General English - Literature Appreciation Questions from Poetry
Exam Duration: 60 Mins Total Questions : 30
"Learn to labor and to wait"
Message for the youth in this lines is to learn to work
- (a)
family members
- (b)
relatives
- (c)
very close people
- (d)
A & B
"You blossomed into a nascent loveliness"
'you' refers to
- (a)
kananada
- (b)
English
- (c)
French
- (d)
Hindi
"O tongues of fire! you came devouring forests of nightshade, creepers that enmesh" Here devouring means
- (a)
absorbing
- (b)
destroying
- (c)
creating
- (d)
none of these
"I thought how palrtry, how vulgar,
What a mean act!".I refer to---------
- (a)
H.W Long Fellow
- (b)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- (c)
D.H Lawrence
- (d)
Rudyard Kipling
"How glad! I wish he had come like a guest in quiet", to drink at my water-through
And depart peaceful................ The snake is compared to
- (a)
Family member
- (b)
guest
- (c)
relative
- (d)
close friend
"Be not like dumb, driven cattle!" be a hero in the strife!"
- (a)
Peaceful
- (b)
Joyful
- (c)
Struggles
- (d)
stress
"The world in gloom and splendour passes by"
'gloom' stand for
- (a)
Happy
- (b)
Sad
- (c)
Brave
- (d)
Peace
"A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother"
The child is referred here....................
'gloom' stand for
- (a)
The poet D.H Lawarence
- (b)
THe poet H.W Long Fellow
- (c)
The poet Thomas Hardy
- (d)
The poet Robert Frost
Softly in the dusk, a women is singing to me Taking me back down the vista of years
The singer is.........
- (a)
The poet's mother
- (b)
The poet's teacher
- (c)
The poet
- (d)
None of these
"Let me not the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.Love is not"
Admit Impediments refers to the
- (a)
Christian marriage service
- (b)
Islam marriage services
- (c)
Hindu marriage services
- (d)
Jain marriage services
"You can start the count down, you can take a last look".Count Down means
- (a)
the final moments counted forward
- (b)
the final moments counted backward
- (c)
the starting moments counted forward
- (d)
the starting moments counted backward
"In solit'ry confinement as complete as any gaol".Solit'ry refers to
- (a)
alone
- (b)
pair
- (c)
group
- (d)
None of these
"But bears it out even to the edge of doom"'edge of doom' refers to the
- (a)
Last Judgement
- (b)
Scotland
- (c)
Cumberland
- (d)
Island
"Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides"
Herbrides means
- (a)
a group of villages
- (b)
a group of slums
- (c)
a group of islands
- (d)
a group of tribal area
"Will no one tell me what she sings?
perhaps the plaintive numbers flow"
The Reaper's song was
- (a)
sad
- (b)
joyous
- (c)
neither
- (d)
either
"Man's little day is haste we spend and from its mercy noontide, send no glance to meet the silent end"
"Man's little day refers to"
- (a)
one day
- (b)
an entire life time
- (c)
neither
- (d)
either
"O captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack,the prize we sought is own"
Whiteman's "O captain,My captain" Commemerates the death of....................
- (a)
George washington
- (b)
Emerson
- (c)
Lincoln
- (d)
Italy
"If you can't be a muskie, then just be a bass But the liveliest bass in the lake".
'bass' means
- (a)
crocodile
- (b)
Fish
- (c)
Whale
- (d)
Shark
"To serve your turn long after they are gone;"
Long after they are gone means A person will be remembered ever after his death for his
- (a)
Courage
- (b)
Character
- (c)
Knowledge
- (d)
A & B
"We ran as if to meet the moon that slowly dawned behinds the trees"
Whom did they run to meet?
- (a)
rising moon
- (b)
full moon
- (c)
stars
- (d)
clouds
"The barren boughs without the leaves without the birds,without the breeze"
Why were the boughs without birds?
- (a)
no leaves
- (b)
no fruits
- (c)
neither
- (d)
either
But once within the wood,we paused like gnomes that hid us from the moon ready to run to hiding new
with lughter when she found us soon.
'Gnomes' means
- (a)
Giant
- (b)
Dwarfs
- (c)
Angel
- (d)
Devil
"Tell me not in mournful numbers
Life is but an empty dream"
mournful numbers are
- (a)
Happy songs
- (b)
Sad songs
- (c)
Drama songs
- (d)
National songs
"Someone was before me at my water-trough
And I, like a second comer, waiting"
second comer is
- (a)
The poet H.W.Longfellow
- (b)
The poet Walt Whitman
- (c)
The poet D.H.Lawrence
- (d)
The poet Report Frost
"Not in a dreamy and inane abstraction
To sleep our life away"
inane abstraction-Explain
- (a)
Stupid-inactiveness Men are not in such a state
- (b)
Stupid-inactiveness Women are not in such a state
- (c)
Stupid-inactiveness Children are not in such a state
- (d)
Stupid-inactiveness the Old people are not in such a state
"Art is long, and time is fleeting"
Why is art supposed to be long?
because Art is...............
- (a)
immortal
- (b)
immovable
- (c)
immutable
- (d)
immobile
"You cannot rob us of the rights we cherish"
'us' refers to the
- (a)
Slaves
- (b)
Women
- (c)
Farmer
- (d)
Labourer
"O tongues of fire! You came devouring"
.......are referred to as tongues of fire
- (a)
French words
- (b)
Chinnese words
- (c)
English words
- (d)
Greek words
"He reached down from a fissure in the earth-wall in the gloom"
He refers
- (a)
Dog
- (b)
Snake
- (c)
Cat
- (d)
Spider
"O Winged Seeds! you crossed furrowed seas"
You crossed the forrowed seas means-
- (a)
English language has entered
- (b)
French language has entered
- (c)
Greek language has entered
- (d)
Japanese language has entered