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Pace 6 History Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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greatest influence in making Great Britain head of a world empire

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Industrial Revolution

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united Scotland, England, and Wales to form Great Britain

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Act of Union

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Augustan Age (year)

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1700 - 1745

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Augustan Age synonymous

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Neoclassic Age

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Augustan Age influence on literature

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make literature available to poorer people

more people could read

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The danger of Enlightenment thinking

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its emphasis on man’s reasoning instead of God’s wisdom

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Neoclassic literature

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patterned Roman classical literature
focused on man’s relationships in society rather than on his individuality
included periodical essays and satires

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satire

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attacking some vice or foolishness through ridicule

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Enlightenment

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emphasized man’s reasoning

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10
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periodical essay

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forerunner of modern newspaper

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John Locke wrote

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Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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author of Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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John Locke

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author of The Tatler and The spectator

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Joseph Addison, Richard Steele

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Joseph Addison, Richard Steele wrote

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The Tatler and The spectator

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Jonathan Swift wrote

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Gulliver’s Travels

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author of Gulliver’s Travels

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Jonathan Swift

17
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was the British monarch during the American War of Independence

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George III

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two political parties of the eighteenth century

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Whigs and Tories

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Augustan Age types of literature

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periodical essay
hymns
Great Awakening literature
novel

20
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Pope wrote

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The Rape of the Lock

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The spiritual decline that followed the rejection of Godly morality introduced by

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the Puritans

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a movement contrary to Enlightenment philosophy

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Great Awakening

23
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most quoted author after Shakespeare

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Alexander Pope

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contributed much to new literary forms of the Augustan Age

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freedom of the press (1695)

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Daniel Defoe

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wrote Robinson Crusoe, the first English novel

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heroic couplet

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iambic pentameter

27
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father of English hymnody

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Isaac Watts

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sparked the Great Awakening in Britain’s North American colonies

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George Whitefield

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most influential leader of the British revivals

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John Wesley

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