The Prelude BBC teach vide

Where does the event in 'Extract from, The Prelude' by William Wordsworth take place?

• The Lake District in North West England

• The Scottish Highlands

• Snowdonia in Wales

• The Cotswolds

What does Wordsworth do in the poem?

• Goes for a walk in the forest

• Steals a rowing boat and rows across Ullswater Lake

• Writes a letter

• Climbs a mountain

How is nature personified in the poem?

• As 'her'

• As a fierce warrior

• As a gentle guide

• As a wise old man

What effect does the huge mountain have on Wordsworth?

• It inspires him to write a poem

• It terrifies him, making him row back to shore

• It has no effect on him

• It makes him feel at peace with nature

Which poetic movement did William Wordsworth belong to?

• The Enlightenment

• The Modernists

• The Romantic poets

• The Victorian poets

What is a key convention of Romantic poetry highlighted in the poem?

• An embrace of urban life

• A focus on scientific progress

• A dislike of urban life and embrace of the natural world

• A preference for classical forms

How does Wordsworth initially feel about taking the boat?

• Guilty and hesitant

• Proud and powerful

• It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure

• Indifferent

What literary device is used to describe the continuation of a sentence beyond the end of a line?

• Alliteration

• Enjambment

• Simile

• Metaphor

Which poems are suggested for comparison with 'Extract from the Prelude' in terms of the power of nature?

• 'Ozymandias', 'My Last Duchess'

• 'Kamikaze', 'Storm on the Island', 'Exposure'

• 'Tissue', 'London'

• 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Daffodils'

What does the repetition of 'no' in the poem signify?

• The speaker's excitement

• The speaker's loss of pride and confidence

• The speaker's inability to recognize nature

• The speaker's growing confidence