1. Which poem ends 'I shall but love thee better after death'?
a. How do I love thee
b. Ode to a Grecian urn
c. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
d. Let me not to the marriage of true minds
2. Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
a. John keats
b. Lord Byron
c. Solan
d. Sappho
3. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
a. Nature
b. Epics
c. Sonnets
d. Nonsense
4. In coleridge's poem 'The rime of the Ancient Mariner'where were the three gallants going?
a. A funeral
b. A wedding
c. Market
d. To the races
5. Harold Nicholson described which poet as 'Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners'?
a. e. e. Cummings
b. T. S. Elliot
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman
6. What was strange about Emily Dickinson?
a. She rarely left home
b. She wrote in code
c. She never attempted to publish her poetry
d. She wrote her poems in invisible ink
7. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
a. Boer War
b. Second World War
c. Korean War
d. First World War
8. Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
a. Betjeman
b. Hughes
c. Marvel
d. Larkin
9. Which American writer published 'A brave and startling truth' in 1996
a. Robert Hass
b. Jessica Hagdorn
c. Maya Angelou
d. Micheal Palmer
10. Who wrote about the idyllic 'Isle of Innisfree'?
a. Dylan Thomas
b. Ezra Pound
c. W. B. Yeats
d. e. e. cummings
11. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry
rhyme scheme
meter
alliteration
12. The repetition of similar ending sounds
alliteration
onomatopoiea
rhyme
13. Applying human qualities to non-human things
personification
onomatopoeia
alliteration
14. The repetition of beginning consonant sounds
rhyme
onomatopoeia
alliteration
15. A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as
metaphor
simile
personification
16. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as
metaphor
simile
personification
17. Using words or letters to imitate sounds
alliteration
simile
onomatopoeia
18. a description that appeals to one of the five senses
imagery
personification
metaphor
19. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters
lyric
free verse
narrative
20. A poem with no meter or rhyme
lyric
free verse
narrative
21. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme
lyric
free verse
narrative
22. Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
a. Masefield
b. Causley
c. Hughes
d. Larkin
23. Carl Sandburg 'Planked whitefish' contains what kind of imagery?
a. Sea scenes
b. Rural Idyll
c. War
d. Innocent childhood
24. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Paul Dunbar
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman
25. In 1960 'The Colossus' was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
a. Elizabeth Bishop
b. Sylvia Plath
c. Marianne Moore
d. Laura Jackson
a. How do I love thee
b. Ode to a Grecian urn
c. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
d. Let me not to the marriage of true minds
2. Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
a. John keats
b. Lord Byron
c. Solan
d. Sappho
3. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
a. Nature
b. Epics
c. Sonnets
d. Nonsense
4. In coleridge's poem 'The rime of the Ancient Mariner'where were the three gallants going?
a. A funeral
b. A wedding
c. Market
d. To the races
5. Harold Nicholson described which poet as 'Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners'?
a. e. e. Cummings
b. T. S. Elliot
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman
6. What was strange about Emily Dickinson?
a. She rarely left home
b. She wrote in code
c. She never attempted to publish her poetry
d. She wrote her poems in invisible ink
7. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
a. Boer War
b. Second World War
c. Korean War
d. First World War
8. Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
a. Betjeman
b. Hughes
c. Marvel
d. Larkin
9. Which American writer published 'A brave and startling truth' in 1996
a. Robert Hass
b. Jessica Hagdorn
c. Maya Angelou
d. Micheal Palmer
10. Who wrote about the idyllic 'Isle of Innisfree'?
a. Dylan Thomas
b. Ezra Pound
c. W. B. Yeats
d. e. e. cummings
11. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry
rhyme scheme
meter
alliteration
12. The repetition of similar ending sounds
alliteration
onomatopoiea
rhyme
13. Applying human qualities to non-human things
personification
onomatopoeia
alliteration
14. The repetition of beginning consonant sounds
rhyme
onomatopoeia
alliteration
15. A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as
metaphor
simile
personification
16. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as
metaphor
simile
personification
17. Using words or letters to imitate sounds
alliteration
simile
onomatopoeia
18. a description that appeals to one of the five senses
imagery
personification
metaphor
19. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters
lyric
free verse
narrative
20. A poem with no meter or rhyme
lyric
free verse
narrative
21. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme
lyric
free verse
narrative
22. Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
a. Masefield
b. Causley
c. Hughes
d. Larkin
23. Carl Sandburg 'Planked whitefish' contains what kind of imagery?
a. Sea scenes
b. Rural Idyll
c. War
d. Innocent childhood
24. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Paul Dunbar
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman
25. In 1960 'The Colossus' was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
a. Elizabeth Bishop
b. Sylvia Plath
c. Marianne Moore
d. Laura Jackson
https://youtu.be/1yh3XH-rDTk
Explication of Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)- Part 1
Objectives
This module would enable the student to:
- Highlight the significance of the Preface.
-Explicate Wordsworth’s dissatisfaction with eighteenth-century poetry
-Explain the function of poetry as explained by Wordsworth.
-Outline Wordsworth’s originality in proposing his theory of poetry.
-Elucidate the shortcomings of the Preface.
-Analyse Wordsworth’s view of the function of poetry.
Part two:
https://youtu.be/-cloY4joaso
Explication of Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)- Part 1
Objectives
This module would enable the student to:
- Highlight the significance of the Preface.
-Explicate Wordsworth’s dissatisfaction with eighteenth-century poetry
-Explain the function of poetry as explained by Wordsworth.
-Outline Wordsworth’s originality in proposing his theory of poetry.
-Elucidate the shortcomings of the Preface.
-Analyse Wordsworth’s view of the function of poetry.
Part two:
https://youtu.be/-cloY4joaso
YouTube
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Introduction to Biographia Literaria- S.T. Coleridge
Explication of Biographia Literaria- Chapter 4- Part 1
Objectives
This module would enable the student to:
• Understand the age in which Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived.
• Explicate the influences on Coleridge’s literary output.
• Explain Coleridge’s contribution to literature.
• Trace the origin of Coleridge’s critical theory of poetry.
• Frame an estimate of Coleridge as an erudite scholar.
Explication of Biographia Literaria- Chapter 4- Part 1
Objectives
This module would enable the student to:
• Understand the age in which Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived.
• Explicate the influences on Coleridge’s literary output.
• Explain Coleridge’s contribution to literature.
• Trace the origin of Coleridge’s critical theory of poetry.
• Frame an estimate of Coleridge as an erudite scholar.
NTA UGC NET - English
https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109/106/109106124/
Free video course on History of English Literature. Must watch.
NTA UGC NET - English
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An Introduction to 'English Studies in India.'
NTA UGC NET - English
1628583021660.pdf
Research Methods in English - M. P. Sinha
Dryden's dramatization of Paradise Lost is entitled
Anonymous Quiz
27%
All for Love
38%
The State of Innocence
18%
Annus Mirabilis
17%
Religio Medici
How does John Stuart Mill define 'happiness'?
Anonymous Quiz
31%
Doing what one wants to do for the greater good
17%
Leading a fulfilling life
41%
Presence of pleasure and the absence of pain
11%
Virtuous activity
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Which figure of speech is used in the following:
“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
"They covered themselves with dust and glory."
“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
"They covered themselves with dust and glory."
Anonymous Quiz
19%
Zeugma
39%
Parallelism
26%
Aposiopesis
15%
Asyndeton
Which figure of speech is used in the following:
" I came, I saw, I conquered"
"Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?”
" I came, I saw, I conquered"
"Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?”
Anonymous Quiz
22%
Zeugma
32%
Parallelism
29%
Aposiopesis
17%
Asyndeton
Choose the incorrect statement(s) from the options given below :
Anonymous Quiz
14%
a. Phonetics studies speech sounds
11%
b. Phonology studies the sound system of a language
19%
c. Morphology studies morphemes are combined into words
10%
d. Syntax studies the sentence structure of a language
15%
e. Semantics studies meaning
32%
f. None of the above
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