(The Lyric, The Elegy, The Ode, The Sonnet)
1. "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" ... said by ......
1) ST Coleridge 2) John Milton 3) William Wordsworth 4) Matthew Arnold
Ans: 3(William Wordsworth)
2. The sonnet series "Amoretti" was written by?
1) Sydney 2) Spenser 3) Samuel Daniel 4) Shakespeare
Ans: 2(Spenser)
3. Shelly wrote a Pastoral elegy on the death of Keats. The title of the elegy is ......
1) Lycides 2) Endymion 3) Adonais 4) Thyrsis
Ans: 3(Adonais)
4. Strophe, Ante-Strophe and Epode are .....
1) They are the beginning, middle and the end of Pindaric Ode.
2) They are the three stages of movement of the singers of the Pindaric Ode.
3) They are the three stages of movement of the Horatian Ode.
4) They are the names assigned to the singers of the Pindaric Ode.
Ans: 2(They are the three stages of movement of the singers of the Pindaric Ode.)
5. 'Rugby Chapel' is the mourning song of Arnold on the death of .......
1) His father 2) His friend AH Clough
3) His fellow poet Robert Browning 4) His wife
Ans: 1(His father)
6. A non - serious elegy written on the death of a mad dog was .......
1) Collins 2) Gray 3) Goldsmith 4) Couper
Ans: 3(Goldsmith)
7. 'If winter comes, can spring be far behind?' The famous line from ......
1) Ode on Grecian Urn 2) Ode to the West Wind
3) The Cloud 4) Ode on a Nightingale
Ans: 2(Ode to the West Wind)
8. The first eight lines of a Petrarchan sonnet are called ........
1) Octagon 2) Octosave 3) Octopes 4) Octave
Ans: 4(Octave)
