MCQ on Preface to Lyrical Ballads

The first edition of Lyrical Ballads was published in __?

• 1798

• 1799

• 1804

• 1800

The principle object in the Lyrical Ballads was to choose incidents and situation from___

• urban life

• common life

• agrarian life

• genteel life

For Wordsworth the function of poetry is to give___

• joy

• happiness

• pleasure

• catharsis

According to Wordsworth, prose and poetry differs by___

• emotions

• rhythm

• metre

• style

Wordsworth quoted ______ who said, " Poetry is the most philosophical of all writings. "

• Horace

• S. T. Coleridge

• Dr. Samuel Johnson

• Aristotle

In the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth calls for poetry to be written in what kind of language?

• Typically poetic and fanciful language

• Complicated and difficult language

• Common, everyday language

Wordsworth justifies the use of metre and condemn the use of___

• Rhyme

• Verse

• Poetic diction

• Tradition