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WorksheetsRomantic Criticism
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 16mins
ST Coleridge discusses two cardinal points of poetry in which chapter of Biographia Literaria?
chapter 13
chapter 14
chapter 18
chapter 10
According to Coleridge the immediate object of prose is to give ----- and that of the poem is to please.
imagination
pleasure
truth
peace
In Chapter 14, Coleridge calls imagination a ---- and synthetic power.
magical
ordinary
truthful
delightful
----- imagination makes artistic creation possible.
primary
secondary
esemplastic
good sense
To Coleridge mere super addition of --- doesn't make a poem.
inane phraseology
pleasure
truth
meter/ rhyme
---- is able to reconcile opposite or discordant qualities.
imagination
fancy
truth
good sense
---- is the origin of the famous critical concept of "the willing suspension of disbelief".
chapter 14
chapter 10
chapter 13
chapter 22
Biographia Literaria was published in the year ----
1816
1817
1798
1789
Who coined the word 'esemplastic'?
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Sidney
Aristotle
----- of the highest kind may exist without meter or without rhyme.
poem
imagination
poetry
prose
Esemplastic means -----
good sense
imagination
to shape into one
scatter
The phrase 'willing suspension of disbelief' was first used in ----?
lyrical ballads
sibylline leaves
biographia literaria
Kubla Khan
Secondary imagination is the echo of ---
primary imagination
fancy
truth
pleasure
---- is a mode of memory, free from space and time.
primary imagination
fancy
truth
pleasure
ST Coleridge examines Wordsworth's theory of poetic diction in ---- of Biographia Literaria.
chapter 14
chapter 15
chapter 16
chapter 17
Biographia Literaria was intended to be a short preface to a collection of Coleridge's poem ----
Lyrical Ballads
Sibylline leaves
Biographia Literaria
Kubla Khan
Use of ---- is an aid to memory.
metre
truth
imagination
historical elements
Coleridge said that ---- is the body of poetic genius.
primary
secondary
esemplastic
good sense
Biographia Literaria contains the celebrated distinction between imagination and -----
primary imagination
fancy
truth
pleasure
----- is the false parallel of secondary imagination
primary imagination
fancy
truth
pleasure
Coleridge himself called Biographia Literaria as -----
methodical miscellany
immethodical miscellany
creative faculty
Bible of criticism
------ imagination exists with the conscious will
primary imagination
fancy
truth
secondary imagination
An ideal ---- would bring the whole soul of man into activity
poem
poetry
poet
imagination
To Coleridge, the true poet is characterized by ----
poetic genius
fancy
figures of speech
use of metre
----- sustains and modifies the images, thoughts and emotions of poet's mind
primary imagination
fancy
imagination
secondary imagination
According to Coleridge, a poem contains the same elements as in ----
prose
drama
tragedy
essay
Biographia Literaria is a critical examination of ----
Arnold's Study of Poetry
Wordsworth's Theory in Preface
Lyrical Ballads
Aristotle's Poetics
---- propounded the theory of fancy and imagination
Wordsworth
Sydney
Coleridge
Aristotle
In the 22nd chapter of Biographia, ---- of Wordsworth is discussed
theory of poetic diction
theory of imagination
merits and demerits
esemplastic imagiantion
Imagination is more active than ----
primary imagination
fancy
imagination
secondary imagination
Fancy is a ------ process
chemical
mechanical
active
transforming
