Starter quiz

  • What type of poem is 'Extract from The Prelude'?
    • biographical
    • autobiographical  ✓
    • fictional
  • How does Wordsworth show his naivety in the line from 'Extract from the Prelude': ''I fixed my view upon the summit of a craggy ridge, the horizon's utmost boundary''?
    • he is scared of a small mountain
    • he believes a small cliff is the highest point of nature  ✓
    • he thinks he can row without being restricted by the craggy ridge
  • What marks the volta of 'Extract from The Prelude'?
    • Wordsworth sees a weak animal in the water
    • Wordsworth nearly drowns
    • Wordsworth sees a huge mountain peak  ✓
  • How does Wordsworth view nature after the volta of 'Extract from The Prelude'?
    • tranquil
    • dominant  ✓
    • beautiful
  • Which quote best illustrates Wordsworth's reflection on experiencing the sublime?
    • ''Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men''  ✓
    • ''no colours of green fields''
    • ''with trembling oars I turned''
  • ''But huge and mighty forms, that do not live like living men, moved...through the mind by day, and were a trouble to my dreams.'' Why might Wordsworth have been ''troubled'' by his experience?
    • He believed nature was going to hurt him
    • It was an uncomfortable existential thought that nature was superior to man  ✓
    • He did not know how to tell his family about what he had seen
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