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Romantic Criticism

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 16mins

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1.

ST Coleridge discusses two cardinal points of poetry in which chapter of Biographia Literaria?

a)

chapter 13

b)

chapter 14

c)

chapter 18

d)

chapter 10

2.

According to Coleridge the immediate object of prose is to give ----- and that of the poem is to please.

a)

imagination

b)

pleasure

c)

truth

d)

peace

3.

In Chapter 14, Coleridge calls imagination a ---- and synthetic power.

a)

magical

b)

ordinary

c)

truthful

d)

delightful

4.

----- imagination makes artistic creation possible.

a)

primary

b)

secondary

c)

esemplastic

d)

good sense

5.

To Coleridge mere super addition of --- doesn't make a poem.

a)

inane phraseology

b)

pleasure

c)

truth

d)

meter/ rhyme

6.

---- is able to reconcile opposite or discordant qualities.

a)

imagination

b)

fancy

c)

truth

d)

good sense

7.

---- is the origin of the famous critical concept of "the willing suspension of disbelief".

a)

chapter 14

b)

chapter 10

c)

chapter 13

d)

chapter 22

8.

Biographia Literaria was published in the year ----

a)

1816

b)

1817

c)

1798

d)

1789

9.

Who coined the word 'esemplastic'?

a)

Wordsworth

b)

Coleridge

c)

Sidney

d)

Aristotle

10.

----- of the highest kind may exist without meter or without rhyme.

a)

poem

b)

imagination

c)

poetry

d)

prose

11.

Esemplastic means -----

a)

good sense

b)

imagination

c)

to shape into one

d)

scatter

12.

The phrase 'willing suspension of disbelief' was first used in ----?

a)

lyrical ballads

b)

sibylline leaves

c)

biographia literaria

d)

Kubla Khan

13.

Secondary imagination is the echo of ---

a)

primary imagination

b)

fancy

c)

truth

d)

pleasure

14.

---- is a mode of memory, free from space and time.

a)

primary imagination

b)

fancy

c)

truth

d)

pleasure

15.

ST Coleridge examines Wordsworth's theory of poetic diction in ---- of Biographia Literaria.

a)

chapter 14

b)

chapter 15

c)

chapter 16

d)

chapter 17

16.

Biographia Literaria was intended to be a short preface to a collection of Coleridge's poem ----

a)

Lyrical Ballads

b)

Sibylline leaves

c)

Biographia Literaria

d)

Kubla Khan

17.

Use of ---- is an aid to memory.

a)

metre

b)

truth

c)

imagination

d)

historical elements

18.

Coleridge said that ---- is the body of poetic genius.

a)

primary

b)

secondary

c)

esemplastic

d)

good sense

19.

Biographia Literaria contains the celebrated distinction between imagination and -----

a)

primary imagination

b)

fancy

c)

truth

d)

pleasure

20.

----- is the false parallel of secondary imagination

a)

primary imagination

b)

fancy

c)

truth

d)

pleasure

21.

Coleridge himself called Biographia Literaria as -----

a)

methodical miscellany

b)

immethodical miscellany

c)

creative faculty

d)

Bible of criticism

22.

------ imagination exists with the conscious will

a)

primary imagination

b)

fancy

c)

truth

d)

secondary imagination

23.

An ideal ---- would bring the whole soul of man into activity

a)

poem

b)

poetry

c)

poet

d)

imagination

24.

To Coleridge, the true poet is characterized by ----

a)

poetic genius

b)

fancy

c)

figures of speech

d)

use of metre

25.

----- sustains and modifies the images, thoughts and emotions of poet's mind

a)

primary imagination

b)

fancy

c)

imagination

d)

secondary imagination

26.

According to Coleridge, a poem contains the same elements as in ----

a)

prose

b)

drama

c)

tragedy

d)

essay

27.

Biographia Literaria is a critical examination of ----

a)

Arnold's Study of Poetry

b)

Wordsworth's Theory in Preface

c)

Lyrical Ballads

d)

Aristotle's Poetics

28.

---- propounded the theory of fancy and imagination

a)

Wordsworth

b)

Sydney

c)

Coleridge

d)

Aristotle

29.

In the 22nd chapter of Biographia, ---- of Wordsworth is discussed

a)

theory of poetic diction

b)

theory of imagination

c)

merits and demerits

d)

esemplastic imagiantion

30.

Imagination is more active than ----

a)

primary imagination

b)

fancy

c)

imagination

d)

secondary imagination

31.

Fancy is a ------ process

a)

chemical

b)

mechanical

c)

active

d)

transforming