Unit: 7. 17th- AND 18th-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE

Periodicals and the novel became more popular as the more powerful middle class began to read.

Milton was imprisoned, but Bunyan was not.

The Puritans felt that the Anglican Church had sufficiently reformed.

James I was restored to the throne in 1660.

When public land was enclosed for private estates, most of the rural poor were allowed to stay.

Oliver Goldsmith wrote a biography of Samuel Johnson.

In The Deserted Village, Goldsmith praises the sentimental village preacher.

Oliver Goldsmith believed that one can never be too rich.

Samuel Johnson wrote periodical essays in only one newspaper.

1. repetition of initial consonants Tory 2. giving the appearance of saying one thing while meaning something else satire 3. a comparison using like or as alliteration 4. consists of two rhyming lines of verse with five iambic feet allegory 5. giving something human characteristics simile 6. a story in which things represent parts of a doctrine or theme sentimental 7. a poem with fourteen lines, either Italian or English personification 8. ridiculing something in order to correct behavior heroic couplet 9. Swift, Johnson, and Goldsmith's political party sonnet 10. tone in The Deserted Village irony

How are Bunyan's characters in Pilgrim's Progress more than just symbols?

What one result did the Commonwealth and the Industrial Revolution produce?

For which cause did Swift not write?

Which of the following items does not appear in "A Modest Proposal"?

Samuel Johnson believed that literature should appeal mainly to the _____.

In The Deserted Village, the poet emphasizes the loss of the village by saying that _____.

What was not happening in the second half of the eighteenth century?

Samuel Johnson did not publish _____

Oliver Goldsmith was a(n) _____.

In The Deserted Village, the villagers are driven from their homes because the have enabled a wealthy landowner to buy the public property.

In The Deserted Village, the poet says that the villagers will either go to America or to crowded, corrupted

In "A Modest Proposal," Swift proposes selling children after the age of

Goldsmith wrote a(n) entitled The Vicar of Wakefield, about a parson's family.

At the end of The Deserted Village, leaves with the rural virtues and the displaced villagers because the people remaining in England are too corrupted by wealth to appreciate art.

In Paradise Lost, Adam, Noah, and Christ are all examples of the "one man" type.

In "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," what did Christ forsake and what did He choose?

In the poem "," Milton regrets his new restrictions on his work.

is an allegory which focuses on a man who receives salvation and faces obstacles on the remaining journey of his life.