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Section 1
(50 cards)
Clarissa
Name of woman who gave the scissor to the Baron; the voiced of Pope
Sacred Rites of Pride
Belinda's makeup and love letters
The Essay on Man
Philosophy in verse; Attempted to apply common sense to the problems of the universe and the life of man
Wycherly and Congreve
Two friends of Pope
Alexander Pope
Finest of 18th century poets; best example of English Neoclassical poetry; Had no patron
The Essay on Criticism
Pope's concepts of the principles of Neoclassical art; rules that critics should follow in evaluating poems; not an original idea
John Caryll
The name of Pope's friend that asked him to write something to bring the warring families together
Nymphs
Soft, yielding women (Water)
Sylphs
Previous flirts who must now protect a women's chastity; cannot help after a woman has fallen in love (Air)
Restoration Age
The two score before the eighteenth century in which Dryden wrote
Decline of Neoclassicism
The final subdivision of Neoclassicism in which Johnson wrote
Arabella Fermor
Belinda in "The Rape of the Lock" is based on this real-life person
Insects
Below animals, but above microscopic organisms in the GCOB
The Rape of the Lock
A masterpiece in satire; a mock heroic epic written at the request of Pope's friend in an attempt to laugh two families back together
Man
The only being which possess both body and soul
Man's place in nature Individual ethics The origin of society and man's relation to it The source of happiness
The four epistles in The Essay on Man
Ombre
A card game that was played by the wealthy; The first battle
The Universe Reason Greek and Latin Allusions Satire
Characteristics of Neoclassicism
Satire
A literary manner which blends a critical attitude with humor and wit to the end that human institutions may be improved
Rosicrucians
A group who believed in gnomes, sylphs, nymphs, and salamanders; created the idea of machinery
Machinery
The four groups of spirits which represented the temperaments of women
Goddess of Spleen
Gave Umbriel a bag of female lungs and a vial of tears
Heroic Couplet
Iambic pentameter lines that rhyme in pairs, a complete thought is expressed in each pair of lines
Neoclassical Age
A period in Europe during and after the Renaissance characterized by a renewed interest in the "classics" of Greece and Rome
Slamanders
Fiery tempered women (Fire)
Eighteenth Century
The century in which Pope and Swift wrote
Augustan Age
High Point of Neoclassical Age; Pope and Swift wrote during this time
Pride
The quality of man that makes him the destructive link in the chains
Sir Plume
A character who tries to convince the Baron in the Rape of the Lock to give back the lock; Thalestris' boyfriend
Belinda
Fantastic hero of The Rape of the Lock
Billet Doux
"Love letter"
Thalestris
Belinda's friend who spurs on her rage after her lock gets cut off; not much help
5
Number of Cantos in 1714's Rape of the Lock
Horatian Satire
Gentle, smiling satire (Pope)
Lord Petre
Cut a lock of hair from Arabella Fermor without her permission
Deism
Justifies religions through reason and nature rather than by divine revelation; Do not believe in the trinity; Watchmaker God analogy
Umbriel
The gnome in The Rape of the Lock that goes and asks the Goddess Spleen to get back Belinda's lock
Weak physical condition A Roman Catholic religion
The two handicaps of Pope
2
Original number of Cantos in 1712's Rape of the Lock
Juvenalian Satire
Harsh, bitter, biting satire (Swift)
Sir John Bolingbroke
An influential writer of Pope's time; Pope used his ideas, as well as Deistic ideas, in The Essay on Man
Hampton Court
An upscale place where Queen Anne lived
The Baron
Equal Opponent of The Rape of the Lock
Great Chain of Being
An ordered hierarchy of existence in which God holds the chain; Gulliver innocently breaks this in voyages 1 and 2, but purposefully in voyage 4
Gnomes
Prudes who must now create sexual mischief (Earth)
Fantastic Hero Long Narrative Poem Highly descriptive language (Cataloging) Digression Battle between equal opponents
Five qualities of an epic
Mock Heroic Epic
Satirizes the five characteristics of a legitimate epic
Age of Reason (Age of Satire)
A movement in the 18th century that advocated the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions; deism was the religion of the time
Ariel
Belinda's head sylph in The Rape of the Lock
Pastorals
Popes first serious poem, written at age 16; gained him important literary friends
Section 2
(50 cards)
Melancholy Anger of the Rich
Causes Belinda to cry after her lock is cut
Struldbruggs
Inhabitants of Lugnag which live forever, yet deal with illness
Sacred Rites of Love
The Baron's glove, 12 romance novels, and three garders
Hairpin and Snuff
Belinda's weapons during the second battle
English parents, Irish citizens Anglican priest, dirty poet hated the Irish, yet defended them Said they didn't fight back, yet fought for them Was a Whig, yet he wanted to be a bishop Went from a position of power, to a driveler
Examples of paradox in Swift's life
Scatological Vision
Toilet/body function humor used by Swift (Master Bates)
Voyage IV
Arrival: Man's inhumanity/Gullible Gulliver (Pirates) Departure: Man's humanity (Don Pedro De Mendez)
Gentle opening Garden with tempting fruit Vindication of God's ways to man
The three echos of Essay on man to Paradise Lost
Colly Cibber (Poet Laureate)
The new chief dunce in 1743's Dunciad; a poor chief poet of the time
Diet and Residence
The two qualities of Gulliver which bridge between the two worlds in Voyage IV
Johnathan Swift
Wrote best of neoclassical prose; Best of the english prose satirists
Lower number of Paptists Poor will own something valuable Stock market will go up Parents will be rid of the expense after first year New dishes Pregnant women won't get divorced, family life with flourish Exportation of baby beef
Seven Fake Benefits
Yahoos
Bestial characters that represent the animal nature of man
His youngest is already nine and his wife cannot have children
Why can't Swift benefit from his proposal?
Houyhnhnms
Name for the horselike animals that Gulliver encounters; reason
Glumdaclitch
The name Gulliver gives his "nurse" in Voyage II
The Battle of the Books
Wrote to defend Sir William Temple; a satirical work by Jonathan Swift, discussing the constant quarrel between the Moderns and the Ancients; Took place in St. James Library
Laputa/Lugnag
Two islands in the third journey
Voyage I
Arrival: Act of Nature (Antelope during Storm) Departure: Man's inhumanity (Leaves after threat of blinding and starvation)
Don Pedro De Mendez
The Portuguese, Catholic captain that saved Gulliver
Tale of a Tub
Swift's book, critizing religion; offeneded Queen Anne; written about three brothers (Peter, Martin, John)
Theobald
The original chief dunce in 1728's Dunciad
Laputa
The island of the cuckhold scientists
Nardac
Title Gulliver earned at Lilliput
Dunciad
Work of Pope which criticized Pope's contemporaries of which he did not like; dedicated to Swift
Whigs
Proparliament, Puritans
Brobdingnag
When the second journey took place
The Dwarf
The shortest, and meanest, of the giants; Makes fun at Pope
Sir William Temple
Diplomat who opposed Louis XIV and the marriage of William and Mary, Uncle of Swift
Clean-skinned Yahoo
What the Houyhnhnms call Gulliver
Trials of dexterity - politics Eggs - religion War with Blefuscu - France
Short comings of Lilliputians
Clarissa's speech
Change in 1717 to The Rape of the Lock
Battle of the Sexes
The second battle in The Rape of the Lock
Tories
Promonarchy, Royalists
Voyage II
Arrival: Man's inhumanity (Deserted by crew) Departure: Act of Nature (Giant eagle)
They write diagonally No one wants to testify in court
Two criticisms of Lilliputians
Master Gray Horse
Gulliver converses with him regarding what doctors do, lying, etc.
No love for ponies Slavery of the Yahoos Genocide
The three evils of rationalism
Persona
A mask or voice assumed by the author; projector
Gun powder
Man's greatest invention, according to Gulliver
12:1
Ratio used in Gulliver's Travels
Posion
The initial plan to kill off Gulliver by the Lilliputians
Barbados
Where Gulliver picked up the pirates
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift's satire on dealing with the crisis in Ireland; The greatest essay ever written
Tax English landlords No more imports Straighten out women's expensive taste Learn to love Ireland Stop the factions Teach the landlords mercy Teach shopkeepers honesty
Seven Real Proposals
Lilliput
When the first journey took place
Misanthrope
A person who hates or despises people
Comet
What the lock of hair turned into
Travel Literature
What Gulliver's travels originally meant to satirize
Issac Newton
A government controller of the mint; hated and satirized by Swift
Section 3
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