The Importance of Being Earnest

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  1. 3. Oscar Wilde was not American, he was ...... .
  2. 6. An __________________ is a concise, clever, and sometimes paradoxical statement or line of verse.
  3. 8. Algernon -“the truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
  4. 10. – “in matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.”
  5. 12. The type of place where Jack lives (an extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person, family, or organization): an ________________________
  6. 13. Algernon is the archetype of the _________________ :a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance and personal grooming, refined language and leisurely hobbies.
  7. 15. An expression coined by Oscar Wilde in The Importance of Being Earnest after the fictitious disabled friend of the character Algernon whose supposed illness is used as an excuse to avoid social engagements: _____________________
  8. 16. a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humour: ____________________
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  1. 1. The _________________________ is a late 19th-century European arts movement which centred on the doctrine that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone.
  2. 2. ___________________ :a way of criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way, especially in order to make a political point or a piece of writing that uses this style.
  3. 4. A Christian ceremony at which a baby is given a name and made a member of the Christian Church (a synonym of baptism): _________________
  4. 5. Miss Prism is Cecily’s ______________________ . (a woman employed to teach children in a private household).
  5. 7. Cecily is Jack’s Worthing _______________: a child who is the responsibility of a person called a guardian, because their parents are dead or because they are believed to be in need of protection.
  6. 9. the ability to use words in an amusing and intelligent way
  7. 11. Bracknell– “never speak disrespectfully of society…only people who can’t get into it do that.”
  8. 14. A __________________ is an amount of property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage.