Question Bank & Answer Key -READING POETRY

Choose the correct Answer from the bracket.


1. A lengthy poem in the form of an address to a person or an entity is called____

        a. lyric b. sonnet c. ballad d. ode

2. The poetic forms of Haiku and Tanka have originated from ____

        a. India b. Japan c. Korea d. China

3. A Japanese poem that encapsulates a single impression of a natural object or scene.

       a. Tanka b. Jintishi c. Rubai d. Haiku

4. Homer’s Illiad and Odyssey are examples of _____

       a. Lyric Poetry b.Dramatic Poetry c. Epic Poetry d. Satiric Poetry

5. Which type of poem has an octave and a sestet?

        a. Ode b. Lyric c. Sonnet d. Tanka

6. The sonnet was perfected by____

         a. Homer b. Petrarch c. Virgil d.Juvenal

7. The metrical foot that most closely resembles natural English speech is_______

         a. Iambic pentametre b. iambic hexametre c. trochaic metre d. dactylic metre

8. The line ‘Love is not Love’ employs the technique of _________

         a. Assonance b. alliteration c. hard rhyme d. soft rhyme

9. Edward Fitgerald is well known for his translation of _________.

         a. Omar Khayam b. Homer c. Valmiki d. Virgil

10. Prosody is the study of __________

        a. Prose b. verse c. essays d. novels

                  1 d,  2 b, 3 d, 4 c,  5 c,  6 b,  7 a,  8 b,  9 a,  10 b