Self Test Flashcards
was the result of British colonial policy
American War for Independence
statement on a tombstone in memory of the dead
epitaph
a mournful, melancholic poem for the dead
elegy
Writer of “A Dictionary of the English Language”, “Lives of the English Poets”, “Idler” and “The Preface to Shakespeare”
Samuel Johnson
Writer of “The Deserted Village” and “The Vicar of Wakefield”
Oliver Goldsmith
Writer of “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”
Edward Gibbon
________________ exemplifies the literary criticism that gained Samuel Johnson the title “father of British literary criticism.”
Lives of the English Poets
Writer of “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”
James Boswell
Writer of “The Seasons”
James Thomson
Writer of “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” and its setting
Thomas Gray; graveyard
Writer of “Scots, Wha Hae,” “A Red, Red Rose,” and “To a Mouse.”
Robert Burns
Writer(s) of “Olney Hymns”
William Cowper and John Newton
Who wrote “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft alley,” and “O, my love is like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June;”
Robert Burns
Writer of “Light Shining Out of Darkness”
William Cowper
“God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm” is from where and by who?
Light Shining Out of Darkness, William Cowper
Writer of “A Table Alphabetical of Hard Words” in the 17th century
Robert Cawdrey
Compiled the first dictionary of AMERICAN ENGLISH in 1806
Noah Webster
Compiled the thesaurus, a dictionary of synonyms
Peter Roget
The meanings of entry words are grouped together according to _________________; definitions in a dictionary are arranged according to ___________________.
parts of speech; frequency of use
The __________________ of a word shows the different spellings for principal parts of verbs and plural spellings of irregular nouns.
inflected form
The _______________ gives the language origin of a word and the meaning of the word in that language.
etymology
One must learn to let the Holy Spirit rule one’s _______________________ and ____________________.
motivational gift; temperament
Our ____________ affects our responses in a given circumstance.
temperament
