Neoclassical Test

Question 1

Who is known for satire

Answer 1

Jonathan Swift

Question 2

Modeled after latin

Answer 2

Neoclassical literature

Question 3

A poem that mourns a death

Answer 3

Elegy

Question 4

A kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform

Answer 4

Satire

Question 5

a poem glorifying something

Answer 5

Ode

Question 6

Founder of english prose

Answer 6

John Dryden

Question 7

Who wrote gulliver’s travels

Answer 7

Jonathan Swift

Question 8

The name of the game in rape of the lock

Answer 8

ombre

Question 9

A long humorous narrative poem that takes something unimportant and elevates it by using the styles of true epics

Answer 9

mock epic

Question 10

What is important about journalism

Answer 10

It emerges as a mainstream part of culture

Question 11

The complete opposite of the thesis or an example of what something shouldn’t be

Answer 11

Antithesis

Question 12

What was important about novels in this movement

Answer 12

they are new and women become the predominant readers

Question 13

Which work eludes to the inferno

Answer 13

Paradise Lost

Question 14

Who fell in love with an eight year old

Answer 14

Jonathan Swift

Question 15

Who did Andrew Marvell save

Answer 15

John Milton

Question 16

Who wrote the rape of the lock

Answer 16

Alexander Pope

Question 17

Who had Potts disease

Answer 17

Alexander Pope

Question 18

List the three appeals in satire and explain

Answer 18

Logical appeal - facts and statistics; Emotional appeal - strong feelings; Ethical appeal - sincere qualified

Question 19

Tell two ways the rape of the lock is similar to the odyssey (format and structure)

Answer 19

They use epic similes and gods and goddesses in the action

Question 20

According to satan in paradise lost, why does good exist

Answer 20

So that evil has something to be compared to

Question 21

Name two benefits of the plan outlined in the modest proposal

Answer 21

It relieves the poor by selling the babies; It provides pleasure to the rich by eating the fattened babies

Question 22

What theme is often found in restoration poetry

Answer 22

Carpe Diem

Question 23

To acquire or bring upon oneself

Answer 23

Incur

Question 24

Burden

Answer 24

Encumbrance

Question 25

Food or money to support life

Answer 25

Sustenance

Question 26

Who wrote paradise lost

Answer 26

John Milton

Question 27

A person who can endure the pain or hardship without showing their feelings

Answer 27

Stoic

Question 28

A product that is brought or sold

Answer 28

Commodity

Question 29

Persuade that an idea or belief is mistaken

Answer 29

Disabused

Question 30

Not in a direct way

Answer 30

Obliquely

Question 34

Respect

Answer 34

Deference

Question 35

Parallel

Answer 35

Collateral

Question 36

The allocation of something belonging to something

Answer 36

Assignations

Question 37

To condemn

Answer 37

Censure

Question 39

A commoner

Answer 39

Plebeian

Question 40

Without basic necessities

Answer 40

Destitute

Question 42

To think of; to devise; to scheme

Answer 42

Contrive