A. A traditional form with repeated consonant sounds
B. An Anglo-Saxon form written in iambic pentameter with traditional rhymes
C. A popular form in the 9th and 10th centuries
D. A form brought to England in the years during the Norman invasion
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following lines provides an example of alliterative verse ?
A. “The knight took a step toward/The maiden she called him forward”
B. “her biginneth the earste boc of ures ant ureisuns the gode beoth to seggen”
C. “doughty in theire doings and dredde ay schame”
D. “I left my lands to come where you are/To find you I have come so far!” - Which of the following texts are associated with the alliterative revival ?
A. “The Dream of the Rood”
B. “The Wanderer”
C. “The Seafarer”
D. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” - Why was the alliterative revival associated with nationalism and nostalgia ?
A. The stories of King Arthur made all English people nostalgic.
B. Metrical poetry simply got boring.
C. Alliterative poetry was much easier to write.
D. Alliterative poetry was associated with a world before the French influence, a world before the Conquest - What led to the alliterative revival ?
A. A return to reading poetry from the 11th and 12th centuries
B. The influence of southern courtly poets writing in French and Latin
C. A surge in English nationalism
D. The introduction to new poetic forms during the Norman invasion - In verse, “meter” refers to which of the following ?
A. The length of a written line
B. The measured pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
C. The height of the stage
D. The number of words in a line - Blank verse refers to which of the following ?
A. Prose
B. Unrhymed iambic pentameter
C. Rhyming verse
D. Rhyming couplets - What is the verse form of Marie de France’s Lanval ?
A. Dactylic pentameter
B. Octosyllabic couplets
C. Heroic couplets
D. Clerihew - Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry ?
A. Sir Thomas Wyatt
B. William Shakespeare
C. Earl of Surrey
D. Milton - 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 - 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 aboveSubmitted by: Lubna shahzadi
