas Hardy describing when he said, ‘And as the smart ship grew in stature, grace, and hue in shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too’?

A. Hindenburg

B. Titanic

C. USS Arizona

D. Lusitania

11. Which poet was described as “mad, bad and dangerous to know”?

A. Christopher Marlowe

B. Lord Tennyson

C. Samuel Coleridge

D. Lord Byron

12. Which South American poet won the Nobel Prize in Literature?

A. Mario Benedetti

B. Gabriela Mistral

C. Rubén Darío

D. Jorge Luis Borges