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