Poetry - Wordsworth (Preface to Lyrical Ballads - 1802)

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1. Where does poetry take its origin?

  • 'emotion reinvigorated in tranquillity'
  • 'emotion recollected in tranquillity'
  • 'emotion redefined in tranquillity'
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2. What should naturally determine what selection of language is used?

  • the subject
  • the passion
  • the poet
  • the object

3. What does it take to make the ordinary unusual?

  • imagination
  • poetic diction
  • metre
  • sensibility

4. Metre can both tame the passion or put passion into the .....

  • language
  • reader
  • verse
  • poet

5. Wordsworth feels low, rural subjects have stronger, truer feelings because they are 'less under the influence of......'

  • social vanity
  • social hierarchy
  • social appearance

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