Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth's advocacy of poets drawing on the "language really used by men" in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________?
Correct answer: A. a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
- A. a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
- B. a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.
- C. a rejection of nature in favor of society.
- D. a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.
Explanation
Wordsworth’s principle rejects the artificial, highly elevated diction associated with much eighteenth-century poetry and turns instead to ordinary speech shaped by emotion. This marks a major Romantic break from neoclassical poetic rules.
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