Eng Flashcards
Very hungry ; desiring or consuming food in great quantities
Unusually eager or enthusiastic abput an activity
Voracious
The distance of measurement of something from side to side
Great extent of something
An open and tolerant view of the world & life
Breadth
Bustle : noisy & bustling activity
Hurly-burly
Something trivial : little or no importance
Small amount
Cold dessert
Trifle
Make guess about something on basis of evidence
A conclusion drawn by evidence or intuitive feeling
Surmise
To give compensation to someone for injury or loss
Pay or reward someone for their service
Compensation, remuneration
Recompense
Someone circulating something disapproved
Commerial supplier of goods
Purveyor
A band of decoration along the wall pf the room
Coarse, shaggy wooden cloth
Frieze
A taditional saying considered as the general truth
Adage
An excessive quantity of something that people get sickened or bored about it
Overindulgence of something - food and drink
Surfeit
To experience sever stomach pains
To irritate someone
To complain
Gripe
A small songbird; brown & a short upright tail
Wren
Ill mannered
Awkward : clumsy and ungrateful
Uncouth
Empty
Alone
Grim : dismal and gloomy
To make place barren
To make someone feel sad
Desolate
Formally renounce something : to give up previously held belief formally
To deny, reject or avoid something
Abjure
Width
Breadth
Who wrote ‘How Do I Love Thee?’
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Which sonnet was how do I love thee?
Sonnet 43
When and where was she born?
Durnham, England ; 1806
What did her parents own & where?
Sugar plantations in jamaica
What did she experience at 15 years old?
Respiratory ailment and spinal injury because of horse riding
Where did she go with her brother?
Italy
How did her brother die?
Drowned in a sailing accident which made her more ill
Hpw many years dis she confine herself?
5 years
What was the name of the young lad whom poems she praised?
Robert Browning
Over ____________ they exchanged ______ letters
1 year and 8 months (24 months) ; 574 letters
Whem did they make ‘tanan’
1846
When did elizabeth die?
1861
Memorize how doI love thee
Okay :p
The road not taken is a work by
Robert Lee Frost
Robert lee frost was an _____ with depictions for ____
American poet ; Rural life
What prizes did he recieve?
4 pulitzer prizes for poetry
When and where was he born
San francisco , March 26 1874
His mother and father?
William Perscott Frost and Isabelle Moodie
When did his father die?
May 5 1885
When he graduatw from highschool?
1892
When did he sell his forst poem and wht is it?
My butterfly : An elegy ; 1894
When frost was ___ he performed a reading of his poetry at the inaguration of president ________
86 ; John F. Kennedy
He died on
January 29 1963
