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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter VI, Coleridge uses an example of a girl from which country?

2. What does Coleridge describe as a cause and effect sequence?

3. What school did Coleridge go to?

4. How old was Coleridge when he was first published?

5. Coleridge found there were endless ways to modify and combine which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of a literary life, as Coleridge sees it?

2. How does Coleridge compare the style of old and modern poets?

3. Why does Coleridge find Wordsworth quotable?

4. What does Coleridge say about Italian poetry?

5. How does Coleridge describe pedantry?

6. What does Coleridge say of his only chance to ever anger anybody?

7. What does Coleridge say his greatest fault is?

8. Describe two of the theses that Coleridge describes.

9. Why does Coleridge say a poem's subject should be remote from the poet?

10. What does Coleridge say about rivals?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What emphasis does Coleridge place on Italian culture? What influence does Italian culture have on poetry, according to Coleridge?

Essay Topic 2

What are the qualities of an unfair review, according to Coleridge? Describe what a fair review would consist of, for Coleridge. How do your views compare?

Essay Topic 3

What is meter? What is metrical composition? How are both relevant to Coleridge?

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