Starter quiz
- What type of poem is 'Extract from The Prelude'?
- biographical
- autobiographical ✓
- fictional
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- 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
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- 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 ✓
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- How does Wordsworth view nature after the volta of 'Extract from The Prelude'?
- tranquil
- dominant ✓
- beautiful
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- 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''
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- ''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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