Prelude.

Question 1

What poetry movement did William Wordsworth help create?

Answer 1

Romanticism.

Question 2

What is a “cove”?

Answer 2

A small sheltered bay.

Question 3

What type of poetic feature is “…through the water like a swan;”?

Answer 3

Simile.

Question 4

What word does William Wordsworth use to describe his act of stealing?

Answer 4

“An act of stealth”.

Question 5

What does William Wordsworth fix his eyes on as he rows?

Answer 5

“A craggy ridge”.

Question 6

What does the poetic term “enjambment” mean?

Answer 6

When a sentence carries on over more than one line.

Question 7

“There hung a darkness”.

Answer 7

darkness hanging-represents his change to a darker mood at the end of the journey.
-dark and sinister tone.
-reflecting on the conflict in his mind of the juxtaposed
peaceful side of nature and the harsh extremes it also
contains “big and mighty forms”.

Question 8

Structure.

Answer 8

-44 lines in blank verse (no real structure).
-iambic pentameter-consistent pace.
journey the poet is on becomes rougher and words like ‘and’ repeated-breathless pace and feel.