First English author buried with a monument in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
100
The literary device seen in the line, "Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink?
What is hyperbole?
100
Poet who wrote The Canterbury Tales.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
100
Literary device seen in the line, "William Shakespeare was not a bad playwright at all."
What is litotes or ironic understatement?
100
The genre of "Robin Hood and the Three Squires."
What is a Medieval ballad?
200
Playwright who wrote dramas for the Rose and the Globe Theater in London.
Who is William Shakespeare?
200
Literary device seen in Oscar Wilde's line, "I can resist anything but temptation"
What is paradox?
200
Poet who wrote the poem "Ulysses" about the hero Odysseus after his eventual return to Ithaca.
Who is Alfred, Lord Tennyson?
200
Literary device seen in the line, "Her London home's whole air of being a cracked cup from which memory had either evaporated or leaked away"
What is metaphor (or analogy)?
200
The genre of "Death, Be Not Proud" by Donne.
What is a sonnet?
300
Author of the Medieval Romance "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Who is the Pearl Poet?
300
Literary device seen in the line, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"
What is synecdoche?
300
Poet who wrote the supernatural narrative poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" about a curse and a ship sailed by dead men.
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
300
Literary device seen in the line, "On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of being Earnest."
What is a pun?
300
The genre of "Meditation 17" by Donne in the 17th century.
What is a Metaphysical sermon?
400
Who is the Poet Laureate of the Romanticism era who defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility"
Who is William Wordsworth?
400
Literary device seen in the lines, "O Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour; England hath need of thee!"
What is apostrophe?
400
Novelist who wrote one of the earliest novels ever written, the 18th century novel Robinson Crusoe.
Who is Daniel Defoe?
400
Literary device seen in the line, "I'll love you till the ocean / Is folded and hung up to dry."
What is hyperbole?
400
The genre of "The Pardoner's Tale" by Chaucer.
What is an exemplum?
500
The patriotic World War I poet and England's "golden hero" who wrote "The Soldier" and "The Dead" about his experiences.
Who is Rupert Brooke?
500
Literary device seen in the line, "A body would have thought he was Adam; he was just all mud."
What is Biblical allusion?
500
Earliest authors who co-wrote the periodicals The Spectator and The Tatler in the 18th century.
Who are Joseph Addison and Richard Steele?
500
Literary device seen in the line, "Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, and sick health!"