Question 1

Each of the quotations below come from Pride and Prejudice , a novel that came in second when the BBC did a large poll in 2003 to find out the "UK's Best Loved Books." ( The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien came in first.)

Which answer choice(s) contain a nuance move that we have learned so far in either the first course in our Good with Words: Writing and Editing series or this second course?

Mark all that apply.

"[F]or you are really proud of your defects in writing, because you consider them as proceeding from a rapidity of thought and carelessness of execution, which, if not estimable, you think at least highly interesting."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"The time fixed for the beginning of their northern tour was now fast approaching, and a fortnight only was wanting of it, when a letter arrived from Mrs. Gardiner, which at once delayed its commencement and curtailed its extent."

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

Question 2

In a letter Austen wrote to her sister Cassandra on October 27, 1798, Austen uses the "un-" move to describe one of their nephews, who was three years old at the time.

I shall think with tenderness and delight on his beautiful and smiling countenance and interesting manner, until a few years have turned him into an ungovernable, __________ fellow.

Fill in the blank.