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Read the following multiple-choice questions on English poetry. Choose the most appropriate item
(a, b, c, or, d) and then mark it on your answer sheet.
1. 'He claps the crag with crooked hands'. The above line used alliteration because of …..
a. He
b. crooked
c. crag
d. both crag and crooked
2. “He watched from his mountain walls / And like a thunder-bolt he falls.” / A. L. Tennyson (18691892) The above lines are examples of the use of …………
a. personification
b. natural trait
c. modernism
d. poetic drama
3. “He thought he'd ’list, perhaps,’/ …” Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) in The Man He killed
The above line is about a(n)…….
a. foe
b. inn-man
c. unemployed soldier
d. half-man killed
4. “It is not growing like a tree / In bulk, doth make man better be;” The above lines point to …….
a. man’s perfection
b. classicists’ antagonism
c. delicate personification
d. complex poetic focus
5. “In small proportions we just beauties see;” The above line by Ben Jonson points to…….
a. ignorance
b. Justice purred
c. purifying quality
d. perfect criteria
6. “I am not cruel, only truthful / The eye of a little god, four-cornered.” Sylvia Plath (1932-1963).
The speaker of the above lines signals to …………
a. a great white wall
b. four-cornered mirror
c. real reflecting sea
d. four-cornered reflection
7. “I see her back, and reflect it faithfully / She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.”
Sylvia Plath (1932- 1963)
The agent of the above utterance is illustrating …………
a. rewarding
b. the faithless
c. unfaithfulness
d. the process of reflecting
8. “Whenever Richard Cory went down town, / We people on the pavement looked at him: / He was a
gentleman from sole to crown,” E. Arlington Robinson (1869- 1935). The speaker of the above
lines starts a(n) ………..
a. narration
b. personification
c. associative pun
d. poetic placement
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9. He was: “Clean favored, and imperially slim.” “Clean favored” in the above line of Richard Cory
should mean …………
a. desirous
b. good-looking
c. unusual
d. friendly familiar
10. “Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach” Robert Browning (1812- 1889) In the above line we
see ……..
a. an image
b. one image
c. two images only
d. three images
11. “I took the one less traveled by / And that has made all the difference” The above lines of The
Road Not Taken by Robert Frost should also mean …………..
a. the untravelled road chosen
b. taking one less different
c. less different made travel
d. the choice was traveled one
12. “That led me to the wild of Passion, which / Some call the wold” The speaker in the above lines
of The pilgrimage hints at …………
a. The rock of pride
b. the Christ’s church
c. a wasted place but sometimes rich
d. the anti-Christ’s church
13. “After so foul a journey death is fair / And but a chair.” The same speaker in the above lines
should also mean …………..
a. journey is wasted
b. chair is foul
c. he has eventually a chair
d. death appears to be a moving cart
.
14. “The way a crow / Shook down on me / The dust of snow / From a hemlock tree / Has given my
heart / A change mood / And saved some part / Of a day I had rued.” Dust of snow, Robert Frost
(1874- 1963) Hemlock in the fourth line should stand for a …………..
a. literal meaning
b. cultural viewpoint
c. figurative meaning
d. denotative meaning
15. “Rued” in the last line of the above piece of poetry should mean ………..
a. grieved
b. unrepentant
c. cheerfully joyed
d. gladly pleased
16. “I asked the soft snow with me to play;” (Soft Snow) You have both ………. and ….. in the above
line.
a. pun / symbol
b. figure / conceit
c. allusion / Humor
d. personification / nature
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17. It is well assessed and expressed that poetry is as ……….. as ………..
a. aged / man
b. ancient / language
c. primitive / cosmos
d. universal / understanding
18. It is realistically asserted and repeated that ……….
a. man succeeded at appreciating poetry
b. man succeeded at defining poetry
c. man appreciated provisionally poetry
d. poetry has appreciated poetry successfully
19. It might be fair enough to say that there is a(n) ……….. in the use of language between its poetic
and ordinary practice.
a. greatness
b. extent of words
c. difference
d. indifference
20. "... remember not / The hand that writ it, for I love you so" Shakespeare, in the above lines,
uses……….
a. synecdoche
b. naturalism
c. rehearsals
d. symbolism
21. “No longer mourn for me when I am dead / Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell.” In the
above lines from Shakespeare’s sonnet ……….. is used.
a. love
b. metonymy
c. allegory
d. apostrophe
22. “Lest the wise world should look into your moan / And mock you with me after I am gone.” The
speaker in the above lines from sonnet 71 uses complete ……… tone.
a. ironical
b. Bensonian
c. Ciceronian
d. eclectical
23. “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall / Looking as if she were alive.” Robert Browning
(1812-1889) The above speaker of the lines is talking about ………..
a. a painted wall
b. her alive wall
c. the dead lady
d. the alive beloved
24. “… She had / A heart–how shall I say?–Too soon made glad, / Too easily impressed; ...” The
speaker pictures a lady who is very ………
a. flimsy
b. serious
c. weighty
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d. penetrating
25. “… as if she ranked / My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name / with anybody’s gift.” The above
lines from My Last Duchess by Robert Browning allude to ………
a. similarity
b. similar time roots
c. gift of old names
d. long rooted family dignity
26. “Fare you well, for ill fare I: / Live, lads, and I will die.” The above lines somehow allude to
……..
a. honeyed comrades
b. communists
c. freedom despots
d. Jesus of Nethereth, the carpenter
27. “If this be error and upon me proved / I never writ, nor no man ever loved.” The above two lines
from Shakespeare’s sonnet No. 116 signals to ………..
a. minds
b. brief hours
c. live as fixed mark
d. bending time and passing images
28. “My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears / And true plain hearts do in the faces rest.” John
Donne (1572- 1631) The speaker of the above lines is talking about ………
a. how true love works
b. God’s mercies
c. how eyes talk to faces
d. how faces rest in eyes
29. “And in me claim no more authority.” The speaker in the quoted line from Farewell, Love is
actually denying……….
a. more authority
b. any claim
c. no more authority
d. being influenced by love
30. “Me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb.” the meaning of the cited line from Farewell, Love
should also be ……….
a. I do not look to lose any longer.
b. I desire no more and no longer.
c. to me climbing is no longer possible.
d. to me no longer is lost any claim.
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