The first stanza of the poem provides an idea that it is______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. The tone of the third stanza of the poem embodies a sense of_____________?

   A. Panic
   B. Pain
   C. Calmness
   D. content

2. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’ ?

   A. Rime royal
   B. Ottava rima
   C. Terza rima
   D. Spenserian Stanza

3. The first stanza of John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” begins with what topic(s) ?

   A. A brief summary of “Paradise Lost”
   B. A detailed description of Satan
   C. A detailed description of Milton himself
   D. A and B

4. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as ?

   A. Spenserian Stanza
   B. Ballad
   C. Ottava Rima
   D. Rhyme Royal

5. Which one of the following rhyme scheme is the rhyme scheme Spenserian stanza ?

   A. ab cb bc cd e
   B. abba bccb d
   C. ab bc cd de f
   D. ab ab bc bc c

6. How many lines are in Spenserian stanza ?

   A. 9
   B. 12
   C. 24
   D. 8

7. The first stanza of Countee Cullen’s “A Brown Girl Dead” reads: “With two white roses on her breasts,/White candles at head and feet,/Dark Madonna of the grave she rests;/Lord Death has found her sweet.” Which of the following statements accurately characterizes these lines ?

   A. These lines evoke Christian imagery to emphasize the dignity of the girl who died.
   B. These lines evoke Christian imagery to suggest that death erases racial divisions.
   C. These lines present the problem of racial prejudice in an ironic mode.
   D. Both A and B

8. What do you mean by Stanza ?

   A. a division of drama
   B. a division of novel
   C. a division of story
   D. a subdivision of a poem

9. Complete the following sentence. Keats’s idea of “negative capability” refers to the idea that______________?

   A. certain people are simply incapable of understanding poetry.
   B. the true poet must be comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas.
   C. the poet cannot express anything beyond his own experience.
   D. it is only in the absence of experience that true poetry can emerge.

10. Which of the following images in Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “Eternity” undermines the idea that eternity is something fixed and permanent ?

    A. The image of a sentinel
    B. The image of the sun reflected on the sea
    C. The image of a quest for knowledge
    D. The image of satiny embers