Power of Nature

What is Romanticism?

• Popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Romanticism was a literary movement that emphasised nature and the importance of emotion and artistic freedom.

• Popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Romanticism was a literary movement that emphasised love and romance.

• Popular in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Romanticism was a literary movement that emphasised memory.

• Popular in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, Romanticism was a literary movement that emphasised nature and the importance of emotion and artistic freedom.

Who wrote 'Extract from The Prelude'?

• William Blake

• William Wordsworth

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Seamus Heaney

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Where did William Wordsworth grow up?

• The Lake District

• The Gabilan Mountains

• Crystal Palace Park

• The Grand Canyon

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It was said Wordsworth was...

• "Orphaned by history"

• "Orphaned by nature"

• "Orphaned by the lake"

• "Orphaned by pain"

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Hubris is defined as:

• Excessive Pride

• Excessive Ignorance

• Excessive Power

• Excessive Hatred

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Wordsworth uses assonance in the opening of the poem by repeating the vowel sound "I". This is to show the young boy's ____________

• Anger

• Power

• Hubris

• Weakness

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"Huge Peak, Black and Huge" is the ________ in the poem.

• End

• Enjambment

• Anaphora

• Volta

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The mountain can be seen as a symbol of the young boy's _______________

• Friend

• Monster

• Conscience

• Hubris

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By the end of the poem, the boy is punished as the experience becomes a ____________

• "Trouble to my thoughts"

• "Trouble to my being"

• "Trouble to my dreams"

• "Trouble to me pride"

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In Seamus Heaney's Storm on the Island, the Storm is a metaphor of ___________

• The ethno-nationalist conflict between the Catholic and Protestants called 'The Troubles'.

• The battle between the working and upper class

• WW1

• WW2

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