A. Lord Byron
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Robert Browning
D. William Wordsworth
Related Mcqs:
- In which work do you read: “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive.” ?
A. Porphyria’s Lover
B. My Last Duchess
C. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
D. Fra Lippo Lippi - Complete the following statement. Chaucer wrote his elegiac poem, “The Book of the Duchess,” to praise the young Duchess of Lancaster who tragically died of___________________?
A. the Black Plague.
B. unrequited love for John of Gaunt.
C. drowning in the Thames.
D. childbirth. - Which of the following features of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” make it classifiable as a Victorian poem ?
A. It has a regular rhyme scheme (aa/bb/cc/dd…), which is sustained throughout the poem.
B. It is primarily a narrative poem.
C. It is concerned with conventional 19thcentury relations between a man and a woman.
D. All of these answers - Staying alive was a difficult task for Elizabethans. Disease, infection, poverty, childbirth, and occupational accidents could all result in one’s untimely demise. Most people never reached the age of fifty. When an Elizabethan died, intricate rituals were followed. What was NOT a funeral custom ?
A. Long processionals
B. Mourning clothes
C. Strict simplicity
D. Tolling of church bells - In “Hamlet,” which character is left alive at the end of the play ?
A. Hamlet
B. Claudius
C. Horatio
D. Gertrude - This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?
A. Alexander Pope
B. William Collins
C. Thomas Gray
D. Ben Jonson - Who painted “The Accommodations of Desire” ?
A. Salvador Dalí
B. Pablo Picasso
C. Juan Miró
D. Man Ray - Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the____________?
A. troubadour
B. skald
C. chorister
D. bard - Who wrote Mending wall ?
A. Carl Sanburg
B. T.S. Eliot
C. E.e cummings
D. Robert Lee Forst - Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the______________?
A. troubadour
B. skald
C. chorister
D. bard
