Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Which poetry represents an extended meditative poem in which the speaker reflects on death?

• Ballad 
• Narrative Poetry 
• Elegy
• Sonnets

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An elegy is considered as a-

• Humorous poetry
• Depressing poetry
• Angry poetry
• Motivated poetry

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Type of  events that this poetry can be displayed at are-

• Funerals
• Weddings
• Graduations
• Births

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Where did Elegy origin ?

• Italy
• France
• Spain
• Greece

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Elegiac poetry is about:

• Celebrating life.
• Mourning loss, and death
• The beauty of nature
• The grotesque and horrible

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In the mid- 1700s who was the first British poet that wrote and elegy

• Thomas Gray
• Thomas Wyatt
• William Shakespeare
• Thomas Hardy

An elegy has a tone of remorse whereas the eulogy has a tone of_______.

• Sorrow
• Dread
• Solace
• Respect

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Mostly Elegy poems are written in ________?

• Couplets
• Sonnets
• Ballad
• Quatrains

What is the rhyme scheme for
"In Memory of W. B. Yeats" by W. H. Auden?

• AABB
• ABAB
• ABCD
• AABC

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What words show that this is a sad, depressing poem?

• honoured guest
• vessel lie
• distress, laid to rest
• fountain start

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