Excerpt From The Prelude

Question 1

William Wordsworth

Answer 1

Part of romantic era
Parents died when he was 15
Hated tyranny and political facisim

Question 2

“Blaz’d”

Answer 2

Delays the verb

Deforms natural word order - importance is amplified

Question 3

‘Summons’ ‘heeded’

Answer 3

1) How insistent it’s felt
2) triumphant is the refusal to listen
Defiance of call which is a minor tyranny

Question 4

Rapture

Answer 4

Diffenrte degree and intensity between him and friends

Intense passionate repsonse

Question 5

‘Wheels’ ‘exulting’ ‘untired’

Answer 5

Emphasise physical exuberance of the game they play

Intense

Question 6

Shod steel hissed polished

Answer 6

Sibilance to produce sound of skates on ice

Question 7

‘Precipices rang aloud and every ice crag tinkled like iron’

Answer 7

Nature responding and participates in their games.

Ww thinks it does and deepens his experience

Question 8

Tinkled like iron

Answer 8

Nature is a tuning fork amplifying the children’s game

Question 9

Sound of melancholy

Answer 9

Darkens the mood

Timeless expressions of nature - eternal stars and dying day

Question 10

Form

Answer 10

Unrhymed blank verse

Pentameters