A. exaltation
B. pleasure
C. dictation
D. purgation
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Literary Criticism MCQs
Wordsworth said that Poetry is the image of
A. Man and Science
B. Man and Society
C. Man and Nature
D. Nature and Science
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Wordworth’s poet is a man speaking to
A. everyone
B. his readers
C. men
D. nature
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Wordsworth feels that Poetry is the image of
A. human beings and nature
B. men and women
C. God and human
D. man and nature
✅ The correct answer is option D.
According to Wordsworth the understanding of the reader must necessarily be in some degree…
A. Enlightened
B. Disheartened
C. Motivated
D. Contentment
✅ The correct answer is option A.
To Wordsworth, poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, emotions recollected in
A. images
B. tranquility
C. simple life
D. sensation
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Wordsworth believes that a poet is,
A. “a man speaking to poets”
B. “a man speaking to men”
C. “a man speaking to human”
D. “a man speaking to God”
✅ The correct answer is option B.
An Appendix on Poetic Diction was added to the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads in_____.
A. 1800
B. 1798
C. 1805
D. 1802
✅ The correct answer is option D.
For Wordsworth the function of poetry is to give
A. joy
B. happiness
C. catharsis
D. pleasure
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Wordsworth states, “Poetry sheds no tears such as Angels weep, but natural and
A. earthly tears”
B. childish tears”
C. human tears”
D. mournful tears”
✅ The correct answer is option C.