Lit test idk

Question 1

wrote a dictionary of the English Language

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Samuel Johnson

Question 2

Samuel Johnson’s greatest work

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Lives of the English Poets

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a devoted friend and contemporary of Samuel Johnson

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John Wesley

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wrote “The Life of Samuel Johnson”

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James Boswell

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The Rambler:

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“Vice should always disgust”

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called the Father of the Modern Hymn

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Issac Watts

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welcomed solitude

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Thomas Gray

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Elegy:

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a lyric poem honoring the dead

Question 9

Grey published what in 1751

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“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

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Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard

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Famous line: “The paths of glory lead but to the grave”

a tribute the the poor who have no monument

Question 11

wrote The Deserted Village

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Oliver Goldsmith

Question 12

able to excel artistically in periodical essay, the novel, the drama, and the formal poem

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Oliver Goldsmith

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struggled with mental illness and depression

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William Cowper

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his poetry marked the passing of Neoclassicism

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William Cowper’s

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known as the “Heaven-taught plowman”

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Robert Burns

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belongs to the 18th century Scottish literary nationalism

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Robert Burns

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one of the great masters of 18th century satire

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Robert Burns

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wrote “A Red, Red Rose”

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Robert Burns

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wrote Robinson Crusoe

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Daniel Defoe

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Father of the English novel

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Daniel Defoe

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first great English journalist

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Daniel Defoe

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Verisimilitude

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the use of exact details to make a work appear real

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a book popular with the puritan lower-middle class

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Robinson Curusoe

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Crusoe’s only companions on the island

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Poll, 1 dog, 2 cats

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the first of the moderns

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John Dryden

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influenced the next three generations with his ideal of conversational plainness

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John Dryden

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epigram:

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a short, highly compressed poem which makes a wise or humorous point

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"On Milton"

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three poets: Homer, Virgil, and Milton

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known for establishing the heroic couplet as the dominate verse form

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John Dryden

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they transformed journalism into serious literature

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Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

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"The model of the middle style"

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Joseph Addison

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influenced Benjamin Franklin

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Joseph Addison

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considered the greatest English prose satirist

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Jonathan Swift

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wrote A Modest Proposal

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Jonathan Swift

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wrote Guliver's Travels

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Jonathan Swift

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Swift's motivation for writing GT

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his hatred for mankind

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origin of Swift's bitterness

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his becoming an orphan, the treatment of the Irish, Queen Anne's blocking him form becoming a Bishop in the church of England

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chief poet of his age

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Alexander Pope

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Pope was deformed because of

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an attack of spinal tuberculosis

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next to Shakespeare, he is the most quoted of the British writers

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Alexander Pope

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wrote "An Essay on Criticism"

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Alexander Pope

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Deism:

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belief that God reveals Himself soley through His word

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the prevalent attitude during the Neoclassical Period

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rationalism

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rationalism:

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the rule of reason in all areas of life

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England remained strong in spite of

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threats of war and war between 1688 and 1785

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England changed from an agricultural nation to a

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industrial nation

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the commercial hub of England

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London

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wanted to revive the Anglican church

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John Wesley and George Whitefeild

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influences of Wesleyanism

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spiritually: laid a foundation for moral times and encouraged faith in God industrially: lessened bad effects of the Industrial Revolution

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during Neoclassic period, this thing changed

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British spoken English became distinct from American Spoken English

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literature was divided into genres

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meant either to delight or to teach

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consisted of two rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter

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heroic couplet

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with the rising of the middle class, a new profession evolved

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journalism

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wrote the first of the new genre, novel

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Daniel Defoe

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satire:

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corrective ridicule in literature