Essays and Sermons
Aphorism
A witty, concise proverb-like saying
The Tatler and Spectator papers were produced by _____. Addison Coleridge Wordsworth Bacon Steele
Addison And Steele
An Englishman who wrote essays about travel, truth, riches, and other serious subjects was _____. Addison Bacon Wordsworth
Bacon
The two English poets who wrote literary essays about poetry were _____. Bacon Coleridge Wordsworth Addison Steele
Coleridge Wordsworth
The elderly emphemera felt that his struggles in life were worth it because he gained a name for himself. True False
False
Franklin claimed to have heard and understood the conversation of ephemera, a type of _____. foreigner insect fairy
Insect
The word essai, or essay, was first used by a French man named _____. Charbonneau Montaigne Delano
Montaige
The emphemera's lifespan was so Choose... short long that it measured its life by Choose... minutes decades years hours .
Short and minutes
French writings similar to essays were called pensees, or ______.
Thoughts
Two styles of essays are _____.
formal and informal
In the final paragraph of the selection, Franklin writes: To me, after all my eager pursuits, no solid pleasures now remain, but the reflection of a long life spent in meaning well, the sensible conversation of a few good lady ephemerae, and now and then a kind smile and a tune from the ever amiable Brillante . In this paragraph when he refers to "the conversation of good lady epehemerae," he means _____. he will carry on sensible discussions with only female insectsfemales are more sensible than maleshe expects to listen to bugs the rest of his life even though their lives are shorter the women he enjoys talking with have life spans as short as his own
the women he enjoys talking with have life spans as short as his own
The word essay originally meant _____. write try argue
to try