What to study:
Vocabulary
(Definitions, synonyms, antonyms, word parts)
- Chapter V (Lessons 16 – 30), congratulate – vociferous, pp. 176 – 202
N.B. Start at Lesson 16
- Chapter VI, “Words from Classical Mythology and History,”
Adonis – titanic,pp. 203 – 214
- Chapter VII, “Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary” and “Latin-Derived Synonyms and Near-Synonyms for Anglo-Saxon Words,” aboard – nuptials, pp. 215 – 231
- Chapter VIII, “French Words in English,” au-courant – vis-à-vis,
pp. 232 – 255
Spelling
- Lists 13 – 22
Literature
The Romantic Period
Lives of the poets and authors
Quotations from all works of literature on this list
Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
William Blake, “The Lamb,” “The Tyger”
William Wordsworth “The World Is Too Much with Us,” “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”
George Gordon, Lord Byron “She Walks in Beauty”
Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ozymandias,” “Ode to the West Wind”
John Keats “When I Have Fears” “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
The Victorian Period
Alfred, Lord Tennyson "In Memoriam, Lyric # 7," “Ulysses”
Robert Browning “Porphyria’s Lover “My Last Duchess”
Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach
Thomas Hardy “The Man He Killed, ” “Ah, Are Your Digging on My Grave?”
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”
A. E. Housman “To an Athlete Dying Young”
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
