World Literature Quiz #2

Which category of poetry aims to tell stories?

                                                    

                                               

• A. Dramatic Poems

• B. Lyric Poems        

• C. Narrative Poems

• D. Poetic Poems

Which of the following is NOT a characteristics of poetry?

           

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• A. It is less concentrated than prose.  

•  B. It makes use of brevity and conciseness.

• C. It makes use of language that is metaphorical or symbolic, not direct.

• D. It is musical, melodic, and rhythmical.

Which element of poetry refers to the literal representation of an experience or object that is perceived through the senses?

                                                                 

                                          

• A. Imagery

• B. Figurative Language

• C. Persona

•  D. Sound

Haikus are classified under what category of poetry?

                                                    

                                        

• A. Dramatic Poems

• B. Lyric Poems     

• C. Narrative poems

•    D. Poetic Poems

What is the rhyme scheme in Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 14”?

      And yet me think I have astronomy.          Of plaques, of deaths, or seasons’ quality.

     But not to tell of good or evil luck.             Not from the stars do I my judgment plunk.

                                                                 

                                                                

• A. AABB 

• B. ABBA   

• C. ABAB

• D. ABCD

What figure of speech is employed in the following line?

       “…cold, collecting, calculating, crowd…”

                                                          

                                                   

 

• A. Alliteration  

• B. Onomatopoeia    

• C. Oxymoron

• D. Personification

The chief minister reluctantly performed his duties. The underlined word means?

                                                        

                                                             

• A. Carelessness 

• B. Eagerness 

• C. Fear

• D. Unwillingness

Don Quixote was written in which language?

                                                                   

                                                                

• A. Greek 

• B. Italian    

• C. Old English

• D. Spanish

Put the three cantos of “The Divine Comedy” in the correct order.

                                   

                               

 

• A. Inferno, Limbo, Paradiso   

• B. Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso 

• C. Paradiso, Purgatorio, Inferno

• D. Purgatorio, Inferno, Limbo

Rhyme Royal was introduced into English poetry by __________.

                                                 

                                                         

• A. Geoffrey Chaucer 

• B. King James I 

• C. Sir Walter Ralegh

• D. William Shakespeare