Texts and Literary Eras
"The Tale of Two Cities"
What is the restoration era?
Wrote The Importance of Being Earnest
Who is Oscar Wilde?
resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction.
What is earnest?
A group of words that contains a subject, a verb, and expresses a complete thought.
What is an independent clause?
connection to the senses, especially sensory language in poetry.
What is sensibility?
The Importance of Being Earnest
What is the Victorian era?
Wrote “To His Coy Mistress”
Who is Andrew Marvell?
an uncomplimentary, sneering manner, or with a sneer
What is superciliously?
a sentence that is missing either its subject or its main verb
What is a fragment?
Anything uncivilized--societies or people considered uncivilized before our time.
What is primitivism?
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
What is the romantic era?
Wrote “A Modest Proposal”
Who is Jonathan Swift?
experiencing or inducing feelings of isolation or estrangement.
What is alienated?
What is a comma splice?
Description of natural settings and items; nature as a spiritual force.
What is the love of nature?
“A Modest Proposal”
What is the restoration era?
Wrote “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics.
What is mercenary?
a noun phrase that comes after another noun phrase (its antecedent) to provide extra information about it
What is an appositive phrase?
Anything supernatural or unnatural; ghosts, goblins, etc.
“The Little Black Boy”
What is the Romantic Era?
Wrote “To the Virgins, Make Much of Time”
Who is Robert Herrick?
a thing at which someone excels.
What is forte?
subject and its verb must be both singular or both plural
What is subject verb agreement?
What is Anti-Neoclassicism?
Not logical; emotional; not based on observation but rather on intuition or feeling.