1. The title of this chapter is a quotation. What
from? _________________________________
2. How many new words, according to the text, were added to
English during the Renaissance?
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3. What was then - and is still – the
language from which most scientific words are formed
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4. What source language do the following words come
from:
a. portico ___________________________________________________________
b. embargo __________________________________________________________
c. detail _____________________________________________________________
5. What is meant by the expressions “inkhorn terms”
and “plainnesse”
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6. The text says: “Almost any word could be used in
almost any part of speech”
give three examples: a __________________________________________________
b __________________________________________________
c __________________________________________________
7. What is meant by “The Lost Colony”? __________________________________________
8. Finish the following sentence from the text:
“if you think it is high time and that that is the
long and short of it, if you believe that the game is up and that truth will
out even if it involves your own flesh and blood, if you lie low till the
crack of doom because you suspect foul play, if you have your teeth set on
edge (at one fell swoop) without rhyme or reason, then - to give the devil
his due - if the truth were known (for surely you have a tongue in your head)
you are ….”
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9. What proof is there that Shakespeare’s works were
not written – as some people suggest – by Christopher Marlowe? _______________________________________________________________________
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10. How large was Shakespeare’s vocabulary? __________________________________________
11. What has Shakespeare’s English got to do with
modern-day American English?
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