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Epigrammatic Quotation

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Who said, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

  1. John Keats

  2. William Shakespeare

  3. Percy Bysshe Shelley

  4. Alfred, Lord Tennyson


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This famous line is from John Keats' poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn."

Complete the epigram: "All that glitters is _____."

  1. gold

  2. silver

  3. not gold

  4. diamond


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This famous epigram is from William Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice."

Who wrote the epigram "A little learning is a dangerous thing;/Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."

  1. Alexander Pope

  2. John Milton

  3. William Wordsworth

  4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This epigram is from Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Criticism."

Complete the epigram: "Hope springs eternal in the human _____."

  1. heart

  2. mind

  3. soul

  4. spirit


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This famous epigram is from Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Man."

Who wrote the epigram "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

  1. William Shakespeare

  2. John Milton

  3. Geoffrey Chaucer

  4. Thomas More


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This epigram is from William Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice."

Complete the epigram: "The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/Gang _____."

  1. aft agley

  2. a'gley

  3. agley

  4. agley


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This famous epigram is from Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse."

Who wrote the epigram "The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."

  1. William Wordsworth

  2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  3. Percy Bysshe Shelley

  4. John Keats


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This epigram is from William Wordsworth's poem "The World Is Too Much with Us."

Complete the epigram: "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both/And be one traveler, long I stood/And looked down one as far as I could/To where it _____."

  1. bent in the undergrowth

  2. bent in the undergrowth;

  3. bent in the undergrowth.

  4. bent in the undergrowth


Correct Option: A,D
Explanation:

This famous epigram is from Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken."

Who wrote the epigram "Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change/Into something rich and strange."

  1. William Shakespeare

  2. John Milton

  3. John Donne

  4. Ben Jonson


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This epigram is from William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest."

Complete the epigram: "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player/That struts and frets his hour upon the _____."

  1. stage

  2. world

  3. globe

  4. scene


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This famous epigram is from William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth."

Who wrote the epigram "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

  1. William Shakespeare

  2. John Milton

  3. John Donne

  4. Ben Jonson


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This epigram is from William Shakespeare's play "As You Like It."

Complete the epigram: "The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our _____."

  1. powers

  2. time

  3. money

  4. resources


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This famous epigram is from William Wordsworth's poem "The World Is Too Much with Us."

Who wrote the epigram "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

  1. William Shakespeare

  2. John Milton

  3. Geoffrey Chaucer

  4. Thomas More


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This epigram is from William Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice."

Complete the epigram: "A little learning is a dangerous thing;/Drink deep, or taste not the _____."

  1. Pierian spring

  2. Castalian spring

  3. Hippocrene

  4. Aganippe


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This famous epigram is from Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Criticism."

Who wrote the epigram "Hope springs eternal in the human _____."

  1. heart

  2. mind

  3. soul

  4. spirit


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This famous epigram is from Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Man."

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