Q.
A sonnet has how many lines?
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Explanation:
A sonnet traditionally has 14 lines, in iambic pentameter.
Q.
A Shakespearean sonnet has how many quatrains and a couplet?
1 octave + 1 sestet
2 quatrains + 1 couplet
4 quatrains
3 quatrains + 1 couplet
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Explanation:
The Shakespearean (English) sonnet has three quatrains and a closing couplet (4+4+4+2).
Q.
The Petrarchan sonnet is divided into:
Two sestets
Three quatrains and a couplet
An octave and a sestet
Four tercets
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Explanation:
The Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet has an octave (8 lines) and a sestet (6 lines).
Q.
Blank verse refers to:
Free verse without meter
Rhymed couplets
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Haiku form
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Explanation:
Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter — the meter of Shakespeare's plays and Milton's Paradise Lost.
Q.
An elegy is a poem of:
War
Mourning or lament
Romantic love
Celebration
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Explanation:
An elegy mourns the death of a person or meditates on mortality (e.g., Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard').
Q.
A ballad is a:
Narrative poem often sung
Dramatic monologue
Lyric of three lines
14-line poem
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A ballad is a narrative poem often set to music, with simple language and strong rhythm, typically of folk origin.
Q.
A limerick has how many lines?
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Explanation:
A limerick is a five-line humorous poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme.
Q.
A haiku has how many syllables (traditionally)?
10-10-10
5-7-5
8-8-8
7-5-7
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Explanation:
Haiku is a Japanese form with 5-7-5 syllables in three lines.
Q.
A metaphor that continues throughout an entire poem is called:
Personification
Extended metaphor (conceit)
Simile
Alliteration
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Explanation:
An extended metaphor (or conceit) is a metaphor sustained throughout a poem, popular with Metaphysical poets.
Q.
The repetition of initial consonant sounds is called:
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Consonance
Alliteration
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Explanation:
Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in nearby words (e.g., 'wild and windy').
Q.
The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words is called:
Rhyme
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
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Explanation:
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds (e.g., 'hear the mellow wedding bells').
Q.
'Romeo and Juliet' is classified as a:
Romance
History play
Comedy
Tragedy
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Explanation:
Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's tragedies, written c. 1595.
Q.
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is a:
Tragedy
Comedy
Problem play
History play
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Explanation:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595) is one of Shakespeare's romantic comedies.
Q.
Shakespeare's four great tragedies are Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and:
Julius Caesar
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
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Explanation:
The four great tragedies are Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth.
Q.
'Macbeth' is often called the:
Greek play
Scottish play
Roman play
Danish play
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Explanation:
Macbeth is known as 'the Scottish play' due to theatrical superstition.
Q.
'Hamlet' is set in which country?
Italy
England
Scotland
Denmark
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Explanation:
Hamlet is set in Denmark, in and around Elsinore castle.
Q.
The famous soliloquy 'To be, or not to be' is from:
Macbeth
King Lear
Othello
Hamlet
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Explanation:
It is from Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1.
Q.
Who wrote 'Doctor Faustus'?
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
John Webster
Ben Jonson
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Explanation:
Christopher Marlowe wrote Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), a tragedy about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil.
Q.
The first permanent English theatre was built in London in which year?
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Explanation:
The Theatre, the first permanent English playhouse, was built in 1576 by James Burbage.
Q.
The Globe Theatre was built in:
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Explanation:
The Globe Theatre was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men.
Q.
The Metaphysical Poets were known for:
Elaborate conceits and intellectual wit
Nature imagery only
Simple language
Heroic couplets
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Explanation:
The Metaphysicals (Donne, Herbert, Marvell) used elaborate conceits, intellectual wit, and philosophical themes.
Q.
'The Sun Rising' was written by:
John Donne
Andrew Marvell
John Dryden
George Herbert
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Explanation:
John Donne wrote 'The Sun Rising', a metaphysical poem about lovers rejecting the sun's authority.
Q.
The Restoration comedy is also known as:
Tragicomedy
Comedy of errors
Farce
Comedy of manners
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Explanation:
Restoration comedies (post-1660) are also called 'comedies of manners'.
Q.
Who wrote 'The Rape of the Lock'?
Jonathan Swift
Samuel Johnson
John Dryden
Alexander Pope
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Explanation:
Alexander Pope wrote The Rape of the Lock (1712), a mock-epic about a lock of stolen hair.
Q.
'Waiting for Godot' was written by:
Eugene Ionesco
Tom Stoppard
Samuel Beckett
Harold Pinter
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Explanation:
Samuel Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot (1953), a defining work of the Theatre of the Absurd.