18th Century English

Petticoat, muslin, panniers, corsets and stockings are part of the lexical field of...

• Beauty
• Clothing
• Travel
• Leisure

A 'coquette' is a pejorative term for...

• A flirtatious female
• A flirtatious male
• A woman of strict morals
• A wife

The creator of the first English Dictionary was...

• John Locke
• Robert Lowth
• Samuel Johnson
• William Caxton

The first Dictionary is chiefly associated with the language movement known as...

• Descriptivism
• Prescriptivism
• The 'crumbling castle' analogy
• Free schools

The joining together of the letters 'c' and 't' in 18th Century printing presses is known as what?

• Long S
• Long T
• Ligature
• Cursive

18th Century sentences are known for being...

• Multi-clausal with high frequence of semi-colon use
• Short and simple

• Completely unpunctuated, as there was no precedent for this
• Always written in direct address

The interchangeability of 'S' and 'F' in many words is usually known as...

• The Long 'F'
• A ligature
• The Long 'S'
• A typographical error

A 'rakehell' or 'rake' was an established term by this century for...

• A young man of questionable morals
• A devout religious believer
• A practical man
• An elderly man

'Advice manuals' were popular for young ladies. What sorts of things did they usually advise?

• Options for suitable working arrangements
• How to be a wit in company

• Conduct in romance and marriage, proper dress and deportment
• How to best challenge the social order

A common structural feature of texts intended for public consumption was...

• A series of rhyming couplet headings
• A bold title, followed by an alternative title which gave more information
• A rhetorical device
• Prominent listing