Word Meaning in the Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language — Unit test

Question 1

Read the passage from "An Essay on Man.”Self-love and reason to one end aspire,Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire;

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Pope uses antithesis and a heroic couplet to show a similarity between self-love and reason.

Question 2

Read the passage from "An Essay on Man.”And to their proper operation stillAscribe all Good, to their improper, Ill.Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.

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antithesis in the line “Ascribe all Good; to their improper, Ill.”

Question 3

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compare them to the features of the atom.

Question 4

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it is not doubted, that this invention may be capable of great improvement

Question 5

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He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers

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