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English 104 Brit Lit
Woznak SFU
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What century is the main focus of this exam? | 18th century |
| What is this period usually called? Other terms this period is called? | Neoclassical Age; Age of Reason; Age of Satire; The Enlightenment |
| What does the prefix "Neo" mean? | New |
| What does the ending "classical" refer to | Greek and Latin literature |
| What are the subdivisions of Neoclassicism | Restoration Age ; Augustan Age; Decline of Neoclassicism |
| What does Augustan refer to? | High point of the Roman of the Empire ; High point of Neoclassicism |
| Characteristics of Neoclassicism | The Universal - write what everyone knows Reason - totally rational (no emotions) Greek and Latin Allusions Satire |
| What is satire? | a literary manner which blends a critical attitude with humor and wit to the end that human institutions may be improved |
| 2 major type of satire and who it relates to | Gentile Horation : Pope Harsh Juvenalian : Swift |
| What is the great chain of being? Name order | An ordered hierarchy of existences Angels ; Humans ; Animals ; Insects ; Microscopic Organisms |
| What is the central link of the GCOB? Why? | Humans ; Both body and soul |
| Why is man a potential destructive link? | Pride |
| What is a heroic couplet | iambic pentameter line that rhyme in pairs |
| What is a Mock Heroic Epic characteristics? | Fantastic Hero ; Long Narrative Poem ; High Descriptive Language ; Disgression ; Battle Between Equal Opponents |
| What is Deism? What does is believe in? | The religion of the age of reason ; God is a watchmaker |
| What were Pope's 2 handicaps? | a bone disease = 4' 6'' tall ; religion = Catholics |
| What are 6 literary works? | Pastorals ; "The Essay of Criticism" ; "The Rape of the Lock" ; "The Essay on Man" ; Translations ; The Dunciad |
| What does Pastoral mean? | rural area |
| The Rape of the Lock was written at the request | John Caryll |
| ROTL : Feud between who? Real name and Names in ROTL | Lord Petre vs Lady Arabella Fermor Baron vs Belinda |
| ROTL What kind of story | Mock Heroic Epic |
| ROTL What did Pope add in order to make it a MHE | Battle : Ombre and Machinery |
| ROTL What is Ombre | Card Game played by the rich |
| ROTL What is 4 orders of Spirit? | Salamanders ; Nymphs ; Sylphs ; Gnomes |
| ROTL Describe the Sylphs: Element; Previous Life; Their Hell | Air ; Flirts ; Protect Chastity of living women |
| ROTL Describe the Gnome: Element; Previous Life; Their Hell | Earth ; Prudes ; Make sexual mischief |
| ROTL The original had how many cantos | 2 |
| ROTL The final draft had how many cantos | 5 |
| ROTL Who is the boss of the Sylphs? | Ariel |
| ROTL When do the Sylphs leave? | When you fall in love |
| ROTL Who is the boss of the Gnomes | Umbriel |
| ROTL Who is Belinda's "helper"? | Thalestris |
| ROTL Who is Thalestris boyfriend? | Sir Plume |
| ROTL The beliefs of the spirits are based on what religion | Rosicrusians |
| ROTL Where does Thalestris get her name | Queen of the Amazons |
| ROTL Who is the Baron's helper | Clarissa |
| ROTL Why does Clarissa agree to help to Baron? | She sees herself in Belinda |
| ROTL What does Clarissa say in her speech? | " Charm strikes the sight , Merit strikes the soul" |
| ROTL What is a another term for love letter | Billet Doux |
| ROTL What are Belinda's sacred rites of pride | Putting on her makeup |
| ROTL What is Hampton Court | Queen's House |
| ROTL Why are Belinda's eyes described as Bright and Beatuiful like the sun | Her don't discriminate between the trivial and important |
| ROTL What sacred rites of Love | Declare he will get her hair by force or by fraud |
| ROTL What is the Baron's alter made of | French Romances |
| ROTL What does the Baron sacrifice on the alter | 1 glove and 3 garters uses Billet doux to set them on fire |
| ROTL Who was the queen at the time | Queen Anne |
| ROTL What does queen do at hampton court | takes council and takes tea |
| ROTL What do they say about gossip | with every word a reputation dies |
| ROTL Who wins in the first battle ( Ombre)? | Belinda |
| ROTL What do they drink at Hampton court? | Coffee |
| ROTL How does the Baron get the lock of hair | Scissors from Clarissa |
| ROTL Who does Umbriel visit to help him cause mischief? | The Goddess Spleen |
| ROTL What does the spleen contain? | M.A.R. Melancholy Anger of Rich People |
| ROTL Who are the two henchmen of spleen? What do the three of them represent? | Pain and Megrim (Migrine) ; Trinity |
| ROTL What are the 2 gifts spleen gives to Umbriel? | Bag - "Female Lungs" Sighs Vial - Tears |
| ROTL What happens to the 2 gifts? | Bag - dumped on Belinda and Thalestris Vile - Belinda |
| ROTL The Baron's condemning quote? | "So long as my nostrils draw air i will not return the hair" |
| ROTL What are Belinda's two weapons in the Battle of the Sexes? | Snuff and Bodkin |
| ROTL What happened to Belinda's lock | Muse tells us it became a shooting star / comet |
| What is Pope's Satire on nature? | Essay on Man |
| EOM Who inspired EOM? | John Bolingbroke |
| EOM What religion did John Bolingbroke describe himself as? | Deist |
| EOM What is the topic ? | vidicate the ways of god to man |
| EOM What do weeds and flowers represent? | vices and virtues |
| EOM What is suggested topic to people? | stay in your place ( social class) |
| EOM What makes humans human quote? | "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" |
| EOM What is the quote that sums up the EOM | "Whatever is, is right" |
| What are Pope's three translations? | Homer's Iliad and Odyssey ; Shakespeare's work |
| Which of Pope's translation was a failure? | Shakespeare's work |
| Which of Pope's work deals with the general theme of dullness in poetry? | The Dunciad |
| Which critic torn apart Pope's Shakespeare Translation? | Lewis Theobald |
| Who was originally the chief dunce in the Dunciad? | Lewis Theobald |
| Who was the chief dunce changed to in the Dunciad? | Colly Cibber |
| Who was Colly Cibber? | Poet Laureate of England |
| Who was the best the English prose satirists? | Jonathan Swift |
| What style did Jonathan Swift write in? | Prose |
| What type of satire does Swift write in? | Juvenalian |
| What are some paradoxes of Swift? | Irish son and English parents ; Grandfathers F: Puritan M:Anglican ; Son of a dead Father ; Kidnapped by nanny ;criticized Whig supporters was one ; defended the Irish but hated them ; Genius died insane |
| Which of Swifts works mocked Religion and scandalized Queen Anne? | Tale of a Tub |
| What are Swift's main works that we talk about? | Modest Proposal ; Battle of the Books; Tale of a Tub; Gulliver's Travels |
| Who did the Battle of The Books seek to defend | Sir William Temple |
| What did the Battle of the Books deal with? | literary controversy over which authors were valuable Ancients or Moderns |
| What kind of story is Battle of Books? What happens? | Mock Heroic Epic ; ancient and modern books battle in St. James Library |
| What is Tale of a Tub about? | Three brothers changes they made to a coat their father gives them |
| MP: What is a persona? | Mask that the author wears |
| What is Swift persona is Modest Proposal? | Projector |
| What is a Projector? | Believes that science could solve political issume |
| MP: Where did the idea to eat children come from | A knowledgeable American |
| MP Why can t children older than 14 be killed? | Almost breeders ; Meat to tough |
| MP: Children math equation: | 120,000 children born - 20,000 breeders = 100,000Food |
| MP : 7 Fake Benefits | 1) New Recipes 2) Rid of Catholics 3) Poor will have something valuable they own 4) Stock Market will go up 5) Parent rid of expense of raising child 6) Family life would improve - No abuse , men would marry pregnant women 7) Export beef (children) |
| MP : 7 Real Proposals | 1) Tax Absentee Landlords 2) No more Imports 3) Settle down our women 4)Learn to Love Ireland 5) Stop the factions 6) Teach Landlords to be merciful 7) Shopkeepers to be honest |
| GT Art in satire ? | 1 improbability per voyage |
| GT: Aid to Satire | Scatological Vision ; Excremental Vision ( likes body waste) |
| GT As the Voyages go on Gulliver becomes? | More Gullible |
| GT As the Voyage go on the satire becomes | Stronger |
| GT: Links between Voyage I and II | 12:1 Ratio 6'' = Lilliputians 72' = Brobdingnagian Size indicates Character (Big size = big heart , small size = small mind) Gulliver Innocently Breaks GCOB Perspective ( I Telescopic II Microscopic) Arrivals and Departures |
| GT: Name of Ships in Voyage I | Antelope |
| GT How does Gulliver arrive in Lilliput | Act of Nature - Storm = Shipwreck |
| GT How does Gulliver depart Lillput | Man Inhumanity Lillputians want to kill him and he escape to Belfescu |
| GT What are the Trials of Dexterity | Political Games to get into office |
| GT What is the Edict on Eggs | Religion Big end - Catholics(Belfescu) small end Anglicans (Lilliput) |
| GT What country does Belfescu represent | France |
| GT What position does Gulliver get for winning the war | Nardac |
| GT What are the two plans for killing Gulliver from the Lilliputians? | Plan A: Poison Plan B: Blind / Starve |
| GT How does Gulliver arrive in Brobdingnag? | Man Inhumanity - Crew Deserts him |
| GT How does Gulliver leave Brobdingnag? | Act of Nature - Giant Eagle |
| GT How does the Dwarf bother Gulliver? | Places him in bowl of cream ; Hallows out marrow and places Gulliver in a bone ; Shakes an Apple Tree Gulliver is under |
| GT What does Gulliver say is man's greatest invention | Gunpowder |
| GT Who are the immortal people of Luggnagg? | Struldbrugs |
| GT How do you cheat on your husband in Laputa? | Supply him with paper Supply him ink Dismiss his Flapper |
| GT What are the two types of inhabitants in Voyage IV | Houyhnhnms and Yahoos |
| GT What ship does Gulliver sail on in Voyage IV | Adventure |
| GT What the name of the ship in Voyage II? | Adventure |
| GT The Houyhnhnm are.....creatures | rational |
| GT The yahoos are... creatures | animalistic |
| GT In Voyage IV what was Gulliver's job on the ship? | Captain |
| GT How does Gulliver arrive in IV to Houyhnhnmland | Man's Inhumanity and Gullibility Pirates crew mutinies and Maroons Gullivers |
| GT Who is Gulliver is the care of in Voyage IV | Master Gray Horse / Master Houyhnhnm |
| GT 4 ways Gulliver is the source of Satire | Describes how horses are used in England Explains Lying Explains Doctors Trashes- Legal System |
| GT With complete rational behavior what are the great evil | No love Slavery Genocide of Yahoos replace with donkeys |
| GT Two ways the Houyhnhnms decide to get rid of Gulliver | Plan A: Casterate Him and make him swim Plan B: No cateration and allow him to create a canoe |
| GT What does Gulliver make his canoe out of? | Yahoo skin |
| GT Is Gulliver worse or better for his travels | Worse |
| GT Who saves Gulliver in the Canoe? | Don Pedro de Mendez |
| GT What is a misanthrope | A person that hates people |
| GT WHo does Swift add to prove he (Swift) is not a misanthrope | Don Pedro de Mendez |
| GT Why should Don Pedero and Gulliver hate each other? | Portuguese Catholic vs English Anglican |
| Who writes in the Romantic style? | William Wordsworth |
| What period does Wordsworth write in? Writes about? | Romantic ; Nature / Memory as Salvation |
| Who writes in the Victorian style? | Robert Browning |
| What period does Browning write in? Writes about? | Victorian ; History |
| The last Duchess is written as a... ? | Dramatic Monlouge |
| Who is the speaker in the last duchess | Duke of Ferara |
| Who painted the painting in the last duchess | Fra Pandolf |
| What period did Langston Hughes write in | Harlem Renaissance |
| What is Langston Hughes poem? | "What happens to a dream deferred?" |
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