William Wordsworth

Question 1

relating to or occurring in the spring

Answer 1

vernal

Question 2

morally degraded; base

Answer 2

sordid

Question 3

thoughtful; reflective

Answer 3

pensive

Question 4

luminous brightness; radiance

Answer 4

lustre

Question 5

Has three quatrains (four lines) and a concluding couplet (two lines). The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

Answer 5

English or Shakespearean snnet

Question 6

repose; stillness

Answer 6

tranquility

Question 7

an expression that, in addition to an obvious meaning, carries a second, subtle meaning (often at variance with the ostensible meaning)

Answer 7

adianoeta

Question 8

sad; sorrowful

Answer 8

forlorn

Question 9

a natural endowment or gift

Answer 9

dower

Question 10

a meadow

Answer 10

lea

Question 11

a short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker

Answer 11

lyric poem

Question 12

Has two parts, an octave (eight lines) followed by a sestet (six lines). The octave rhyme scheme is ABBAABBA, and the sestet rhyme scheme is CDECDE, or another variation such as CDCCDC, or CDCDCD.

Answer 12

Italian or Petrarchan sonnet

Question 13

lively; spirited

Answer 13

sprightly

Question 14

a swamp

Answer 14

fen

Question 15

a sea god who could change his shape whenever he wants

Answer 15

Proteus

Question 16

“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers”

Answer 16

“The World is Too Much with Us”

Question 17

In “London, 1802,” Wordsworth beseeches whom?

Answer 17

John Milton

Question 18

“It is a Beauteous Evening”

Answer 18

Wordsworth views the sun setting over the sea in the evening.

Question 19

what the speaker sees “all at once”

Answer 19

“a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

Question 20

“the fields, and to the sky”

Answer 20

“Ships, towers, domes, theatres, adn temples lie open unto …”

Question 21

“she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside …”

Answer 21

the main components of English society

Question 22

“Ten Thousand I saw at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance”

Answer 22

personification in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

Question 23

“It is a Beauteous Evening,” Wordsworth addresses whom?

Answer 23

a young girl

Question 24

In “Composed Upon Westminister Bridge,” Wordsworth compares the beauty of the London morning to this …

Answer 24

the natural beauty of the Earth

Question 25

“For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood …”

Answer 25

“They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.”

Question 26

the major distinction in “the Tables Turned”

Answer 26

being out in Nature and book learning

Question 27

“Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart”

Answer 27

Milton

Question 28

“So might I, standing on this pleasant lea …”

Answer 28

“Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn”

Question 29

“Our meddling intellect … “

Answer 29

“Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: -

We murder to dissect.”

Question 30

What the City wears like a garment

Answer 30

the beauty of the morning