Question

Burton’s prose style in The Anatomy of Melancholy was shaped by:

• A. Encyclopaedic scope required expansiveness.
• B. His fascination with excess and compendiousness
• C. He delighted in accumulation of detail.
• D. Style became infinitely extensible.

Answer 1

Answer:

B. His fascination with excess and compendiousness

• Encyclopaedic scope required expansiveness.

• He delighted in accumulation of detail.

• Style became infinitely extensible.