1) Coleridge begins Chapter XIV by talking about a discussion that he had with Wordsworth about two cardinal points of poetry. The Biographia Literaria is a critical autobiography by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1817 in _____
A:) two volumes
B:) three volumes
C:) four volumes
D:) first volume
springline- Correct option: A:) two volumes
2) Lyrical Ballads, the idea was to create two sets of poems one giving importance to the supernatural and imagination and the other giving importance to _____?
A:) society
B:) rustic language
C:) nature
D:) rustic people
springline- Correct option: C:) nature
3) Biographia Literaria : The formative influences on the work were Wordsworth's theory of poetry, the Kantian view of imagination as a shaping power (for which Coleridge later coined the neologism ‘esemplastic’), various post-Kantian writers including F.W.J. von Schelling, and the earlier influences of the empiricist school, including _____?
A:) David Hartley
B:) Christopher Smart
C:) William Collins
D:) Thomas Warton
springline- Correct option: A:) David Hartley
4) Biographia Literaria : Its subtitle, 'Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions', alludes to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne, suggesting that the formal qualities of the Biographia are intentional. The form is also______?
A:) philosophical
B:) meditative
C:) natural
D:) descriptive
springline- Correct option: B:) meditative
5) Some early readers thought it demonstrated Coleridge's opiate-driven decline into ill health, and soon after Coleridge's death he was accused of plagiarising Schelling. But by the early twentieth century it had emerged as a major if puzzling work in criticism and theory, with George Saintsbury placing Coleridge next to Aristotle and Longinus in his influential History of _______?
A:) 1902-06
B:) 1901-02
C:) 1902-04
D:) 1903-05
springline- Correct option: C:) 1902-04
6) Biographia Literaria : The work grew to a literary autobiography, covering his education and studies, and his early literary adventures, an extended criticism of William Wordsworth's theory of poetry as given in the 'Preface' to the Lyrical Ballads (a work on which Coleridge collaborated), and a statement of his____?
A:) philosophical views
B:) meditative views
C:) imaginative views
D:) natural views
springline- Correct option: A:) philosophical views
7) Biographia Literaria : The author believed in the ‘self-sufficing power of absolute Genius’ and distinguished between genius and talent as between ‘an egg and an egg-shell’. The first volume culminates in his gnomic definition of the ______?
A:) spiritualism
B:) philosophy
C:) poetry
D:) imagination
springline- Correct option: D:) imagination
8) Biographia Literaria : While maintaining a general agreement with Wordsworth's point of view, Coleridge elaborately refutes his principle that the language of poetry should be one taken with due exceptions from the mouths of men in real life, and that there can be no essential difference between the language of prose and of _____?
A:) idioms
B:) metrical structure
C:) ballad
D:) metrical composition
springline- Correct option: D:) metrical composition
9) Biographia Literaria : In Chapter 17 Coleridge resumes his critique of Wordsworth’s literary theory, particularly Wand that it is consciousness, not commonness, that defines poetic geniusordsworth’s investment in ‘rustic language’ . Coleridge argues that poetry is inevitably _____?
A:) artificial
B:) natural
C:) rustic
D:) chaotic
springline- Correct option: A:) artificial
10) Biographia Literaria : The superlative quality of Wordsworth’s poetry is due to Wordsworth’s ability to synthesize naturalistic imagery and spiritual profundity. Coleridge inverts Wordsworth’s aesthetic theory of the natural to form his own, which emphasizes the supernatural, accessed via the _____?
A:) language
B:) Imagination
C:) social class
D:) thought
springline- Correct option: B:) Imagination
11) Biographia Literaria : Mr. Wordsworth's theory ground themselves on the assumption, that his words had been rightly interpreted, as purporting that the proper diction for poetry in general consists altogether in a language taken, with due exceptions, from the mouths of men in real life, a language which actually constitutes the natural conversation of men under the influence of _____
A:) natural feelings
B:) inner feelings
C:) social class
D:) emotions
springline- Correct option: A:) natural feelings
12) Biographia Literaria : The poet informs his reader, that he had generally chosen low and rustic life; but not as low and rustic, or in order to repeat that pleasure of doubtful moral effect, which persons of elevated rank and of superior refinement oftentimes derive from a happy imitation of the rude unpolished manners and discourse of their ____
A:) superiors
B:) inferiors
C:) ornament
D:) Spectacles
springline- Correct option: B:) inferiors
13) Biographia Literaria : As the two principal Coleridge rank that independence, which raises a man above servitude, or daily toil for the profit of others, yet not above the necessity of industry and a frugal simplicity of domestic life; and the accompanying unambitious, but solid and religious, education, which has rendered few books familiar, but the Bible, and the Liturgy or ____
A:) Hymn book
B:) Book of Job
C:) Jonah
D:) Revelation
springline- Correct option: A:) Hymn book
14) Coleridge should not have entered so much into detail upon this passage, but here seems to be the point, to which all the lines of difference converge as to their source and centre;—he meant, as far as, and in whatever respect, my poetic creed does differ from the doctrines promulgated in that preface. Coleridge adopt with full faith, the principle of_____
A:) Plato
B:) Aristotle
C:) Horace
D:) Homer
springline- Correct option: B:) Aristotle
15) Biographia Literaria : The characters of the vicar and the shepherd-mariner in the poem of The Brothers, and that of the shepherd of Green-head Ghyll in the MICHAEL, have all the verisimilitude and representative quality, that the purposes of poetry can require. They are persons of a known and _____
A:) social class
B:) upper class
C:) rustic class
D:) abiding class
springline- Correct option: D:) abiding class
16) Biographia Literaria : In the poems which are pitched in a lower key, as the Harry Gill, and The Idiot boy, the feelings are those of human nature in general; though the poet has judiciously laid the scene in the country, in order to place himself in the vicinity of interesting images, without the necessity of ascribing a Which perception of their beauty to the persons of his drama?
A:) morality
B:) emotional
C:) sentimental
D:) tragedy
springline- Correct option: C:) sentimental
17) Biographia Literaria : In The Idiot Boy indeed, the mother's character is not so much the real and native product of a ‘situation where the essential passions of the heart find a better soil, in which they can attain their maturity and speak a plainer and more emphatic language,’ as it is an impersonation of an instinct abandoned by _____
A:) denouncement
B:) judgment
C:) morality
D:) thoughts
springline- Correct option: B:) judgment
18) Biographia Literaria : In The Throne, the poet himself acknowledges in a note the necessity of an introductory poem, in which he should have portrayed the character of the person from whom the words of the poem are supposed to proceed: a superstitious man moderately____
A:) imaginative
B:) supernaturalism
C:) spiritualism
D:) naturalism
springline- Correct option: A:) imaginative
19) Biographia Literaria : Mr. Wordsworth adds, ‘accordingly, such a language arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings, is a more permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets. Coleridge object, in the very first instance, to an equivocation in the use of the word_______
A:) fair
B:) real
C:) rustic
D:) faith
springline- Correct option: B:) real
20) Coleridge delivers the Biographia Literaria without a second thought of weather or not there will be any disagreement from his audience. Before learning the Biograohia Literaria it is important to take the information from the onother book also that what was written over there also. In book—4 Coleridge gives two words which were ‘imagination’ and_______
A:) Fancy
B:) real
C:) fair
D:) fantasy
springline- Correct option: A:) Fancy
21) The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and spaces while it is blended with and modified by that empirical phenomenon of the will, which we express by the word ‘choice’. ‘Fancy’ in Coleridge’s eye was employed for tasks that were ‘passive’ and____
A:) natural
B:) artificial
C:) mechanical
D:)philosophical
springline- Correct option: C:) mechanical
22) Biographia Literaria : The distinction made by Coleridge between ‘Fancy’ and ‘Imagination’. Rested that fact that Fancy was concerned with the mechanical operations of data and storage of such a data in memory. Imagination on the other hand described the ‘mysterious power’, which extracted from such data ‘hidden ideas and _____
A:) tones
B:) meaning
C:) language
D:) forms
springline- Correct option: B:) meaning
23) Biographia Literaria : In addition to his poetry, Coleridge also wrote influential pieces of literary criticism including Biographia Literaria, a collection of his thoughts and opinions on literature which he published in 1817. The collection also contained an analysis of a broad range of philosophical principles of literature ranging from Aristotle to _____
A:) Immanuel Kant
B:) Alexander Pope
C:) Allen Tate
D:) John Crowe Ransom
springline- Correct option: A:) Immanuel Kant
24) Biographia Literaria : Coleridge's explanation of metaphysical principles were popular topics of discourse in academic communities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and Who stated that he believed that Coleridge was ‘perhaps the greatest of English critics, and in a sense the last ?
A:) Andrew Marvell
B:) John Milton
C:) Wordsworth
D:) T.S. Eliot
springline- Correct option: D:) T.S. Eliot
25) Biographia Literaria : Eliot suggests that Coleridge displayed ‘natural abilities’ far greater than his contemporaries, dissecting literature and applying philosophical principles of metaphysics in a way that brought the subject of his criticisms away from the text and into a world of logical analysis that mixed logical analysis and ______
A:) emotion
B:) themes
C:) language
D:) style
springline- Correct option: A:) emotion
26) Who is in Historical Fictions, discusses Norman Fruman's Coleridge, the Damaged Archangel and suggests that the term ‘criticism’ is too often applied to Biographia Literaria, which both he and Fruman describe as having failed to explain or help the reader understand works of art?
A:) Thomas Gray
B:) John Clare
C:) Hugh Kenner
D:) Isaac Watts
springline- Correct option: C:) Hugh Kenner
27) To Kenner, Coleridge's attempt to discuss complex philosophical concepts without describing the rational process behind them displays a lack of critical thinking that makes the volume more of a biography than a work of ______?
A:) epic
B:) philosophy
C:) literary theory
D:) criticism
springline- Correct option: D:) criticism
28) In Biographia Literaria and his poetry, symbols are not merely ‘objective correlatives’ to Coleridge, but instruments for making the universe and personal experience intelligible and spiritually covalent. To Coleridge, the ‘cinque spotted spider,’ making its way upstream ‘by fits and starts,’ [Biographia Literaria] is not merely a comment on the intermittent nature of creativity, imagination, or ______?
A:) philosophical progress
B:) spiritual progress
C:) superstitious progress
D:) theoretical progress
springline- Correct option: B:) spiritual progress
29) The spider's five legs represent the central problem that Coleridge lived to resolve, the conflict between Aristotelian logic and Christian philosophy. Two legs of the spider represent the _____
A:) me-to-me
B:) me-not-poet
C:) me-not me
D:) me-to-people
springline- Correct option: C:) me-not me
30) Mary Shelley, who knew Coleridge well, mentions The Rime of the Ancient Mariner twice directly in Frankenstein, and some of the descriptions in the novel echo it indirectly. Although William Godwin, her father, disagreed with Coleridge on some important issues, he respected his opinions and Coleridge often visited the______
A:) William Blake
B:) Godwins
C:) Robert Burns
D:) Lord Byron
springline- Correct option: B:) Godwins