Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 1

a large white sea bird

Answer 1

albatross

Question 2

great thanks

Answer 2

gramercy

Question 3

faint

Answer 3

swoon

Question 4

declared to be true

Answer 4

averred

Question 5

unquenched; unsatisfied

Answer 5

unslaked

Question 6

a church

Answer 6

kirk

Question 7

a cross

Answer 7

rood

Question 8

shining; glinting; sparkling

Answer 8

glittering

Question 9

dire; depressing

Answer 9

dismal

Question 10

floating cobwebs

Answer 10

gossamers

Question 11

the Mariner “holds him with his glittering eye”; represents every man

Answer 11

Wedding Guest

Question 12

“The water, like a witch’s oils,

Burned gree, and blue, and white.”

Answer 12

Gothic elements

Question 13

“And I am next of kin;

The guests are met …”

Answer 13

assonance

Question 14

“Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,

That brings the fog and mist.”

Answer 14

sailors’ second view of the albatross

Question 15

The Mariners’ action that transmits all the guilt upon the Mariner. It is also symbolic.

Answer 15

hang the dead albatross around his neck

Question 16

steers them through the ice; comes to the mariner’s hollo; remains with them for nine evenings

Answer 16

the albatross

Question 17

“Day after day, day after day,

We stuck, nor breath nor motion; …”

Answer 17

“As idle as a painted ship

Upon a painted ocean.”

Question 18

“At length did cross an Albatross”

Answer 18

internal rhyme

Question 19

“A wicked whisper came and made

My heart as dry as dust.”

Answer 19

the Mariner on the ship after the death of his shipmates

Question 20

sailors’ first view of the albatross

Answer 20

They believe it has a “Christian soul” and they “hail it in God’s name.” They believe it is a good omen.

Question 21

dices for the Mariner

Answer 21

Life-in-Death

Question 22

“… who bideth by himself
In the land of mist and snow,
He loved the bird that loved the man
Who shot him with his bow.”

Answer 22

The Polar Spirit

Question 23

“And straight the Sun was flecked with bars …
As if through a dungeon-grate he peered
With broad and burning face.”

Answer 23

the skeleton ship

Question 24

Central One Idea (quote)

Answer 24

“He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.”

Question 25

"O happy living things! no tongue
Their beauty might declare:
A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I blessed them unaware:
Sure my kind saint took pity on me,
And I blessed them unaware."

Answer 25

The Mariner’s epiphany