The Dungeon - Key Quotes

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Finish the quote: 'Poor brother...'
'... who offends against us'
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What quote would support the Romantic belief that regardless of a person's actions, they are entitled to a certain level of basic human kindness. This quote also expresses a concern for the punishment than an individual would undergo for their crimes
'and what if guilty?'
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'Is this the only cure?' references what aspect of 1700's society?
The focus on punishment rather than rehabilitation within the Penal System.
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The type of alliteration used in, 'parching poverty' to emphasise the horrific conditions of 18th century prisons is called what?
Plosive alliteration.
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Coleridge uses punctuation such as, 'loathsome plague-spot;', 'their best cure!' and, 'what if guilty?' in the first stanza of The Dungeon to what avail?
To create a more difficult structure for his common readership so that, by contrast, his simpler seconds stanza - about nature - will seem more appealing to them.
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Other readers may argue that the aforementioned use of punctuation can be seen to do what?
Any of these things... any of the wrong answers from the last question... A03 loves it when you have contrasting opinions on a point which are attributed to, 'other readers'.
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'O nature! Healest thy wandering and distempered child: ... Amid this general dance and minstrelsy; ... [he] wins back his way' would be a good quote to support which point?
Other readers disagree that this is Coleridge's intention with his use of punctuation as it does not change in the second stanza. Which of these quotes best supports that?
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What aspect of form and/or structure does Coleridge use to make his second stanza - about the positive effects of nature - more appealing to his common readership.
He makes it shorter.
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What quote would support the Romantic belief that regardless of a person's actions, they are entitled to a certain level of basic human kindness. This quote also expresses a concern for the punishment than an individual would undergo for their crimes

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'and what if guilty?'

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The type of alliteration used in, 'parching poverty' to emphasise the horrific conditions of 18th century prisons is called what?

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Coleridge uses punctuation such as, 'loathsome plague-spot;', 'their best cure!' and, 'what if guilty?' in the first stanza of The Dungeon to what avail?

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