trivia questions about Elizabeth Bishop
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"the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!)like disaster"
These are the final lines of which Elizabeth Bishop poem, and in what poetic form is the poem written in?
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125 times |
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76 times (29.6%) |
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difficult |
| Incorrect: |
49 times (19.1%) |
| Skipped: |
132 times (51.4%) |
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In which of the books by Jennifer Weiner is the villanelle "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop frequently referred to?
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100 times |
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18 times (8.4%) |
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really really difficult |
| Incorrect: |
82 times (38.3%) |
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114 times (53.3%) |
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The subject matter of whose work was described by fellow poet Philip Larkin as "variously, neurosis, insanity, disease, death, horror, terror"?
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168 times |
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110 times (44.4%) |
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medium |
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58 times (23.4%) |
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80 times (32.3%) |
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Who claimed this?
"For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
In the valley of its saying where executives
Would never want to tamper; it flows south
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,
Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,
A way of happening, a mouth."
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| Answered: |
54 times |
| Correct: |
15 times (19.2%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
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39 times (50.0%) |
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24 times (30.8%) |
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The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon
Name the quoted poet: "And not waving but drowning."
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82 times |
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34 times (31.8%) |
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difficult |
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48 times (44.9%) |
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25 times (23.4%) |
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Elizabeth Bishop did NOT spend years living in which of the following countries?
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33 times |
| Correct: |
9 times (11.5%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
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24 times (30.8%) |
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45 times (57.7%) |
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
When the blackbird flew out of sight,
It marked the edge
Of one of many circles.
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34 times |
| Correct: |
23 times (40.4%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
| Incorrect: |
11 times (19.3%) |
| Skipped: |
23 times (40.4%) |
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