A. French
B. Greek
C. Roman
D. German
Related Mcqs:
- Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
A. the heroic couplet
B. blank verse
C. free verse
D. the ode - Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
A. the heroic couplet
B. blank verse
C. free verse
D. the ode - Which of the following represents a stage of development in the poetic form of the elegy ?
A. Lamentation, in which the speaker demonstrates grief
B. Praise and admiration for the dead
C. Consolation and solace
D. All of these - To whom does the Ancient Mariner tell his story in “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” ?
A. Coleridge
B. Dorothy Wordsworth
C. The Wedding Guest
D. Life-in-Death - The pastoral elegy often begins with which of the following poetic conventions ?
A. Invocation of a muse
B. A cry of lament
C. Prayer to the Sun
D. A and B - Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of _______________?
A. Milton
B. Coleridge
C. Keats
D. Johnson - Which one of the following works of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written for Blanche of Lancaster ?
A. The House of Fame
B. The Book of the Duchess
C. Troilus and Criseyde
D. The Legend of Good Women - Matthew Arnold;s Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of______________?
A. Arthur Hallam
B. Milton
C. Edward King
D. Hugh Clough - Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton’s at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem ?
A. lycidas
B. Paradise Lost
C. II penseroso
D. none of the above - ‘Elegy’ is______________________?
A. Historical poem
B. figurative story
C. song of lamentation
D. short story
