Who is called the ‘Mock heroic poet’ ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. With which text is the term mock-epic most closely associated ?

   A. Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven”
   B. Pope’s Rape of the Lock
   C. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
   D. Benn’s Oroonoko

3. What mock epic begins: “What dire offence from am’rous causes springs, / What mighty contests rise from trivial things” ?

   A. Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe”
   B. Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”
   C. Pope’s “The Dunciad”
   D. Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel”

4. What do you mean by Heroic Couplet ?

   A. a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter
   B. a two line stanza
   C. a poem of lamentation
   D. a song for mourning

5. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’ ?

   A. Tennyson
   B. Browning
   C. Swinburne
   D. D.G. Rossetti

6. Of which poet was it said ’Even if he’s not a great poet, he’s certainly a great something’ ?

   A. Elliot
   B. Kipling
   C. Cummings
   D. Brooke

7. Elizabeth Fey refers to which poet as “a sort of poet-king Arthur” ?

   A. William Wordsworth
   B. William Blake
   C. Lord Byron
   D. Percy Shelley

8. Which Romantic poet would have believed that a poet needs influence from something external and transformative in order to write a strong poem ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   C. Lord Byron
   D. Percy Shelley

9. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
   C. Samuel Johnson
   D. William Wordsworth

10. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

    A. William Blake
    B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
    C. Samuel Johnson
    D. William Wordsworth