Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry ?

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1. Blank verse refers to which of the following ?

   A. Prose
   B. Unrhymed iambic pentameter
   C. Rhyming verse
   D. Rhyming couplets

2. Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between Georgian poetry and English World War I poetry ?

   A. Georgian poetry was modeled on World War I poetry and adapted its insights to postwar realities.
   B. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with the effects of urbanization and industrialization.
   C. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with women’s rights.
   D. World War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focused on individual experience and avoided writing about the upheavals of modernity.

3. What is blank verse ?

   A. iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets
   B. the verse form of the Shakespearean sonnet
   C. free verse, without rhyme or regular meter
   D. unrhymed iambic pentameter

4. What is the title to Milton’s blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition ?

   A. L’Allegro
   B. Lycidas
   C. Paradise Lost
   D. The Divine Comedy

5. What the term Blank Verse refers_____________?

   A. having no rhyming end
   B. having no rhythmic flow
   C. having no significance
   D. having no blanks in the verse

6. Who was the first to use blank verse ?

   A. Thomas Wyatt
   B. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
   C. Sir Thomas more
   D. None of the above

   Submitted by: Lubna shahzadi

7. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?

   A. Sir Thomas Malory
   B. Geoffrey Chaucer
   C. Caedmon
   D. John Gower

8. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?

   A. Bede
   B. Sir Thomas Malory
   C. Geoffrey Chaucer
   D. Caedmon

9. “When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?

   A. Samson Occcum
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. Mayflower Compact

10. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet ?

    A. P.B. Shelley
    B. Charles Lamb
    C. Hazlitt
    D. Coleridge