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2021-02-15 10:47:47 Introduction to Biographia Literaria- S.T. Coleridge
Explication of Biographia Literaria- Chapter 4- Part 1
Objectives
This module would enable the student to:
• Understand the age in which Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived.
• Explicate the influences on Coleridge’s literary output.
• Explain Coleridge’s contribution to literature.
• Trace the origin of Coleridge’s critical theory of poetry.
• Frame an estimate of Coleridge as an erudite scholar. Open / Comment

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Explication of Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)- Part 1

Objectives
This module would enable the student to:
- Highlight the significance of the Preface.
-Explicate Wordsworth’s dissatisfaction with eighteenth-century poetry
-Explain the function of poetry as explained by Wordsworth.
-Outline Wordsworth’s originality in proposing his theory of poetry.
-Elucidate the shortcomings of the Preface.
-Analyse Wordsworth’s view of the function of poetry.
Part two:



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2020-12-16 22:52:15 1. Which poem ends 'I shall but love thee better after death'?
a. How do I love thee
b. Ode to a Grecian urn
c. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
d. Let me not to the marriage of true minds

2. Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
a. John keats
b. Lord Byron
c. Solan
d. Sappho

3. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
a. Nature
b. Epics
c. Sonnets
d. Nonsense

4. In coleridge's poem 'The rime of the Ancient Mariner'where were the three gallants going?
a. A funeral
b. A wedding
c. Market
d. To the races

5. Harold Nicholson described which poet as 'Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners'?
a. e. e. Cummings
b. T. S. Elliot
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman

6. What was strange about Emily Dickinson?
a. She rarely left home
b. She wrote in code
c. She never attempted to publish her poetry
d. She wrote her poems in invisible ink

7. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
a. Boer War
b. Second World War
c. Korean War
d. First World War

8. Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
a. Betjeman
b. Hughes
c. Marvel
d. Larkin

9. Which American writer published 'A brave and startling truth' in 1996
a. Robert Hass
b. Jessica Hagdorn
c. Maya Angelou
d. Micheal Palmer

10. Who wrote about the idyllic 'Isle of Innisfree'?
a. Dylan Thomas
b. Ezra Pound
c. W. B. Yeats
d. e. e. cummings

11. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry

rhyme scheme

meter

alliteration

12. The repetition of similar ending sounds

alliteration

onomatopoiea

rhyme

13. Applying human qualities to non-human things

personification

onomatopoeia

alliteration

14. The repetition of beginning consonant sounds

rhyme

onomatopoeia

alliteration

15. A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as

metaphor

simile

personification

16. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as

metaphor

simile

personification

17. Using words or letters to imitate sounds

alliteration

simile

onomatopoeia

18. a description that appeals to one of the five senses

imagery

personification

metaphor

19. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters

lyric

free verse

narrative

20. A poem with no meter or rhyme

lyric

free verse

narrative

21. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme

lyric

free verse

narrative

22. Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
a. Masefield
b. Causley
c. Hughes
d. Larkin

23. Carl Sandburg 'Planked whitefish' contains what kind of imagery?
a. Sea scenes
b. Rural Idyll
c. War
d. Innocent childhood

24. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Paul Dunbar
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman

25. In 1960 'The Colossus' was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
a. Elizabeth Bishop
b. Sylvia Plath
c. Marianne Moore
d. Laura Jackson Open / Comment

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