Class quotations

Question 1

primary imagination in Coleridge

Answer 1

power that opens the door to a higher level of truth; isn’t accessible to consciousness; its power lies in dreams and visions, has its own language, feeds our creativity

Question 2

secondary imagination in Coleridge

Answer 2

translates the power of the imagination, and its elusive visions, through language

Question 3

fancy

Answer 3

ability to daydream, bits of imagery brought together in a pretty or whimsical way, not creative

Question 4

visions

Answer 4

débordent le cadre de l’espace et du temps de perception humaine et langage

Question 5

medial inversions

Answer 5

trochaic, pyrric, spondaic – substitute the foot required by a metrical pattern with a different sort of foot

Question 6

acephalexis

Answer 6

the first syllable of a line that would be expected according to the regular metre of the line, is lacking

Question 7

catalexis

Answer 7

final syllable expected by its metrical pattern

Question 8

Dimeter

Answer 8

2 feet per line

Question 9

Trimeter

Answer 9

3 feet per line

Question 10

Tetrameter

Answer 10

4 feet per line

Question 11

Hexameter

Answer 11

6 feet per line

Question 12

Molossus

Answer 12

three stressed syllables

Question 13

Amphibrach

Answer 13

middle syllable stressed

Question 14

romantic epic

Answer 14

takes on a loitering or wandering (rather than heroic) pattern