Top 50+ Solved Reading Poetry MCQ Questions Answer
Q. A lengthy poem in the form of an address to a person or an entity is called____
a. lyric
b. sonnet
c. ballad
d. ode
Q. The poetic forms of Haiku and Tanka have originated from ____
a. india
b. japan
c. korea
d. china
Q. A Japanese poem that encapsulates a single impression of a natural object orscene.
a. tanka
b. jintishi
c. rubai
d. haiku
Q. Homer’s Illiad and Odyssey are examples of _____
a. lyric poetry
b. dramatic poetry
c. epic poetry
d. satiric poetry
Q. The metrical foot that most closely resembles natural English speech is_______
a. iambic pentametre
b. iambic hexametre
c. trochaic metre
d. dactylic metre
Q. The line ‘Love is not Love’ employs the technique of _________
a. assonance
b. alliteration
c. hard rhyme
d. soft rhyme
Q. Edward Fitgerald is well known for his translation of _________.
a. omar khayam
b. homer
c. valmiki
d. virgil
Q. abab cdcd efef gg is the rhyme scheme for the _______ sonnet.
a. petrarchan
b. spenserian
c. shakespearan
d. wordsworthian
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