Starter quiz
- Personification means...
- a detailed analysis and assessment of a text.
- words that imitate the natural sound associated with their meaning.
- attribution of human characteristics to non-human things. ✓
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- Which pair of words rhyme?
- "stone" and "frown"
- "reclined" and "mind" ✓
- "air" and "there" ✓
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- Which of the following is an accurate summary of Wordsworth's 'Lines Written in Early Spring'?
- The speaker is upset at how unruly and chaotic nature is.
- The speaker considers nature as beautiful and harmonious. ✓
- The speaker is praising how unified mankind is while sitting in nature.
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- 'Blended' means...
- something separate
- something combined ✓
- something positive
- something negative
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- Arguably, by repeating "what man has made of man", Wordsworth's intentions in 'Lines Written in Early Spring' are...
- to celebrate mankind's achievements.
- to celebrate mankind's reverence for nature.
- to lament mankind's actions. ✓
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- Which two emotions might the word "heaven" create as used in 'Lines Written in Early Spring'?
- joy ✓
- terror ✓
- sadness
- anger
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Exit quiz
- Reverence means having...
- deep respect for something ✓
- some respect for something
- little respect for something
- no respect for something
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- Half-rhyme means...
- a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds ✓
- a correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words
- there are no rhyming words in the poem
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- Arguably, the imperfections in Wordsworth's 'Lines Written in Early Spring' suggests...
- mankind is imperfect ✓
- Wordsworth is imperfect
- nature is imperfect
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- Euphonic sounds are...
- noiseless sounds
- harsh sounds
- pleasing sounds ✓
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- Which meter is the line "What man has made of man", taken from 'Lines Written in Early Spring', written in?
- iambic pentameter
- iambic tetrameter
- iambic trimeter ✓
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- The mixed feelings of awe and terror in response to a phenomenon is known as the...
- 'sublime' ✓
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Key learning points
- Wordsworth presents nature as beautiful and harmonious through vocabulary and euphonic sounds.
- Arguably, Wordsworth presents nature as beautiful and harmonious to suggest we should have reverence for nature.
- On the other hand, Wordsworth may present nature as beautiful to emphasise the chaos of mankind.
- Wordsworth breaking the regular rhyme and rhythm could represent the imperfections of mankind.
Common misconception
The 'sublime' refers to something solely positive.
While the 'sublime' suggests a reverence and awe for something, it also implies ideas of feeling insignificant and overwhelmed by it which therefore adds the idea of terror or fear.
Keywords
Sublime - the mixed feelings of awe and terror in response to a phenomenon
Half-rhyme - a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds
Euphony - the combining of words that sound pleasant together or are easy to pronounce
Reverence - deep respect for someone or something
Personification - attribution of human characteristics to non-human things
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