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Restoration mini test Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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appearance; image

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semblance

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2
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light up

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illumine

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3
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violate a law or command

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transgress

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4
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artful trickery

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guile

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5
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stubborn

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obdurate

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turbulent; stormy

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tempestuous

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7
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exceeding beyond all limits

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transcendant

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humiliation; dishonor

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ignominy

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9
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a commoner

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plebian

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10
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a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings

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stoic

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11
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author of paradise lost

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John Milton

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12
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2 authors best known for satire

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jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope

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13
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author of Rape of the Lock

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Alexander Pope

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14
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Neoclassic Literature was modeled after

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latin works

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15
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founder of English prose

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William Tyndale

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author of Gulliver’s travels

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Jonathan Swift

17
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card game; similar to bridge

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omber

18
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a long humorous narrative poem that takes something unimportant and elevates it by using the styles of a true epic

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mock epic

19
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a poem of serious reflection, usually a lament for the dead

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elegy

20
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a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often praising something

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ode

21
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a kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, folly, or vice in order to bring about social reform

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satire

22
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three appeals in a satire

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logical appeal, emotional appeal, ethical appeal

23
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two ways that the odyssey and the rape of the lock are alike in format/structure

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written in verse, both start by invoking the gods/muses, feature homeric similes, and the involvement of gods/godesses in the plot.

24
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one allusion to the odyssey in the rape of the lock

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The city of Troy is mentioned in Canto 3. Troy is an ancient city in greek mythology and it is mentioned in the “Odyssey”. In the “Rape of the Locke”, it is compared to Belinda’s hair. The city was supposedly destroyed by steel as Belinda’s hair was cut by steel scissors.

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According to Satan in Paradise Lost, why does good exist?

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God lets evil happen to bring good from it.

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