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Neoclassical Period Flashcards

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Romanticism insisted on the greater importance of

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1) individualism
2) imagination
3) nature
4) the distant

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The belief that human reason rather than revelation or authority is the source of all knowledge and the only valid basis for action

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Rationalism

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The philosophical view that all knowledge originates in sensory experience

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Empiricism

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What’s johns Locke’s philosophy that human beings know only what they see, hear, feel, taste, or smell and what they can conclude from reflecting on their sensory experience?

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Empiricism

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Corrective ridicule in literature , or work that is designed to correct an evil by mean of ridicule.

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Satire

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What’s satires purpose

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To upbraid and warn

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A cultural attraction to the art and thought of Ancient Greece and Rome. beginning in 16th century Italy as a result of the sturdy of classical literature

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Neoclassicism

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A reaction against the cultural climate and the values of neoclassicism .

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Romanticism

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The attempt in fiction to create an illusion of actuality by the use of seemingly random detail or by the inclusion of the ordinarily or unpleasant in life

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Realism

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A long , stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of s national or ethnic hero .

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Epic

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A short, highly compressed poem making a wise or humorous observations and ending with witty twist

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Epigram

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A standard type of category of literature

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Genre

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Drama that ends unhappily

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Tragedy

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Drama that ends happily

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Comedy

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A witty and often licentious satirical comedy popular during the reign of Charles 2

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Comedy of manners

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Highly emotionalized and moralized comedy designed to arouse benevolent feelings

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Sentimental comedy

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A reverence for tradition as a source of authority or values in religion, morality, or art

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Traditionalism

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Highly emotionalized and moralized tragedy designed to arouse benevolent feelings

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Sentimental drama

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An 18th century reaction against neoclassicism that anticipated Romanism , in subject matter writers favored the quality picturesque or the pitiful, aiming to arouse humane feelings through scenes of contentment or pathos.

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Sentimentalism

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A long, highly stylized lyric poem written in a complex stanza on a serious theme and often for a specific occasion .

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Ode

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As pair of rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter .

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Heroic couplet

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A poetic foot consisting of two syllables, the second of which is accented - it repeats in a line of poetry 5 times

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Iambic pentameter

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An invented prose narrative. Whether it is allegorical or not may serve the purpose of truth and virtue.

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Fiction

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The official poet of a nation or region

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Poet laureate

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Poetry written to enhance or make memorable a particular occasion, normally public and contemporary.

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Occasional verse

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A story with a literal and an implied level of meaning. The implied level of meaning may suggest actual persons, places, events, and situations or a set of ideas

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Allegory

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Artificially selected and refined language once considered essential to poetic expression

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Poetic diction

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The inclusion of minute, or even superfluous , details to create an allusion if actuality

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Verisimilitude

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A special form of satire that mocks its subject by incongruous imitation either of its style or content or by incongruous representation in terms of high seriousness

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Burlesque

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A minor neoclassical poetic genre in which a poem, usually of high moral seriousness takes the form of an address to a friend

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Verse epistle

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Instruction in literature

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Didacticism

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The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry.

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Meter

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A variation of ballad stanza prevalent among hymns.

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Common meter

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Identical sound in corresponding words or phrases

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Rhyme

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In poetic diction: a roundabout, more elegant designation of smoke thing common

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Periphrases

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How did rationalism undermine the religious faith of England

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Pages 370, 372-374

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A nine line stanza popular among romantic poets rhyming (ababbcbcc) with eight iambic pentameter lines followed by a line of iambic hexameter

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Spenserian stanza

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Consists of four iambic lines, of which the first and third have four stresses and the second and fourth have three stresses and rhymes

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Ballad stanza

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A short, narrative song

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Ballad

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The addressing of some non- personal or absent object as if it were able to reply.

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Apostrophe

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The giving of personal characteristics to something that is not person

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Personification

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank verse

43
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The neoclassical period of England’s history was difficult for the common man because :

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  • England was in transitions from an agricultural to an industry society
43
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England’s domination of the dead helped advanced the industry revolution by crowding out of the ;

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  • French , Dutch, Spanish from valuable markets and species of raw materials
43
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The deists rejected many beliefs of scripture :

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  • the deity of Christ
  • Christ death and the bodily resurrection
  • miracles of scriptures
43
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The influence of wesleyanism taught to other worldly values and compassion for the downtrodden and brought an ;

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Evangelical conscience to England .

43
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This dulled the ill effects of

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The industrial revolution

43
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John Dryden has been called what and why

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  • First of the moderns

- because he foresaw a new age of reasonableness and scientific progress

43
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What stunned London because of it’s political impact

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Absalom and achitophel

43
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In the shortest way with dissenters ; Dofoe used irony to show that ;

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Absurdity of Tory punishments for nonconformity by recommending used harsh punishments wen he really believed in not using them

43
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What was Defoes last contribution to the novel

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  • journalistic realism
43
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In “Rebindon Crusoe” what did he most miss while being on the Island

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Conversation

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How did Crusoe keep his sanity while on the island

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  • he resigned himself to the Will of God
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Dofoe wrote what was considered the first true novel in

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  • English
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“The Tatler” what did I become

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  • a periodical of commentary
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The essays found in the “the Tatler “ and the “spectator are like what

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  • present day editorials
44
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In “whites chocolate house “ Addison and Steele point out of the superiority of reason over emotion by

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  • exaggerating the young mans preoccupation with the young lady
45
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In spectator no 34 Steele let’s the reader know that he has a great respect for

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  • traditional religion and clergy
46
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Jonathan swift series of pamphlets denouncing the exploitation I Ireland by parliament suggested :

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  • the rejection of new copper coinage of Ireland
  • the boycott of English goods
  • ironic solution to over population and starvation in Ireland
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“A modest proposal” the purpose was to

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Get parliaments attention concerning the needs for relieving the ills of the Irish

48
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The purpose of Guilvers travels was to

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  • vex the world rather than entertain it
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Swift showed the absurdity of England’s conflicts by

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Satirizing a very trivial issues and having the breaking of an egg results in extreme consequences

50
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“Essay on man” It seeks to answer the question

What does it set readers on

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Why does Evil exists ?

  • a path to modern secular humanism.
51
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“essay on criticism “ pope illustrated the importance of his belief that he sound must seem an echo to the sense because;

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  • he writes a series of lines , that sound like good and bad writing techniques but he is humorously , espousing and deriding
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He eighteenth century became a great age of what and why

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Hymnody

Because hymns provided a response to the neoclassical emphasis on rational control and the neoclassical qualities important to good writing were important to writing a good hymn

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Isaacs great contributions to gym writing influenced

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  • the growth of hymnody
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What is the theme of “Heavenly joy on earth”

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Heavenly joy should began before the christian reaches heaven

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“Against idieness and mischief” what is used as an example in illustrating the truth taught

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Bee

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The popularity of “the seasons “ indicated

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  • new demand for poems of natural descriptions and sentimental reflection
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The poem “Winter” “thither the household feathery people crowd “ is an example of

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periphrasis

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Who was the Calvinist used by God as a catalyst for the great awakening

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George Witfield

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Johns Wesley’s work as an author was the

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  • outgrowth of the kings wood
  • Bristol
    Boarding school
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Charles Wesley wrote the following hymns

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  • and it can be that I should gain
  • Jesus lover of my soul
  • soldiers of Christ arise
  • behold the man
  • the bealific sight
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In the journal entry for feb 3, 1770 Wesley attributes rousseaus shortcomings to his disdain for the

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Bible

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Behold the man , is unique in English hymnody because

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Dramatic allegorical narrative quality

63
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Charles Wesley is credited with writing how many hymns

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9,000

64
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The Wesley’s and whitefiled sharply disagree about the

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Calvinistic doctrine of limited atonement

65
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According to john W journal , he ha grasp of

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Greek and enjoyed secular and sacred reading

66
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Johnson was best known for a

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Dictionary of the english language

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His method of collecting the words that would be part of the dictionary was that he read

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Prominent English writers from sir Philip until his time. He underlined the words to be included and sent them to the transcribers to be transcribed and filed

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In rambler 62 who was the least tolerable of the tenants

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The author

69
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The truth in Johnson’s statement is that

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the insight and instruction can be gained from the observation of those around you since hums. Characteristics are universal

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According to Johnson, Dryden. Lacked popes characteristics of

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Diligence

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As the result of traveling with Johnson wrote the book

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“Tour to the Hebrides “

72
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I was difficult fr Boswell to meet Johnson because

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Johnson lifestyle was irregular

73
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Johnson conversational abilities overshadow

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Short comings

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At the end of his life Johnson’s basis for salvation was

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Christ death

75
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He purpose of young man on a grand tour was to

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Broaden his view point by making it more cosmopolitan

76
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Boswell was a what who sought I meet many famous people

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Dauntless hero

77
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Elegy written in a county churchyard has neoclassical elements :

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It’s subject
Man
It’s heavy moralizations
It’s artificial poetic diction

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Elegy written in a country churchyard had romantic elements ;

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It’s descriptions of rural landscape
It’s ideozaion of humble life
It’s use of natural descriptions to generate a mood
It’s solitary meditation

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“She stoops to conquer “ combine

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Early comedy and the morality of the current sentimental comedy

80
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The desert village uses

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Heroic couplets

81
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The cottages were given opportunities after enclosure came to their land

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  • to emigrate to American

- become a factory hand and to stay in he village as a laborer

82
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“Waking with God” is cowpeas prayer to God

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Resorted fellowship

83
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Cowper wrote the hymn “

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there is a fountain filled with blood”

84
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Cowper abandoned himself in his times of

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Spiritual distress

85
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Robert can be best classified as a

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Nationalists poet

86
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Robert was also known as the

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Heaven taught plowman

87
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Apostrophe is the poetic device used in both

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“To a mouse “ “to a louse”

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In a “ To a mouse “ the speaker stay that the mouse is more fortunate than man becUse

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The mouse has to deal with the present only where’s man has to deal with the past , the present and the Future

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