Frankenstein - Quiz #1 - Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Letters 1-4

Coleridge’s belief that God is manifested in Nature and that people can have spiritual experiences through communing with Nature is called __________.

• The One Spirit
• The One Life
• The One Soul
• The One God

Identify the poetic device: “The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew / the furrow followed free.”

• Metaphor
• Allusion
• Alliteration
• Consonance

“The whizz of my crossbow!” is an example of

• Personification
• Oxymoron
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia

The Ancient Mariner uses _____________ when he describes the wind by saying, “It raised my hair, it fanned my cheek.”

• Imagery
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Juxtaposition

The Albatross is a(n) _________ of blame for the Mariner’s crime.

• Hyperbole
• Symbol
• Personification
• Oxymoron

Use the given text for the following question: “I watched their rich attire. / Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, / They coiled and swam; and every track / Was a flash of golden fire. / O happy living things! No tongue / Their beauty might declare: / A spring of love gushed from my heart, / I blessed them unaware” Why does the Albatross fall from the Mariner’s neck after this blessing?

What lesson are we supposed to learn from the Mariner’s story in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

Which Romanticism Characteristic is strongly demonstrated in this poem? Explain.

Who is Robert Walton, and to whom is he writing his letters at the beginning of the novel Frankenstein?

• He is a Russian sailor writing to his wife who he left behind in St. Petersburg.
• He is a British explorer writing to his sister as he journeys north.
• He is a whale hunter from Greenland who is writing to his mother about his seafaring adventures.
• He is an Englishman who is writing to his Russian lover, whom he has been forbidden to marry.

In Letter 4, Walton and his crew rescue a mysterious figure from the ice. What does this man claim is his reason for being alone in this deadly place?

• He says that he is chasing someone who has run away from him.
• He says that he is on a journey to the North Pacific Ocean.
• He says that he became lost on the ice and could not find his way home.
• He says that he wanted to be alone because he lost everything and had nothing left to live for.