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Age of Reason

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show John Dryden  
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show Johnson  
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show Jonathan Swift  
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*under secretary of state   show
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show Pope  
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show Samuel Pepys  
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*perfected heroic couplet   show
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show Samuel Pepys  
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show Daniel Defoe  
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show 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”  
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Juvenalian satire   show
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Horatian satire   show
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show long heroic comical poem that merely imitates features of the classical epic; “Paradise Lost”  
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diary   show
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Journal   show
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biography   show
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elegy   show
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show areas where the writers who were selling their works for profit lived; Defoe and Johnson  
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Muse   show
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show serious, dignified, logically organized prose discussion written to inform or persuade; “Essay on Man”  
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Periodical   show
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periodical essay   show
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heroic couplet   show
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verisimilitude   show
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show short statement that embodies a moral lesson; “Essay on Man”  
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show short witty verse ending with a wry twist; “Essay on Criticism”  
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epigraph   show
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epitaph   show
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ode   show
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show Pepys  
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"A Modest Proposal"   show
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show Addison  
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show Steele  
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"Essay on Criticism"   show
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"Essay on Man"   show
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/u/ Rape of the Lock   show
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show Johnson  
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show Johnson  
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show Boswell  
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"The Elegy"   show
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"Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat"   show
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