Coleridge Kubla Khan

What literary sound device is used in the following line...

"Where Alph, the sacred river, ran"?

• consonance

• symbolism

• anaphora

• hyperbole

What literary sound device is used in both of these lines...

"Through caverns measureless to man

Down to a sunless sea."?

• alliteration

• anaphora

• epanalepsis

• hyperbole

Which word best describes the setting Coleridge creates in the opening stanza?

• surreal

• metaphorical

• diabolic

• simplistic

What theme do the following lines introduce to the poem?

"A savage place! as holy and enchanted

As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted

By woman wailing for her demon-lover!"

• control

• seduction

• forgiveness

• enlightenment

What literary sound device is used in the following line...

"Five miles meandering with a mazy motion"?

• alliteration

• assonance

• metaphor

• metonymy

What might the "damsel with the dulcimer" symbolize in the poem?

• artist

• prisoner

• lover

• king

According to these lines...

"That with music loud and long,

I would build that dome in air, "

how does the speaker respond to the song?

• it serves as his source of inspiration

• it captivates him and imprisons him

• it forces him into a docile, mundane existence

• it inspires him to free Khan's prisoners

Which line from the poem suggests the power of creativity is in essence an evil force?

• And all should cry, Beware! Beware!

• Weave a circle round him thrice,

• Ancestral voices prophesying war!

• A mighty fountain momently was forced

What object from the pom best symbolizes the source of inspiration for the poet?

• milk of paradise

• mighty fountain

• woman wailing

• sunny spots of greenery

What theme does the "woman wailing for her demon lover" help develop in the poem?

• captivity

• freedom

• love

• imagination