English 1139 test
Robert Cawdrey
... complied A Table Alphabetical of Hard Words in the seventeenth century
Peter Roget
..... complied the thesaurus, which is a dictionary of synonyms
Samuel Johnson
....... is best known for his A Dictionary of the English Language
James Thomson
......., a Literature of Sentiment poet, wrote The Seasons
William Cowper
A familiar line from the hymn "Light Shining Out of Darkness" by ... affirms "God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm
Thomas Gray
A graveyard was the setting for one of the most famous poems in all of British literature, "Elegy Written in the Country Churchyard" by ...
Oliver Goldsmith
Auburn was the name of "The Deserted Village". a well-loved poem by ......
(A) distant
Contiguous
Frequency of use
Definitions in a dictionary are arranged according to ......
(A) Uneducated
Erudite
(A) metropolis
Hamlet
Noah Webster
In 1806 ... complied the first dictionary of American English
Spellings, definitions, synonyms, antonyms, syllable divisions, parts of speech
List six kinds of information that can be found in most dictionaries
Samuel Johnson
Lives of the English Poets exemplifies the literary criticism that gained ... the title "father of British literary criticism"
William Cowper; John Newton
Olney Hymns is the product of two Christian poets, ... and ...
(A) Calm
Ostentatious
(A) wealth,
Penury
(A) Give
Pillage
(A) river
Rill
(A) talk
Ruminate
Samuel Johnson
Sober was the idler in the "Idler", and William Shakespeare was the author critiqued in The Preface to Shakespeare-- both written by ...
(A) Discord
Solace
Robert Burns
Some often-quoted lines of ... are these two: "The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley" "O, my luve is like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June;"
(A) cleanness
Squalor
Etymology
The ... gives the language origin of a word and the meaning of the word in that language
Inflected form
The ........ of a word shows the different spellings for principal parts of verbs and plural spellings of irregular nouns
Edward Gibbon
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is the historical work of ...
William Cowper
The Task and "The Stricken Deer" were written by ...
James Boswell
The biography, The Life of Samuel Jackson, LL.D. was written by ...
parts of speech
The meaning of entry words in a dictionary are grouped together according to ...
A _____________ is a dictionary of synonyms
Thesarus
(A) chaotic
Tranquil
(A) permanent
Transient
Robert Burns
Typical of the Literature of Sentiment poets, Scottish poet ... wrote poems like "Scots, Wha Hae," "A Red, Red Rose," and "To a Mouse"
(A) silent
Verbose
Literary Club
a "think tank" dedicated to literary pursuits
elegy
a mournful, melancholic poem for the dead
The word_____________ means a collection of sayings
dictionary
neoclassicism
emphasized reason
Literature of Sentiment
focused on the capacity of man to feel
Age of Johnson
named after Samuel Johnson
Battle of Culloden
signaled the end of monarchical absolutism in Britain
epitaph
statement on a tombstone in memory of the dead
personification
the literary technique of giving human qualities to an animal or nonliving thing
blank verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter
American War for Independence
was the result of British colonial policy
