LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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In his preface to “Lyrical Ballads", Wordsworth calls for poetry to be written in what kind of language?
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Typically poetic and fanciful language
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Ancient languages
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Complicated and difficult language
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Common, everyday language
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -What is poetic language? Poetic language (also called poetic devices) are the tools of of sound or meaning that a poet can use to make the poem more surprising, vivid, complex, or interesting. Examples of these tools include alliteration, onomatopoeia, imagery, metaphors and similes, and allusion.
Detailed explanation-2: -Poetry and prose, he says, differ only as to presence or absence of rhyme; they do not differ as to language. For Wordsworth, the important thing was the emotion aroused by the poem, not the poem itself (hence his lukewarm regard for form).
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