In Wordsworth's 'I wandered lonely as a cloud': 'I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills'. What does 'wandered' add that 'walked' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'I wandered lonely as a cloud': 'When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils'. What does 'host' add that 'crowd' does not?

In Wordsworth's 'I wandered lonely as a cloud': 'Beside the lake, beneath the trees, / Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.' What does 'Fluttering' add that 'moving' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'I wandered lonely as a cloud': 'Ten thousand saw I at a glance, / Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.' Which idea does 'sprightly' carry that 'quick' does not?

In Wordsworth's 'I wandered lonely as a cloud': 'A poet could not but be gay, / In such a jocund company'. What does the Latin-derived word 'jocund' signal about the speaker?

In Wordsworth's 'I wandered lonely as a cloud': 'For oft, when on my couch I lie / In vacant or in pensive mood'. Which word is closest in meaning to 'pensive' here?

In Wordsworth's 'I wandered lonely as a cloud': 'They flash upon that inward eye / Which is the bliss of solitude'. What does 'solitude' say that 'loneliness' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey': 'These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs / With a soft inland murmur'. What does 'murmur' add that 'sound' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey': 'These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines / Of sportive wood run wild'. What does 'sportive' add that 'growing' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey': 'The sounding cataract / Haunted me like a passion'. What does 'Haunted' add that 'attracted' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey': 'A presence that disturbs me with the joy / Of elevated thoughts'. Why is the word 'disturbs' surprising beside 'joy'?

In Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey': 'Of something far more deeply interfused'. What does the rare word 'interfused' signal about the speaker?

In Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey': 'when like a roe / I bounded o'er the mountains'. What does 'bounded' add that 'traveled' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey': 'Knowing that Nature never did betray / The heart that loved her'. What does 'betray' add that 'fail' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey', 'wreaths of smoke / Sent up, in silence, from among the trees' uses 'wreaths' to give the smoke a curling, ring-like shape.

In Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper': 'Behold her, single in the field, / Yon solitary Highland Lass!' What does the old word 'Yon' do?

In Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper': 'Reaping and singing by herself; / Stop here, or gently pass!' What does 'gently' add that 'quickly' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper': 'Alone she cuts and binds the grain, / And sings a melancholy strain'. What does 'melancholy' add that 'quiet' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper': 'O listen! for the Vale profound / Is overflowing with the sound.' What does 'overflowing' add that 'filled' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper': 'Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow / For old, unhappy, far-off things'. Which meaning does 'plaintive' carry?

In Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper': 'Or is it some more humble lay, / Familiar matter of to-day?' What does 'humble' suggest about that song?

Wordsworth's 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' opens: 'Earth has not any thing to show more fair'. Which sense of 'fair' does the line use?

In Wordsworth's 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge': 'This City now doth, like a garment, wear / The beauty of the morning'. What does 'wear' add that 'have' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge': 'All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.' What does 'smokeless' quietly tell the reader?

In Wordsworth's 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge': 'The river glideth at his own sweet will'. What does 'glideth' add that 'flows' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge': 'Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; / And all that mighty heart is lying still!' What does 'mighty heart' add?

In Wordsworth's 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge', 'A sight so touching in its majesty' uses 'majesty', which is plainer and more everyday than 'beauty'.

In Wordsworth's 'The world is too much with us': 'Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers'. What does 'lay waste' add that 'use up' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'The world is too much with us': 'We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!' What does 'sordid' add to 'boon', a word meaning gift?

In Wordsworth's 'The world is too much with us': 'Great God! I'd rather be / A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn'. What does 'outworn' admit about that older faith?

In Wordsworth's 'The world is too much with us': 'Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.' What does naming Triton, a Greek sea god, do at the close?

In Wordsworth's 'The world is too much with us': 'This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon'. What does 'bares her bosom' add that 'lies open' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality': 'The earth, and every common sight, / To me did seem / Apparelled in celestial light'. What does 'Apparelled' add that 'covered' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality': 'But trailing clouds of glory do we come / From God, who is our home'. What does 'trailing' add that 'carrying' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality': 'Shades of the prison-house begin to close / Upon the growing Boy'. What does 'prison-house' add that 'walls' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality': 'At length the Man perceives it die away, / And fade into the light of common day.' What does 'common' add to 'day'?

In Wordsworth's 'A slumber did my spirit seal': 'Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, / With rocks, and stones, and trees.' What does the formal word 'diurnal' add that 'daily' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'A slumber did my spirit seal': 'She seemed a thing that could not feel / The touch of earthly years.' What does calling Lucy a 'thing' do?

In Wordsworth's 'She dwelt among the untrodden ways': 'A violet by a mossy stone / Half hidden from the eye!' What does 'Half hidden' add that 'growing' would not?

In Wordsworth's 'She dwelt among the untrodden ways': 'But she is in her grave, and, oh, / The difference to me!' What does the plain word 'difference' do here?