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Who wrote the collection of poems 'HESPERIDES' that features themes about country life and beauty?
Who wrote the collection of poems 'HESPERIDES' that features themes about country life and beauty?
- Lord Byron
- Robert Herrick (correct)
- George Herbert
- John Milton
Which sonnet is famous for enumerating the reasons for loving Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
Which sonnet is famous for enumerating the reasons for loving Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
- SONNET 44
- SONNET 14
- SONNET 15
- SONNET 43 (correct)
According to the riddle, how many were going to St. Ives?
According to the riddle, how many were going to St. Ives?
- One (correct)
- Nine
- Twenty-three
- Twenty-five
Which novel by E.M. Foster satirizes the manners of middle-class English folk with their provincial class clannishness and prejudices?
Which novel by E.M. Foster satirizes the manners of middle-class English folk with their provincial class clannishness and prejudices?
What object is alluded to in the riddle: 'The man who made it did not want it...'?
What object is alluded to in the riddle: 'The man who made it did not want it...'?
'BARDS OF PASSION AND OF MIRTH' is a poem where John Keats urges these writers to do what?
'BARDS OF PASSION AND OF MIRTH' is a poem where John Keats urges these writers to do what?
Which play do the lines 'Will thou be gone? It is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark' come from?
Which play do the lines 'Will thou be gone? It is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark' come from?
The poem with the line 'DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES. AND I WILL PLEDGE WITH MINE.' is:
The poem with the line 'DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES. AND I WILL PLEDGE WITH MINE.' is:
Who is the author of the poem with the lines 'O is she rosely loved, is she lovely rosed. O is she lovely sung as sea-shells'?
Who is the author of the poem with the lines 'O is she rosely loved, is she lovely rosed. O is she lovely sung as sea-shells'?
Which play contains the lines 'All that glitters is not gold; Often you have heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold'?
Which play contains the lines 'All that glitters is not gold; Often you have heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold'?
The lines 'Have glimpse that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn' are from which poem?
The lines 'Have glimpse that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn' are from which poem?
'These are the times that try men’s souls' is a quote by:
'These are the times that try men’s souls' is a quote by:
Who wrote the novel 'WAR AND PEACE'?
Who wrote the novel 'WAR AND PEACE'?
Who said, 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country'?
Who said, 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country'?
Identify the poem from which the stanza is taken: 'Trust no future, howe’er pleasant Let the dead Past bury its dead!'
Identify the poem from which the stanza is taken: 'Trust no future, howe’er pleasant Let the dead Past bury its dead!'
What does William Norris want you to do in his 'ZIP THE LIP'?
What does William Norris want you to do in his 'ZIP THE LIP'?
Identify the poem from which the lines are taken: 'Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!'
Identify the poem from which the lines are taken: 'Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!'
What figure of speech is used in the lines below? 'His bright eyes rolled, they never seemed to settle. And glittered like the flowers beneath a kettle.'
What figure of speech is used in the lines below? 'His bright eyes rolled, they never seemed to settle. And glittered like the flowers beneath a kettle.'
