Starter quiz

  • In which century was 'The Prelude' published?
    • 17th century
    • 18th century
    • 19th century  ✓
    • 20th century
  • What does the 'The Prelude' tell the story of?
    • Wordsworth's childhood spent at home with his family
    • Wordsworth's childhood spent ice-skating with his friends  ✓
    • Wordsworth's childhood spent isolated at boarding school
    • Wordsworth's childhood spent without his mother
  • How did Wordsworth describe the group of children in 'The Prelude?
    • like wild horses
    • like hunting dogs  ✓
    • like a shoal of fish
  • What method does Wordsworth use in the following quotation from 'The Prelude': "Proud and exulting, like an untir’d horse"?
    • simile  ✓
    • metaphor
    • pathetic fallacy
    • onomatopoeia
  • Complete the quotation from Wordsworth's 'The Prelude': "The ______ windows through the twilight blaz'd,".
    • 'cottage' ✓
  • Starting with the first, put the following quotations from 'The Prelude' in chronological order.
    • 1
      And in the frosty season, when the sun
    • 2
      I heeded not the summons: – happy time
    • 3
      It was a time of rapture: clear and loud
    • 4
      The village clock toll'd six; I wheel'd about,
    • 5
      We hiss'd along the polish'd ice, in games
    • 6
      Meanwhile, the precipices rang aloud,
    • 7
      The orange sky of evening died away.
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