A. a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter
B. a two line stanza
C. a poem of lamentation
D. a song for mourning
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following best defines the heroic couplet ?
A. Two characters in an epic who are romantically involved
B. Two lines of rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter
C. The concluding lines of any poem
D. Two characters who act as foils in a comedy of manners - There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by – This is a couplet from the Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet ?
A. Metaphor
B. Synecdoche
C. Euphemism
D. Irony - Which of the following poetic lines is an example of a couplet ?
A. “Into my head there will come / a beach of cotton, a dock where from.”
B. “To kiss the sky / to be the sun / is to live forever.”
C. “I heard a car crash / just as I died.”
D. “Death comes for all of us / even you.” - Who is called the ‘Mock heroic poet’ ?
A. Edmund Walter
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Alexander Pope
D. Dr. Samuel Johnson - Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of ?
A. six lectures
B. five lectures
C. four lectures
D. seven lectures - Which Romantic poet would be most likely to feature a main character or narrator in a poem who is heroic, tortured, cynical, highly emotional, and intelligent ?
A. John Keats
B. William Blake
C. Lord Byron
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance ?
A. banishment to Asia
B. everlasting shame
C. conversion to Christianity
D. being buried alive - In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance ?
A. banishment to Asia
B. everlasting shame
C. conversion to Christianity
D. mild melancholia - Let me for a few moments turn your attention to the reservations in the different states of New England, and, with but few exceptions, we shall find them as follows: the most mean, abject, miserable race of beings in the world – a complete place of prodigality and prostitution. What does “prodigality” mean ?
A. Wasteful extravagance
B. Promiscuity
C. Return from the dead
D. Redemption - What do you mean by Diction ?
A. choice of words for writing
B. choice of characters
C. choice of rhythms
D. choice of simile and metaphor
