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‘I wandered Lonely as a cloud’ is an example of____
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- Simile
Who wrote ‘An Apology for Poetry’?
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- Sir Philip Sidney
Who is called the poet of poets?
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- Edmund Spenser
Shakespeare was famous for all but one of the following ___
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- Bourgeois Drama
A great playwright of Shakespeare time was ____
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- Christopher Marlowe
Who is considered to be the father of English prose?
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- Francis Bacon
Which phrase means so miserable that it cannot be described in words?
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- beggars description
Trying unitedly we were able to have our project approved against strong oppositions. – Which of the following says nearly the same as ‘against’?
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- in the teeth of
In the sentence, what does in cold blood mean?
Not many people can commit such a heinous crime in cold blood.
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- deliberately and without emotion
William Shakespeare was a famous ____ century English Playwright.
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- sixteenth
In the sentence, what does turn over a new leaf mean?
After failing the exam, he decided to turn over a new leaf and study every day.
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- make a fresh start
‘The Merchant of Venice’ is a drama by ____
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- William Shakespeare
In what year did Shakespeare die?
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- 1616 AD
William Shakespeare is a famous ____
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- dramatist
Who wrote ‘Patriotism’?
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- Sir Walter Scott
London town is found a living being in the work of ____
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- Charles Dickens
‘David Copperfield’ is a / an ____ novel.
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- Victorian
Who is William Hazlitt?
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- Essayist
‘The waves beside them danced'(from ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’) is an example of ____
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- personification
The central idea of ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ is that _____
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- we can find solace in nature