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Age of Reason

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*poet laureate of period   show
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biographer   show
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*dean of st patricks   show
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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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show Pope for satire  
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*worked at pay office   show
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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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show a bitter, angry, destructive wordplay that ridicules a subject in a scathing way; “A Modest Proposal”  
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Horatian satire   show
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mock epic   show
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show record of the events of someone’s life written by the person; focused more on the personal reaction to the events; The Diary  
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Journal   show
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show the summation of a person’s life written by someone other than the person who wrote it; The Life of Samuel Johnson  
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show lyric poem about death longing for things no longer present; formal piece; solemn, reflective; “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”  
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Grub Street   show
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show supernatural being who inspires a writing; John Caryll Rape of the Lock  
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Essay   show
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show 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  
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show a brief prose discussion contained within a publication that comes out at intervals of longer than one day; “Will Wimble”  
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show two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter; Rape of the Lock  
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show written so well as to be considered fact; Journal of the Plague Year  
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Aphorism   show
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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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show 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”  
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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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show Pope  
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show Pope  
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/u/ Rape of the Lock   show
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show Johnson  
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"Letter to Chesterfield"   show
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show Boswell  
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"The Elegy"   show
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show Gray  
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