Final Exam Flashcards
What are the years of the Middle Ages?
450 to 1485
What are the years of the Old English period?
450 to 1100
What are the years of the Middle English period?
1100 to 1485
What are the years of the Renaissance?
1485 to 1688
What are the years of the Tudor period?
1485 to 1603
What are the years of the Stuart period?
1603 to 1688
What are the years of the Age of Revolution?
1688 to 1832
What are the years of the Neoclassical period?
1688 to 1789
What are the years of the Romantic period?
1789 to 1832
What are the years of the Age of Reform?
1832 to Now
What are the years of the Victorian period?
1832 to 1914
What are the years of the Modern period?
1914 to Now
Rationalism can be defined as what?
The rule of reason in all areas of life
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
What three main beliefs of Scripture did the Deists reject?
1) the deity of Christ
2) Christ’s death and bodily resurrection
3) miracles of Scripture
What is the purpose of satire?
To upbraid and to warn
What was Daniel Defoe’s most lasting contribution to the novel?
Journalistic realism
The essays found in Addison and Steele’s “The Tatler and The Spectator” are much like our present-day __________
Editorials
What is the purpose of Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”?
To vex the world, rather than entertain it
What fundamental question does “An Essay on Man” seek to answer?
Why does evil exist?
List the reasons that the 18th century became a great age of hymnody.
1) hymns provided a respond to the neoclassical emphasis on rational control
2) the neoclassical qualities important to good writing were important to writing a good hymn
What creature is used as an example in illustrating the truth taught in Watts’ “Against Idleness and Mischief”?
A bee
The line “Thither the household feathery people crowd” is an example of what?
Periphrasis
Over what issue did the Wesley’s and Whitefield sharply disagree?
The Calvinistic doctrine of limited atonement