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The diction Wordsworth advocates is 'the very language of':
AChildren
BNature
CMen
DShepherds
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Men
1. He explicitly rejects ornate 'poetic diction.'
2. 'The very language of men' is his programmatic standard.
3. This launched the Romantic project of plain speech in verse.
_Source: Project Gutenberg #8905 — Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) — "the very language of men"_
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