#81 , VOCABULARY TEST QUESTIONS 801 TO 810

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VOCABULARY TEST #81, QUESTIONS 801 TO 810.
The test dealt with Diction of great writers in English Literature. The task was to fill the blanks with the words used by the writers in the original work. The ten words used by them were given in the Test.

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WORDS LIST
1. Affection 2. Love 3. Fondness 4. Affinity 5. Adoration 6. Passion 7. Attraction 8. Warmth 9. Fervor 10. Yearning.
2,10, 8, 6, 5, 3, 7, 4, 9, 1 .

801.

'What black melancholy is tormenting you? Either you are wasting with LOVE, or some star is casting an evil spell over you. Saturn's star has often been baleful to shepherds, and his slant leaden shaft has pierced your inmost breast.' (John Milton: Damon's Epitaph)

WRITER'S ATTENTION--->Note the free flow of the sentences. Definitely not a rhetoric from the Epic Poet.

802.

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the YEARNING of thy bowels and thy compassions are restrained toward me. (Isaiah: 63/15)

803.

This queen will live: nature awakes; a WARMTH
Breathes out of her: she hath not been entranced
Above five hours: see how she grins to blow
Into life's flower again! (Shakespeare: Pericles, Prince of Tyre)

804.

Now Conscience chills her, and now PASSION burns;
And Atheism and Religion take their turns;
A very heathen in the carnal part,
Yet still a sad, good Christian at her heart. (Alexander Pope: Essay on Man)

WRITER'S ATTENTION--->Note the balance which Pope achieves between "carnal part" and "Christian heart". It is not penchant for rhyme.

805.

Indeed, his passionate ADORATION
of the Emperor was even stronger: he wished to sacrifice something--everything, even himself--to prove his complete devotion. (Leo Tolstoy: Father Sergius.)

806.

All observers were struck by the intense FONDNESS of the frontiersmen for the woods and for a restless, lonely life. (Theodore Roosevelt: The winning of the West).

WRITER'S ATTENTION--->Note the keen observing deft skills of Theodore Roosevelt.

807.

The sun's a thief, and with his great ATTRACTION robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun. (Shakespeare: Timon of Athens)

WRITER'S ATTENTION--->Note the imagery used by the Bard: Moon as arrant thief and the Sun as thief.

808.

"... Who shall say there is not AFFINITY enough between (at least the bundle of sticks that produced) many of these pieces, or granulations, and those blue berries?" (Walt Whitman: Complete Works of Prose, Volume 5)

809.

"... he had drawn forth
A passionate light such for his spirit was fit--
And yet that spirit knew--not in the hour
Of its own FERVOR --what had o'er it power." (Edgar Allan Poe: In Youth I have known one)

810.

"... Whatever earthly AFFECTION he abandoned or grasped, the great Admiral was always, before all, beyond all, a lover of Fame. He loved her jealously, with an inextinguishable ardour and an insatiable desire--he loved her with a masterful devotion and an infinite trustfulness. ..." (Joseph Conrad: The Mirror of the Sea. [The Great Admiral here referred-to was: Lord Nelson])

WRITER'S ATTENTION--->Note the two word phrases embellished with strong attribute adjectives: inextinguishable ardour, insatiable desire, masterful devotion, infinite truthfulness.