The Dungeon - Key Quotes

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1. Which techniques are present in the quote, 'Thy melodies of woods, and winds and, waters'?

  • Tule of three.
  • Alliteration
  • All three as well as personification.
  • Assonance
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2. 'Merciful God?' can be seen as ironic because...

  • Coleridge's use of punctuation questions god's mercy.
  • All of these things.
  • It ambiguously extends the previous question whilst subtly questioning god's status as omni-benevolent.
  • Coleridge's use of lexicon and punctuation reminds a religious audience - at the time - that a system based on the bible is entirely devoid of God and religious teachings.

3. The type of alliteration used in, 'parching poverty' to emphasise the horrific conditions of 18th century prisons is called what?

  • Plosive alliteration.
  • Consonance.
  • Fricative alliteration.
  • Assonance.

4. Coleridge uses punctuation such as, 'loathsome plague-spot;', 'their best cure!' and, 'what if guilty?' in the first stanza of The Dungeon to what avail?

  • To create a more difficult structure for his common readership so that, by contrast, his simpler seconds stanza - about nature - will seem more appealing to them.
  • The show his passion for the subject.
  • To increase the sophistication of his argument to impress his readership and win them to his side.
  • So that the poem stays close to its rhyme scheme without loosing meaning.

5. Other readers may argue that the aforementioned use of punctuation can be seen to do what?

  • Any of these things... any of the wrong answers from the last question... A03 loves it when you have contrasting opinions on a point which are attributed to, 'other readers'.
  • To give instructions to readers when they were speaking the poem aloud.
  • To dramatise the poem.
  • To echo the form of the poem as being a dramatic monologue and the idea that Lyrical Ballads are supposed to be spoken.

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