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Unit 5 Flashcards

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What year is the Age of Revolution (the neoclassical and romantic period) ?

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1688-1832

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What year the Neoclassical period ?

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1688-1789

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The belief that human reason rather than revolution or authority is the source of all knowledge and the only valid basis for search

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Rationalism

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A reverence for tradition as a source of authority of values in religion, morality, or art

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Traditionalism

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The philosophical view that all knowledge originates in sensory experience (John Locke’s philosophy that human beings know only what they see, hear, feel, taste, or smell and what they can conclude from reflecting on their sensory experience)

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Empiricism

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Corrective ridicule in literature or a work that is designed to correct an evil by means of ridicule. Not to be confused with verbal irony or sarcasm (Dryden’s “of satire’s” purpose is to upbraid and to warn)

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Satire

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A cultural attraction to the art and throughly of Ancient Greece and Rome. Beginning in 16th century Italy as a result of the study of classical literature

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Neoclassicism

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A reaction against the cultural climate and values of neoclassicism. It insisted on the greater importance of 1) individualism 2) imagination 3) nature and 4) the distant

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Romanticism

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The attempt in fiction to create an illusion of actuality by the use of seemingly random detail or by the inclusion of the ordinarily or unpleasant in life

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Realism

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A long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national or ethnic hero

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Epic

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A short, highly compressed poem making a wise o humorous observation and ending with a witty twist

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Epigram

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A standard type of category of literature

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Genre

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Drama that ends unhappily

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Tragedy

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Drama that ends happily

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Comedy

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A witty and often licentious satirical comedy popular during the reign of Charles ll

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Comedy of Manners

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Highly emotionalized and moralized comedy designed to arouse benevolent feelings

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Sentimental comedy

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Highly emotionalized and moralized tragedy designed to arouse benevolent feelings

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Sentimental drama

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An 18th century reaction against neoclassicism that anticipated romanticism. I’m subject matter writers favored the quality picturesque of the pitiful, aiming to answer humane feelings through scenes of contentment or pathos

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Sentimentalism

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Long, highly stylized lyric poem written in a complex stanza on a serious theme and often for a specific occasion

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Ode

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As pair of rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter

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Heroic couplet

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A poetic foot consisting of two syllables, the second of which is accented it repeats in a line of poetry 5 times

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Iambic pentameter

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An invented prose narrative. Whether it is allegorical or not may serve the purpose of truth and virtue

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Fiction

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The official poet of a nation or religion

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Poet laureate

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Poetry written to enhance or make memorable a particular occasion, normally, public and contemporary

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Occasional verse

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A story within a literal and an implied level of meaning the implied level of meaning may suggest actual persons, places, events, and situations or a set of ideas

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Allegory

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Artificially selected and refined language once considered essential to poetic expression

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Poetic diction

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The inclusion of minute, or even superfluous, details to create an allusion of actuality

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Verisimilitude

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A special form of satire that mocks its subject by incongruous imitation either of its style or content of by incongruous representations in term of high seriousness

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Burlesque

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A minor neoclassical poetic genre in which poetry, usually of high moral seriousness takes the form of an address to a friend

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Verse epistle

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30
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A variation of ballad stanza preudlent among hymns (the first and third lines usually also rhyme)

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Common meter

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In poetic action; a roundabout, more elegant designation of something common

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Periphrases

32
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Consists of four iambic lines, of which the first and third and four stresses and the second and forth have three stresses and rhymes

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Ballad stanza

33
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A nine-line stanza popular among romantic poets rhyming ababbcbcc with eight iambic pentameter lines followed by a line of iambic hexameter

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Spenserian stanza

34
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Why was the Neoclassical period of England’s history was difficult for the common man ?

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England was in transition from an agricultural to an Industrail society

35
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How did England’s domination of the seas helped advance the industrial revolution ?

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By crowding out the French, Dutch, and Spanish from valuable markets and sources of raw materials

36
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Many beliefs of scripture, the Deists rejected what ?

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The deity of Christ, Christ’s death, and bodily resurrection and miracles of scripture

37
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What did the influence of Wesleyanism taught ?

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Taught other worldly values and compassion for the downtrodden and brought an evangelical conscience to England. This dulled the ill effects of the industrial revolution

38
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Why was Dryden called the “first of the moderns” ?

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He foresaw a new age of reasonableness and scientific progress

39
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Which satirical work from Dryden stunned London because of its political impact ?

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“Absalom and Achitophel”

40
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What is “of satire” purpose ?

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To upbraid and to warn

41
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How did Defoe use irony to show the absurdity of Troy punishments for nonconformity ?

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Recommending using harsh punishments when he really believed in not using them

42
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What was Defoe’s most lasting contribution to the novel ?

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Journalistic realism

43
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In Robinson Crusoe, what did Crusoe missed while he was on the island ?

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Conversation

44
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What did Crusoe do in order to compose his mind and keep his sanity while on the island ?

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Resigned himself to the will of God

45
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Defoe wrote was considered what ?

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The first true novel in English

46
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Like The Review, The Tattler became what ?

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A periodical of commentary

47
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The essays found in the Tattler and The Spectator are much like what ?

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Our present-day editors

48
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How did Addison and Steele point out what the superiority of reason over emotion in “White’s Chocolate House) ?

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Exaggerating the young man’s preoccupation with the eh young lady

49
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In Spectator 34, Steele lets the reader know that he has a great respect for what ?

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Traditional religion and clergy

50
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Swifts serious of pamphlets denouncing the exploration of Ireland by Parliament, suggested:

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The reflection of new copper colnage for Ireland
The boycott of English goods
An ironic solution to overpopulation and starvation in Ireland

51
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What is the purpose of “A Modest Proposal” ?

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To get the parliaments attention concerning the means for relieving the ills for the Irish

52
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What was the purpose of “Gulliver’s Travels” ?

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To vex the world rather than to entertains

53
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In “An Essay to Man” seeks to answer what question ?

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Why does evil exist ?

54
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“An Essay to Man” set readers on a what to modern secular humanism ?

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Direct path

55
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In “An Essay on Criticism” how does Pope illustrate the importance of his belief that “sound must seem to an echo to the sense ?

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He writes a serous of lines that sound like the good and bad writing techniques but he is humorously espousing and deriding

56
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George Whitfield was a Calvinist used by God as a what for the Great Awakening of 1735-50 ?

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Catalyst

57
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John Wesley’s work as an author was the outgrowth of what

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Kings wood, Bristol, boarding school

58
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Charles Wesley wrote the following hymns:

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And can it be that I should gain 
Jesus, saver of my soul 
Soldiers of Christ, arise 
Behold the man 
The beautiful sight
59
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In the journal entry for Feb 3, 1770, Wesley attributes Rousseau’s what ?

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Shortcomings to his disdain for the Bible

60
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Why is “Behold the Man” unique English hymnody ?

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Of its dramatic-allegorical narrative quality

61
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Know this statement by John Wesley

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I look upon the world as my parish

62
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Charles Wesley is credited with writing how many hymns ?

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9,000

63
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What did the Wesley’s and Whitefield sharply disagreed about ?

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The Calvinistic doctrine of limited atonement

64
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According to John Wesley’s journal, what did he have ?

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A grasp of Greek and enjoyed Secular as well as sacred reading

65
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During Johnson’s lifetime, what was he best known for ?

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A dictionary of English language

66
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What was Johnson’s method of collecting words that would be part of the dictionary ?

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He read prominent English writers from Sir Philip Sidney until his time, then underlined the words to be included
Sent them to transcribes to be transcribed and filed

67
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In Rambler 61, who was the least tolerable of the tenants who lived in the house ?

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The author

68
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What is the truth in Johnson’s statement “that a single house will show whatever is done or suffered in the world” ?

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The insight and instruction can be gained from the observation of those around you since human characteristics are universal

69
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According to Johnson, what did Dryden lack ?

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Pope’s characteristic of diligence

70
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What is Cowper’s prayer to God for restored fellowship ?

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Walking with God

71
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What is the name of the hymn that Cowper wrote ?

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There is no fountain filled with blood

72
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Cowper abandoned himself in what ?

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His times of spiritual distress

73
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Burns can be classified as what ?

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A nationalist poet

74
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What was Burns also known as ?

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Heaven-taught plowman

75
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What is the poetic device used in both “to a mouse” and “to a louse” ?

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Apostrophe

76
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In “To a Mouse”, why does the speaker say that the mouse is more fortunate than man ?

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The mouse has to deal with the present only whereas man has to deal with the past, present, and the future

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