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Kubla Khan
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Literary Terms
Miscellaneous
100

This is where Coleridge was born.

What is St. Devonshire?

100

This influenced Kubla Khan.

What is Opium?

100
The people the mariner is speaking to at the beginning of the poem.
Who are the wedding guests?
100
a statement in a non-fiction or a fiction work that a writer intends to support and prove.
What is a Thesis?
100

This got Coleridge sick and addicted to Opium.

What is his childhood illness and absence of his wife?

200

Respected headmaster of a grammar school and father of Coleridge

Who is John Coleridge?

200
The setting for Kubla Khan.
What is Xanadu?
200

Its what the mariner killed in the poem

What is an albatros?

200
The way in which the parts of a work of literature are put together.
What is structure?
200

Double Jeopardy

Take another turn and points are doubled

300

The time that Coleridge spent with his wife before she left him

What is 9 years?

300
The land forms that shape throughout this poem
What are Ice Caves?
300

The main goal of the mariner 

What is to have his tale of the voyage heard?

300
Refers to the method of narrating a short story, novel, narrative poem, or work of nonfiction.
What is a Point of View?
300

The name Coleridge made to join the military

Who is Silas Tomkyn Comberache?

400
Coleridge had nine of these

What are siblings?

400

This caused him to forget his dream

Who is a man from Porluck?

400

The year he finished the Rime of the Ancient Mariner

When is 1798?

400
When the sounds of words accented vowels and all succeeding sounds are identical.
What is Rhyme?
400

The classic poem,"Twas the night before Christmas" describes visions of these treats dancing in children's heads

What are sugar-plums?

500

The issues that caused his death.

What is heart and lung problems?

500

This place represents a utopia in the poem.

What is Xanadu?

500

The question the hermit asks the mariner.

"What manner of man art thou?"

500
The attitude and feelings associated with a word.
What are connotations?
500

This famous Christmas song came from the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens"

What is "O Holy Night"?