2999English LiteratureMedium
Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth’s advocacy of poets drawing on the “language really used by men” in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents________?
Aa radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
Ba rejection of nature in favor of society.
Ca defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.
Da continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.
Correct answer
A. a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
Explanation
The correct answer is a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction..