1) Which of the following poems are not written by the Romantic poets?
a) To the Skylark b) Ode to a Nightingale c) Hope is the thing with feathers d) Crow and the Birds
The correct options are (c) and (d). Emily Dickinson is an American poet with echoes of transcendentalism, and Ted Hughes is a twentieth century poet.
2)A sestet is made of...a) six lines. b) two tercets c) a quatrain and a couplet without a specific rhyme scheme d) is often used by Shakespeare in his sonnets. Which of the four options is not valid/true?
The correct option is (d). A Shakespearean Sonnet is made of three quatrains and a couplet with a defined rhyme pattern.
3) Nursery rhymes make a brilliant use of the poetic 'foot'. "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" uses a) an iabmic pentameter b) an anapest c) a tetrameter spondee mostly d) a trochaic trimeter line ending with an extra stressed syllable
The correct option is (d).
Pratima Agnihotri Pune
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