Literature Test: 4 Flashcards
What were the years of the restoration period?
1660-1798
What were the fashion of the day
Whigs
Who was the merchant who was risky?
Daniel Defoe
Who was chaplain under James I?
John Donne
Who was the first poet loret?
Ben Johnson
What were the two subjects of Caviler poetry?
Love, and fighting for the king
Who replaced James II during the Glorious Revolution?
William and Mary
Where did the House of Hanover come from?
Germany
What was the enemy city of Liliput?
Blefescu
What were the the two things they were divided on in Gulliver’s Travels?
Where to crack the egg and what types of shoes to wear
What were the two literary trends of the day?
Journals and Newspapers
What two authors were affected by tuberculosis?
Alexander Pope - crippled
Samuel Jonson - blind, deaf in one ear, scarred
Who wrote the English dictionary?
Samuel Jonson
Who was in rebellion against James II and a lead informant of King William?
Daniel Defoe
What was the propose of the Act of Settlement?
To establish that a protestant would always be on the throne
When was the great fire in London?
1666
Who battled depression?
Johnathan Swift
Which actor was bigger than Shakespeare?
Ben Jonson
What poets wrote about serious and complex topics?
Metaphysical poets
Who rejected the position of poet loret because he did not want to be told what to write?
Thomas Gray
Who graduated from Cambridge and stayed to become a professor?
Thomas Gray
Who was the son of a violent father and overindulgent mother and was sent to a boarding school?
Thomas Gray
Who wrote against politics and was satyrical?
Johnathan Swift
Who was a leading architect?
Christopher Wren
