Top 50+ Solved Reading Poetry MCQ Questions Answer

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Q. The poetic forms of Haiku and Tanka have originated from ____

a. india

b. japan

c. korea

d. china

  • b. japan

Q. Homer’s Illiad and Odyssey are examples of _____

a. lyric poetry

b. dramatic poetry

c. epic poetry

d. satiric poetry

  • c. epic poetry

Q. Which type of poem has an octave and a sestet?

a. ode

b. lyric

c. sonnet

d. tanka

  • c. sonnet

Q. The sonnet was perfected by____

a. homer

b. petrarch

c. virgil

d. juvenal

  • b. petrarch

Q. The metrical foot that most closely resembles natural English speech is_______

a. iambic pentametre

b. iambic hexametre

c. trochaic metre

d. dactylic metre

  • a. iambic pentametre

Q. The line ‘Love is not Love’ employs the technique of _________

a. assonance

b. alliteration

c. hard rhyme

d. soft rhyme

  • b. alliteration

Q. Edward Fitgerald is well known for his translation of _________.

a. omar khayam

b. homer

c. valmiki

d. virgil

  • a. omar khayam

Q. Prosody is the study of __________

a. prose

b. verse

c. essays

d. novels

  • b. verse

Q. Shakespeare wrote ____ sonnets.

a. 164

b. 165

c. 154

d. 155

  • c. 154

Q. In Sonnet 116 Shakespeare personifies ________

a. love

b. time

c. marriage

d. doom

  • a. love

Q. A sonnet has ________ lines.

a. 10

b. 12

c. 14.

d. 16

  • c. 14.

Q. abab cdcd efef gg is the rhyme scheme for the _______ sonnet.

a. petrarchan

b. spenserian

c. shakespearan

d. wordsworthian

  • c. shakespearan

Q. “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

  • c. true love does not change with circumstance
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