TEST -17- My First Acquaintance with Poets, Lyrical Ballads

In My First Acquaintance with Poets, who is described as having "the finest eyes I ever saw"?

• Coleridge
• Wordsworth
• Lamb
• Southey

In My First Acquaintance with Poets, Hazlitt mentions, "His voice rolled on the ear like the pealing organ." Which device is used here?

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Hyperbole

The phrase “He had a low, musical voice, and an under tone of pathos and melody” from My First Acquaintance with Poets is an example of:

• Hyperbaton
• Synaesthesia
• Alliteration
• Euphony

In My First Acquaintance with Poets, who is referred to as "a man of genius but not of talent"?

• Southey
• Coleridge
• Wordsworth
• Hunt

In My First Acquaintance with Poets, Hazlitt’s description of Coleridge’s lecture delivery is:

• Monotonous and factual
• Animated and enthusiastic
• Dry and rigid
• Distracted and incoherent

"He talked on for ever, and you wished him to talk on for ever" — this line from My First Acquaintance with Poets suggests:

• Coleridge’s verbosity
• The charm of Coleridge’s oratory
• Hazlitt’s boredom
• An ironic remark

“There was a cheerfulness in his tone, a mildness in his manner, a flow of reasoning in his words.” This triadic phrase from My First Acquaintance with Poets uses:

• Anadiplosis
• Polysyndeton
• Tricolon
• Metonymy

Which poet did Hazlitt meet at Nether Stowey as per My First Acquaintance with Poets?

• Keats
• Shelley
• Coleridge
• Byron

In My First Acquaintance with Poets, Hazlitt admits he had never heard poetry read before by:

• Coleridge
• Wordsworth
• His schoolmaster
• Lamb

Which literary work was read aloud by Coleridge in My First Acquaintance with Poets?

• Christabel
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Kubla Khan
• Dejection: An Ode