The Importance of Being Earnest

3. 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. Oscar Wilde was not American, he was _____________.
8. A __________________ is an amount of property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage.
11. A Christian ceremony at which a baby is given a name and made a member of the Christian Church (a synonym of baptism): _________________

1. a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humour: ____________________
2. the ability to use words in an amusing and intelligent way
3. An __________________ is a concise, clever, and sometimes paradoxical statement or line of verse.
4. The ________________________ Movement is a late 19th-century European arts movement which centred on the doctrine that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone.
5. 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.
7. 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: _____________________
9. Miss Prism is Cecily’s ______________________ . (a woman employed to teach children in a private household).
10. Algernon is the archetype of the _________________ :a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance and personal grooming, refined language and leisurely hobbies.
12. ___________________ :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.