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What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor ?
A. No difference. Simply two different ways in referring to the same thing.
B. A simile is more descriptive.
C. A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesn’t.
D. A simile must use animals in the comparison.
“Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe,With loss of Eden.” This is an extract from ?
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Divorce Tracts
Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books ?
A. The Poor Man and the Lady
B. The Return of Native
C. Chollttee
D. None of the above
Why did ’Poetry Quarterly’ cease publication in 1953 ?
A. Owner convicted of fraud
B. Fall in Sales
C. Rise in taxation on magazines
D. Shortage of paper
Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England) ?
A. Victor Hugo
B. Alexander Pope
C. John Milton
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas ?
A. Hindu
B. Celtic
C. Arabic
D. Arameic
William Shakespeare was born in the year_______________?
A. 1564
B. 1544
C. 1578
D. 1582
What is the word for a “play on words” ?
A. pun
B. simile
C. haiku
D. metaphor
Where were the pilgrims going in the Canterbury tales ?
A. To the shrine of st. Peter at Canterbury cathedral
B. To the shrine of saint thomas becket at canterbury cathedral
C. both A and B
D. None of these
What is the study of poetry’s meter and form called ?
A. Prosody
B. Potology
C. Rheumatology
D. Scansion
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