Restoration Test

Question 1

appearance; image

Answer 1

semblance

Question 2

light up

Answer 2

illumine

Question 3

violate a law or command

Answer 3

transgress

Question 4

artful trickery

Answer 4

guile

Question 5

stubborn

Answer 5

obdurate

Question 6

turbulent; stormy

Answer 6

tempestuous

Question 7

exceeding beyond all limits

Answer 7

transcendent

Question 8

humiliation; dishonor

Answer 8

ignominy

Question 9

a commoner

Answer 9

plebeian

Question 10

a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings

Answer 10

stoic

Question 11

Author of Paradise Lost

Answer 11

John Milton

Question 12

2 authors best known for satire

Answer 12

Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift

Question 13

Neoclassic literature was modeled after what?

Answer 13

Modeled after Latin works. Hence the name meaning “new classic”.

Question 14

define elegy

Answer 14

a mournful poem, usually written in remembrance of a lost one for a funeral or as a lament.

Question 15

define ode

Answer 15

a classical poem that has a specific structure and is aimed at an object or person; expresses high praise

Question 16

define satire

Answer 16

A kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform

Question 17

Who is considered the founder of English Prose?

Answer 17

William Tyndale?

Question 18

The author of “Gulliver’s travels”

Answer 18

Jonathan Swift

Question 19

define omber

Answer 19

card game played in The Rape of the Lock

Question 20

define mock epic

Answer 20

A long humorous narrative poem that takes something unimportant and elevates it by using the styles of true epics.

Question 21

List three appeals used in satire

Answer 21

Logical appeal (facts and statistics), emotional appeal (strong feelings), and Ethical appeal (sincere and qualified)

Question 22

Tell two ways that “Rape of the Locke” is similar to “The Odyssey” in format/structure

Answer 22

Gods and goddesses are involved in the action, There is a Muse, Epic Similes, Hero/Heroine, elaborate descriptions, boasting speeches. Both are epics that rhyme. Epic similes or homeric similes, which are elaborate comparisons.

Question 23

Tell one of the allusions to “The Odyssey” in “Rape of the Locke”

Answer 23

It calls on a muse to guide the story.
The card game is presented as an epic war. Belinda is described in masculine terms. The baron has 3 attempts to take the lock. The number 3 is prevalent in epics. In the Rape of The Lock it represents the attempts to overthrow Troy. The taking of the lock represents the taking of Helen. (Helen is in the Odyssey) (the odyssey takes place after the fall of Troy, which Odysseus was involved in)

Question 24

According to Satan in Paradise Lost, why does good exist

Answer 24

? God brings forth good out of evil

Question 25

Name two of the benefits outlined in “A Modest Proposal”.

Answer 25

1. It would lessen the number of Papists being the being the principal breeders of the nation as well as their most dangerous enemies.
2. The poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own. (bearing children) and can pay rent to their landlords
3. The nation’s stock will increase because of the amount of children, and the money will circulate, besides the profit of a new dish introduced to gentlemen of all fortune, because the goods are of their own growth and manufacture.
4. The constant breeders, besides the gain of money by the sale of their children, will be rid of the charge of maintaining their children after the first year.
5. The food will bring great customs to taverns, and recipes will be made to perfection, as the taverns will be visited by fine gentlemen who value themselves on their knowledge in good eating. A skillful cook will make the dishes as expensive as he pleases.
6. It would bring a great inducement to marriages. It would increase the care and tenderness of mothers toward their children. Men would become as fond of their wives during the time of their pregnancy
7. There will be less demand for beef and pork because a child will taste better.