ENGLISH FESTIVAL 2022: QUIZ BOWL

An English poet, painter, and printmaker. A seminal figure in the history of poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.

Who is the father of English Literature?

She was a troubled soul, who ended her own life at a young age. She was married to fellow poet, Ted Hughes.

What is the repetition of a sound or letter at the beginning of multiple words in a series?

An English Novelist known primarily for her six major novels. Plots explore the dependence of women on marriage.

He was a poet, playwright, novelist, music composer, artist, and philosopher. Most well-known work: Gitanjali.

Which of these plays is NOT considered to be one of Shakespeare’s comedies?

An American poet born in Amherst, Massachusetts regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.

What is the paragraph of a poem called?

When was Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” first published?

Which one of the following novels was not written by Charles Dickens?

How many diphthongs are there in the English language?

An ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He wrote the famous epic, Aeneid.

French poet, novelist, and playwright. Notable work: Les Misérables (novel, 1862).

Because I could not stop for death/He kindly stopped for me — who wrote this first line of famous poetry?

An American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Best known for his poetry, short stories and tales of mystery.

What is the oldest document of English literature?

Who is the protagonist of James Joyce’s Ulysses?

In which of these periods did William Shakespeare write his plays?

Which is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?

What is the study of (‘grammatical’) meaning in language?

Put the three cantos of The Divine Comedy in the correct order.

An Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason.

What is the repetition of specific consonant sounds in close proximity?

A Welsh-born Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter.

Departure from reason, focus on nature and the supernatural are all features of the literature of what period?

Who is the author of the book 'Nineteen Eighty Four'?

Who is called the father of English Essays?

How many acts are in Romeo and Jhuliet?

The smallest sense-bearing units of the language are called what?