Checkup 2 Flashcards
Augustan Age literary innovations included the:
periodical essay, hymns, Great Awakening literature, the novel
Before the Augustan Age, ____________ was aimed at the upper classes in the royal court, the churches, and the coffee houses.
literature
Increasing ___________ among the middle and lower classes contributed to a new appetite for an entertaining, more realistic type of writing.
literacy
In writing Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe presented a high-adventure tale with what?
Christian principles
The great satirical poem by Pope ridiculing social vanity and affected manners is?
The Rape of the Lock
The spiritual decline that followed the rejection of Godly morality introduced ______________________ was followed during the Augustan Age by the greatest spiritual awakening in British history.
by the Puritans
a movement contrary to Enlightenment philosophy
Great Awakening
most-quoted author after Shakespeare
Alexander Pope
freedom of the press (1695)
contributed much to new literary forms of Augustan Age
wrote Robinson Crusoe, the first English novel
Daniel Defoe
iambic pentameter
heroic couplet
father of English hymnody
Isaac Watts
sparked the Great Awakening in Britain’s North American colonies
George Whitefield
most influential leader of British revivals
John Wesley
sumptuous
lavish
