British Lit Unit 5 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Which Cowper poem is his prayer for restored fellowship? | "Walking with God" |
| In "To a Mouse," why does the speaker say the mouse is more fortunate than man? | The mouse has to deal with the present only. The man has to deal with past, present and future. |
| What is the poetic device used in "To a Mouse" and "To a Louse"? | apostrophe |
| How did England's domination of the seas help advance the industrial revolution? | crowding out the French, Dutch and Spanish from valuable markets and sources of raw materials |
| Which writing style is defined as "the rule of reason in all areas of life"? | rationalism |
| Which author's "Journal" showed he had a grasp of Greek and enjoyed secular as well as sacred reading? | John Wesley |
| What is the verse form of The Deserted Village? | heroic couplet |
| What is the purpose of satire? | to upbraid and to warn |
| In which poem were the cottagers were given the opportunity to emigrate to America, become a factory hand, or stay in the village as a laborer? | The Deserted Village by William Goldsmith |
| Why was the neoclassical period of England's history difficult for the common man? | transition from agricultural to industrial society |
| What was the purpose of a young man going on a "grand tour"? | to broaden his viewpoint by making it more cosmopolitan |
| Which poetic device is expressed in these lines from Elegy? "Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile,/The short and simple annals of the poor" | personification |
| Johnson said "that a single house will show whatever is done or suffered in the world". What does this mean? | Insight and instruction can be gained from the observation of those around you since human characteristics are universal. |
| How did Addison and Steele point out the superiority of reason over emotion in "White's Chocolate House"? | by exaggerating the young man's preoccupation with the young lady |
| At the end of his life, what was Johnson's basis for salvation? | Christ's death |
| In Robinson Crusoe, what did Crusoe miss most while on the island? | conversation |
| In An Essay on Criticism, how does Pope illustrate the importance of his belief that "the sound must seem an echo to the sense"? | Pope writes a series of lines that sound like the good and bad writing styles he is humorously using and deriding |
| What trait of Johnson's overshadows his shortcomings? | conversational abilities |
| What present-day writings can the essays in The Tatler and The Spectator be compared to? | editorials |
| What fundamental question does An Essay on Man seek to answer? | Why does evil exist? |
| What writing style does this line from Winter use? "Thither the household feathery people crowd" | periphrasis |
| In the journal entry for February 3, 1770, to what does Wesley attribute Rousseau's shortcomings? | disdain for the Bible |
| Why was it so hard for Boswell to meet Johnson? | Johnson's lifestyle was irregular |
| What is the thesis of "Heavenly Joy on Earth"? | heavenly joy should begin before the Christian reaches heaven. |
| What are some neoclassical writing elements in Elegy? | subject, intense moralization, poetic diction |
| What are some romantic writing elements in Elegy? | solitary meditation, rural landscape and use of natural description to create a mood |
| Why is "Behold the Man" unique in English hymnody? | dramatic-allegorical narrative quality |
| Which of Pope's characteristics did Dryden lack? | diligence |
| England's conflicts were satirized by having the breaking of an egg result in extreme consequences and having the Lilliputians solve their problems quickly. Who wrote this? | Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels |
| Who foresaw a new age of reasonableness and scientific progress and was called the "first of the moderns"? | John Dryden |
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