U7 L7 Alexander Pope

Question 1

Writers from the Glorious revolution to the 1750s felt that only () would solve political, economic, social, and cultural problems

Answer 1

common sense

Question 2

Who were 2 prominent writers who used satire?

Answer 2

Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift

Question 3

What is satire?

Answer 3

literary manner belittling subject to produce wit and humor

Question 4

What was the name Alexander Pope was given because of his ‘harsh attacks’?

Answer 4

Wicked Wasp of Twickenham

Question 5

What was the name of the village Pope resided in?

Answer 5

Twickenham

Question 6

What is a barb?

Answer 6

critical remark

Question 7

What is a beau?

Answer 7

man who escorts a woman

Question 8

What does intimate mean?

Answer 8

to suggest

Question 9

When was Alexander Pope born?

Answer 9

1688

Question 10

What religion was Pope born into? Why was this unfortunate?

Answer 10

• Roman Catholic

- born at time Catholic s were discriminated

Question 11

What happened to Pope at 12?

Answer 11

tuberculosis of spine, made him unattractive/weal

Question 12

Who was Pope a close friend to?

Answer 12

Jonathan Swift

Question 13

What are some of Pope’s famous poems?

Answer 13

• Essay on Criticism
• The Rape of the Lock
• Windsor Forest
• Eloisa to Abelard
• The Dunciad
• Imitations of Horace

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Question 14

What translations did Pope publish?

Answer 14

Iliad and Odyssey

Question 15

When did Alexander Pope die?

Answer 15

1744

Question 16

Pope and Jonathan Swift were members of what writers organization?

Answer 16

Scriblerus Club

Question 17

Why was the Scriblerus Club formed?

Answer 17

satirize what they felt was foolish

Question 18

How may an author achieve a ‘ridiculing effect’?

Answer 18

• magnify/exaggerate
• position
• irony
• praise-blame inversion

Question 19

What does the magnify/exaggerate contribute to the ridicule effect?

Answer 19

• exaggerate corruption

- most common

Question 20

What does the position contribute to the ridicule effect?

Answer 20

• put object next to something undignified

- guilt by association

Question 21

What does irony contribute to the ridicule effect?

Answer 21

saying/being one thing while making it clear something different is meant

Question 22

What does praise-blame subversion contribute to the ridicule effect?

Answer 22

author seems to praise but is actually condemning

Question 23

What does Pope satirize in ‘The Rape of the Lock’?

Answer 23

• polite society

- represents card game disagreement among ladies and beaus as an epic battle

Question 24

What does The Dunciad record? What is its tone?

Answer 24

• epic games of writers while journeying through London

- bitter, angry

Question 25

How does The Dunciad end?

Answer 25

Dulness sitting on her throne in darkness

Question 26

What was the perfected poetic form Pope used?

Answer 26

heroic couplet

Question 27

What does the heroic couplet consist of?

Answer 27

• two rhyming lines

- iambic pentameter

Question 28

What would Pope use the heroic couplet for?

Answer 28

• narrate
• present realistic conversation
• short satiric barbs
• statements on his philosophy

Question 29

What is a parody?

Answer 29

humorous imitation