English Literature Mcqs — Test 71

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Question 1

Who wrote ’The Winter’s Tale ?’

Question 2

Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry ?

Question 3

From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date ?

Question 4

What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word ?

Question 5

’The Cambridge school’ refers to a group who emerged when ?

Question 6

Sylvia Plath married which English poet ?

Question 7

Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819 ?

Question 8

In his poem Kipling said ’If you can meet with triumph and _____________’?

Question 9

Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with ?

Question 10

Harold Nicholson described which poet as ’Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners’ ?