Match the underlined words in the lines from John Milton's Paradise Lost with their definitions. You may use a dictionary or any
other reference material if you do not know the meaning of a word based on the context alone. Tiles:
-Distress
-Cunning
-Eternal Punishment
-Grassy Area
Pairs:
-With hideous ruine and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
-Under a tuft of shade that on a green
Stood whispering soft, by a fresh Fountain side
-Both of lost happiness and lasting pain
Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes
That witness'd huge affliction and dismay
Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate
-Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
These are the lines from John Milton's Paradise Lost and their definitions:
<u>Distress:</u> Both of lost happiness and lasting pain / Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes / That witness'd huge affliction and dismay / Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate
<u>Cunning:</u> Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile / Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
<u>Eternal Punishment:</u> With hideous ruine and combustion down / To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
<u>Grassy Area:</u> Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side
That which goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers. In the sentence, "The witches cast their spells," the antecedent of the pronoun "their" is the noun "witches."
