Birds, Beasts & Beyond
A very large oceanic bird with long narrow wings which becomes a casualty in Coleridge's tale
What is an albatross?
This spell-binds the Wedding Guest.
What is the glittering eye of the Ancient Mariner?
It was an Ancient Mariner and he stoppeth one of ___.
This is the number of animals the Ancient Mariner kills on his journey?
What is "one"?
Coleridge uses this standard stanza form, although irregularly.
What is "ballad" stanza?
This "whooping" nocturnal bird of prey is said to eat the she-wolf's young pups.
What is the owlet?
This character won the crew's souls in a game of dice
Who is Life-in-Death?
Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to ___.
What is "drink"?
This many gallants were on their way to a Wedding
What is "three"?
The meter of this line "Her lips were red, her looks were free"
What is "iambic"?
What is a seraph, a "seraph-band," or seraphim?
This moves without the aid of wind and frightens the ships crew
What is the spectre-ship?
A sadder and a ____ man, He rose the morrow morn.
What is "wiser"?
This many sailors lost their lives on the ship
What is "two hundred" or "four times fifty"?
This sort of rhyme is evident in the line: "The fair breeze blew, the whit foam flew" and creates a melodic rhythm.
What is "internal rhyme"?
In fair weather, a little bird that filled the air with "sweet jargoning."
What is a sky-lark?
Like the whizz of a cross-bow these fly by
What is the souls of the sailors?
Instead of the ____, the Albatross About my neck was hung.
What is "cross"?
This is the number of voices the Ancient Mariner hears on his return journey.
What is "two"?
The most evident poetic sound device in the line "By the long grey beard and glittering eye."
What is "alliteration"?
Phosphorescence, the production and emission of light by living organisms in marine life, is given off by these creatures.
What are water-snakes?
The mariner calls upon this man to shrive him
Who is the Hermit?
We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship upon a ______ ______.
What is a "painted ocean"?
Including the Ancient Mariner, this many people are in the Pilot's boat.
What is "four"?
The most evident poetic device in the lines "The ice was here, the ice was there, the ice was all around."
What is "anaphora"?