Which statements describe Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language? Check all that apply. It was published in the late 1800s. It includes over forty thousand definitions. It includes information about word origins. It has a preface written by William Shakespeare. It offers excerpted examples of the words in literature.

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.