Gulliver's Travels
Elegy Written in A Country...
Modest Proposal
Vocabulary #1
Vocabulary #2
100
To the Lilliputians, Gulliver was a...
What is a giant?
100
The mood of the first four stanzas can best be described as...
What is calm or peaceful?
100
Swift's proposal for easing poverty in Ireland is...
What is killing children and selling them for food?
100
Formal tributes
What is encomiums?
100
A device for an emergency
What is an expedient?
200
Swift's main purpose in writing "Gulliver's Travels" was to
What is comment on society and human nature?
200
The time of day that the poem takes place is...
What is twilight or dusk?
200
How will the proposal benefit Irish parents?
What is get money for the sale of their children and they will not have to support the children after one year?
200
Stirred up
What is fomented?
200
Hateful
What is odious?
300
When Swift satirizes the rope dancers, who is he referring to?
What is the Whigs?
300
All of the dead desire what?
What is to be remembered?
300
Swift's view of Irish landlords was...
What is unfair (destroying their poor tenants by charging high rents)?
300
"My little friend, you have made a most admirable ____________ upon your country."
What is panegyric?
300
"These civil commotions were constantly ____________ by the monarchs of Blefuscu."
What is fomented?
400
When Swift satirizes the high-heel party and the low-heel party, who is he referring to?
What is the Whigs and the Torries?
400
The purpose of the elegy is...
What is express thoughts about death, while celebrating humble folk?
400
Swift refers to Irish mothers as "dams" and "breeders". What does his word choice suggest about British attitudes toward the Irish?
What is (Swift sees the poor as) impoverished and less than human?
400
"During the course of these troubles, the emperors of Blefuscu did frequently ___________ through their ambassadors..."
What is expostulate?
400
Gambling might "keep our very noble in dependence, as well as ____________them to vile companions."
What is habituate?
500
State at least two ways that Swift creates a believable fantasy world in Lilliput.
What is through language and history, scientific and mathematical skills, and customs to believe?
500
"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air." What do these lines mean?
What is many people are unable to develop their talents fully; they remain largely unknown?
500
Swift's true purpose in writing "A Modest Proposal" is...
What is make readers understand that British policy towards the Irish is almost as brutal and dehumanizing as the proposal presented in the essay?
500
"My greatest apprehension was for my eyes, which I should have infalliably lost, if I had not suddenly thought of an _________________."
What is expedient?
500
"Our philosophers are much in doubt, and rather __________ that you dropped from the moon, or one of the stars..."
What is conjecture?
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