17th and 18th Century Assessment

Question 1

amanuensis

Answer 1

a person employed to write or type diction; scribe

Question 2

apostrophe

Answer 2

writing to a person who is not present or to a personified object

Question 3

bard

Answer 3

person who composed and recited with some type of instrument; poet-singer

Question 4

Catholic (capital C)

Answer 4

Catholicism

Question 5

catholic (lowercase c)

Answer 5

universal idea

Question 6

couplet

Answer 6

two lines of verse with the same meter, joined by rhyme

Question 7

dialect

Answer 7

the way that a group of people in a certain area speak (the language, speech, or speech patterns of a particular region or group of people)

Question 8

elegy

Answer 8

a poem of serious reflection, often for the dead

Question 9

enjambment

Answer 9

the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

Question 10

epistles

Answer 10

a letter that comes in the form of prose or poetry

Question 11

epitaph

Answer 11

A short poem intended for (or imagined as) an inscription on a tombstone and often serving as a brief elegy.

Question 12

heroic couplet

Answer 12

a form of poetry used in epics and narrative poems which, consists of pairs of rhyming lines

Question 13

inversion

Answer 13

the syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence

Question 14

lyrical

Answer 14

expressing the writer’s ideas in a melodic way

Question 15

metaphysical

Answer 15

thinking beyond what we perceive with our senses; abstract thinking, highly theoretical

Question 16

mock epic

Answer 16

A satirical form that produces ridicule and humor

Question 17

pastoral

Answer 17

work of literature that focuses on the relationship between humanity and nature in a rural environment.

Question 18

quatrain

Answer 18

a four-line stanza of poetry

Question 19

satirical

Answer 19

a way of writing about a flaw or failure in society

Question 20

Scotts

Answer 20

people from Scotland

Question 21

syncope

Answer 21

a literary device that involves the shortening of a word by removing or omitting letters

Question 22

turn

Answer 22

a rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion.

Question 23

blank verse

Answer 23

verse without rhyme that uses iambic pentameter

Question 24

Time period of the 17th century

Answer 24

1600-1700

Question 25

Time period of the 18th century

Answer 25

1700-1800

Question 26

John Donne’s Life:

Answer 26

17TH CENTURY - 1572-1631
- Greatest non-dramatic poet of the early 17th century
- Founder of the metaphysical writers
- Family were serious Catholics, he eventually left the Church
- Poetry seculat, rakish
- 1615 become Anglican Priest, poetry becomes religious, love, nature

Question 27

Andrew Marvell’s Life:

Answer 27

17TH CENTURY - 1621-1678
- Supported Puritan ideals
- Had a good education, 1659 became a member of parliament

Question 28

Ben Jonson’s Life:

Answer 28

17TH CENTURY - 1572-1637
- Agressive/combative individual
- Jailed/killed a man, experience led him to become Catholic
- Wrote non-dramatic poetry

Question 29

John Milton’s Life:

Answer 29

17TH CENTURY - 1608-1674
- Very studious, went to Cambidge/Chirst College
- Went to college for 12 years, most educated
- known as being girlish/squeamish
- became a Puritan in1643, went blind in 1652
- controversial became of political views

Question 30

Daniel Defoe’s Life:

Answer 30

18TH CENTURY - 1660-1781
- born in London
- Not very wealthy(father was butcher)
- Unsuccessful businessman so turned to writing
- Wrote hundreds of works

Question 31

Jonathan Swift’s Life:

Answer 31

18TH CENTURY - 1667-1745
- Born in Dublin,Ireland (but fam. was English)
- English fam. that moved to Ireland
- Had connections with wealthy people but not wealthy themselves
- receive education through his uncle
- Lived in both worlds (poor+rich)
- Works are simple, direct, precise prose *not poetry
- Master Satirist

Question 32

Thomas Gray’s Life:

Answer 32

18TH CENTURY - 1716-1771
- 2nd most important of 18th century
- Disappointment to his peers bc he did not publish all the works he had written
- Born in Cornhill (only one of siblings to survive infancy, father crazy)
- didn’t care for father, death of closet friend (Richard West) in 1742 devastated him
- 30 yold became reclusive did not leave country

Question 33

Robert Burns’ Life:

Answer 33

18TH CENTURY - 1759-1796
- Born in Scotland(voice of Scotland)
- Fam. lived in extreme poverty
- fell in love at 15 y old and wrote his 1st poem
- Relationship with Jean Armour (tumultuous)
- 14 children(very spread out)
- wrote in a way the common people would understand (Scots)

Question 34

William Blake’s Life:

Answer 34

18TH CENTURY - 1757-1827
- Born in London
- had visions of seeing God (starting at 4 yold)
- End of his life was in poverty, wrote what he wanted (not popular) so didn’t make much money
- Believed people being the voice of the gov.

Question 35

Who wrote “Song”

Answer 35

John Donne
man has to leave, no matter what women and man will stay together

Question 36

Who wrote “To His Coy Mistress”

Answer 36

Andrew Marvell
the conflict between love and time (flirty/secular)

Question 37

Who wrote from “Paradise Lost”

Answer 37

John Milton
was Satan apart of God’s plan?

Question 38

Who wrote from “A Journal of the Plague Year”

Answer 38

Daniel Defoe
- black plague
- death is the equalizer

Question 39

Who wrote “Modest Proposal”

Answer 39

Jonathan Swift
-Satire
-Poor are a burden on the country
-Rich people are are trying to find a easy method of decreasing the amount of people living in poverty instead of actually trying to solve it.

Question 40

Who wrote “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

Answer 40

Thomas Gray
- in the end we all die and no matter your status everyone wants to be remembered

Question 41

Who wrote “To a Mouse”

Answer 41

Robert Burns
- Satire
- can’t plan ahead, future is uncertain
- the difficult life of the poor/get necessities taken away

Question 42

Who wrote “The Lamb”

Answer 42

William Blake
- Beauty of death+ressurection
- Jesus is reflected through God’s creation(lamb)