A. Coherence and cogence
B. relevance and contemporariness
C. relativity, clarity and imaginativity
D. time, Nature and Universality
✅ The correct answer is option D.
SSC MCQs
Poetry is “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” according to
A. Arnold
B. T. S Eliot
C. Johnson
D. Wordsworth
✅ The correct answer is option D.
The Principal object in the Lyrical Ballads was to choose incidents and situations from
A. urban life
B. agrarian life
C. common life
D. genteel life
✅ The correct answer is option C.
A primary function of poetry according to Wordsworth is to give ___________ for his readers
A. Knowledge
B. Pleasure
C. Idea
D. Truth
✅ The correct answer is option B.
The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was published in
A. 1798
B. 1799
C. 1800
D. 1801
✅ The correct answer is option C.
According to Wordsworth ____________ is not essential to poetry
A. Metre
B. Imagination
C. Talent
D. Rhyme
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Wordsworth was primarily
A. a critic
B. a poet
C. an essayist
D. a philosopher
✅ The correct answer is option B.
The only difference between the language of Prose and the language of Poetry is_________
A. Use of Rhythm
B. Use of Words
C. Use of feelings
D. Use of Metre
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Wordsworth’s preface can be seen as a forceful plea for simplicity both in
A. idea and feeling
B. sentiment an d exposition
C. expression and elucidation
D. theme and treatment
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Who comments, “the end of writing is to instruct, The end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing”
A. Shakespeare
B. Arnold
C. Dr. Johnson
D. None of the above
✅ The correct answer is option C.