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Age of Reason
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| *poet laureate of period | John Dryden |
| biographer | Johnson |
| *dean of st patricks | Jonathan Swift |
| *under secretary of state | Addison |
| *dwarf person | Pope |
| *shorthand writer | Samuel Pepys |
| *perfected heroic couplet | Pope for satire |
| *worked at pay office | Samuel Pepys |
| *spokesman for lower classes | Daniel Defoe |
| Satire | a technique that employs wit (wordplay) to ridicule a subject, usually some social institution or human failing with the intention to inspire reform; “A Modest Proposal” |
| Juvenalian satire | a bitter, angry, destructive wordplay that ridicules a subject in a scathing way; “A Modest Proposal” |
| Horatian satire | Employs light witty ridicule that makes society laugh at itself; more wordplay and more humorous than Juvenalian; “Letter to Chesterfield” |
| mock epic | long heroic comical poem that merely imitates features of the classical epic; “Paradise Lost” |
| diary | record of the events of someone’s life written by the person; focused more on the personal reaction to the events; The Diary |
| Journal | an account of day to day events meant for publication, focuses on observation; Journal of the Plague Year |
| biography | the summation of a person’s life written by someone other than the person who wrote it; The Life of Samuel Johnson |
| elegy | lyric poem about death longing for things no longer present; formal piece; solemn, reflective; “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” |
| Grub Street | areas where the writers who were selling their works for profit lived; Defoe and Johnson |
| Muse | supernatural being who inspires a writing; John Caryll Rape of the Lock |
| Essay | serious, dignified, logically organized prose discussion written to inform or persuade; “Essay on Man” |
| Periodical | any publication that comes out at intervals of longer than one day (weekly, monthly, yearly): the forerunner to the modern magazine; The Tatler, The Spectator, The Rambler |
| periodical essay | a brief prose discussion contained within a publication that comes out at intervals of longer than one day; “Will Wimble” |
| heroic couplet | two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter; Rape of the Lock |
| verisimilitude | written so well as to be considered fact; Journal of the Plague Year |
| Aphorism | short statement that embodies a moral lesson; “Essay on Man” |
| Epigram | short witty verse ending with a wry twist; “Essay on Criticism” |
| epigraph | a short quotation at the beginning of a work, usually written in a foreign language, that summarizes the content of the piece; “Alexander Selkirk” |
| epitaph | inscription on a tombstone in memory of the person buried there; “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” |
| ode | long lyric poem that is formal in style and complex in form often written to commemorate or celebrate a special quality, object, or occasion; “Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat” |
| /u/ The Diary | Pepys |
| "A Modest Proposal" | Swift |
| "Will Wimble" | Addison |
| "Alexander Selkirk" | Steele |
| "Essay on Criticism" | Pope |
| "Essay on Man" | Pope |
| /u/ Rape of the Lock | Pope |
| /u/ The Dictionary | Johnson |
| "Letter to Chesterfield" | Johnson |
| /u/ The Life of Samuel Johnson | Boswell |
| "The Elegy" | Gray |
| "Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat" | Gray |
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