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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?

  • SONNET 44
  • SONNET 14
  • SONNET 15
  • SONNET 43 (correct)
  • 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?

    <p>A ROOM WITH A VIEW</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What object is alluded to in the riddle: 'The man who made it did not want it...'?

    <p>Coffin</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'BARDS OF PASSION AND OF MIRTH' is a poem where John Keats urges these writers to do what?

    <p>To remember their souls in heaven</p> Signup and view all the answers

    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?

    <p>Romeo and Juliet</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The poem with the line 'DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES. AND I WILL PLEDGE WITH MINE.' is:

    <p>Song to Celia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    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'?

    <p>Jose Garcia Villa</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which play contains the lines 'All that glitters is not gold; Often you have heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold'?

    <p>Cymbeline</p> Signup and view all the answers

    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?

    <p>Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'These are the times that try men’s souls' is a quote by:

    <p>Benjamin Franklin</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who wrote the novel 'WAR AND PEACE'?

    <p>Turgenew</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who said, 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country'?

    <p>John F. Kennedy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Identify the poem from which the stanza is taken: 'Trust no future, howe’er pleasant Let the dead Past bury its dead!'

    <p>A PSALM OF LIFE</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does William Norris want you to do in his 'ZIP THE LIP'?

    <p>To observe confidentiality</p> Signup and view all the answers

    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!'

    <p>Ode to the West Wind</p> Signup and view all the answers

    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.'

    <p>Simile</p> Signup and view all the answers

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