6. Which of these is my favourite quote? HINT: it's awesome!
'So he lies, Circled with evil, till his very soul unmoulds its essence, hopelessly deformed, by sights of ever more deformity!'
'His angry spirit healed and harmonised by the benignant touch of love and beauty.'
'Thy melodies of woods, and winds, and waters'
'His energies roll back upon his heart.
7. 'stagnate', 'corrupt', 'poison', 'friendless solitude', 'groaning', 'tears', 'uncomfortable', 'dismal twilight', 'savage' and, 'dungeon' form a semantic field that is best described as what?
The effects of an absence of nature.
All of these.
Macabre cinematic imagery.
Negative.
8. Finish the quote: 'Poor brother...'
'... who offends against us'
'... poor victim!'
'... most innocent, perhaps'
'... this is the process of our love and wisdom'
9. 'O nature! Healest thy wandering and distempered child: ... Amid this general dance and minstrelsy; ... [he] wins back his way' would be a good quote to support which point?
Coleridge introduces a rhyme scheme in the second stanza.
Coleridge was an advocate of the Bloody Code and the penal system before the penal reform of the late 18th century.
Other readers disagree that this is Coleridge's intention with his use of punctuation as it does not change in the second stanza. Which of these quotes best supports that?
Coleridge simplifies his punctuation in the seconds stanza; as compared to the first.
10. Other readers may argue that the aforementioned use of punctuation can be seen to do what?
To echo the form of the poem as being a dramatic monologue and the idea that Lyrical Ballads are supposed to be spoken.
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 dramatise the poem.
To give instructions to readers when they were speaking the poem aloud.
11. 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?
The show his passion for the subject.
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.
So that the poem stays close to its rhyme scheme without loosing meaning.
To increase the sophistication of his argument to impress his readership and win them to his side.
12. The type of alliteration used in, 'parching poverty' to emphasise the horrific conditions of 18th century prisons is called what?
Assonance.
Consonance.
Plosive alliteration.
Fricative alliteration.
13. What quote would support the Romantic belief that regardless of a person's actions, they are entitled to a certain level of basic human kindness. This quote also expresses a concern for the punishment than an individual would undergo for their crimes
'... most innocent, perhaps'
'and what if guilty?'
'Is this the only cure? Merciful God?'
'Loathsome plague-spot;'
14. Which techniques are present in the quote, 'Thy melodies of woods, and winds and, waters'?
All three as well as personification.
Alliteration
Assonance
Tule of three.
15. 'Till he relent, and can no more endure To be a jarring and dissonant thing ... His angry spirit healed and harmonised By the benignant touch of love and beauty.' Is Coleridge's summation that nature should be used in the rehabilitation of prisoners.
False, Coleridge believed that religion was the best way to rehabilitate prisoners.
False, it simply supports the romantic belief that nature posses restorative powers, Coleridge did't believe in its use to rehabilitate prisoners.
True. Although the Romantic movement did also advocate religion as a tool for rehabilitating prisoners.
False, Coleridge didn't believe in rehabilitation.
