Satire
Who was the author of The Nose?
Nikolai Gogol.
A characteristic language of a particular group
What is Jargon?
Who wrote The Modest Proposal?
Jonathan Swift.
Who wrote Candide?
Voltaire.
Why did the King want someone to kill Grendel?
He was killing and eating people in the new Great Hall.
How many things did we read while learning about satire?
3, The Nose, Candide, and The Modest Proposal.
The feeling of patient, submissive humbleness.
What is meekness?
How many children a year does Swift want to be sold for culinary purposes?
100,000.
What philosophy was Pangloss a fan of?
Everything is the best of all possible worlds.
Why did Beowulf lose the swimming match against Brecca?
A sea monster took him to the bottom.
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration (or absurdity) to criticize some aspect of society.
What is satire?
A long narritive poem telling of a hero's journey.
What is an epic?
What was the The Modest Proposal about?
A proposal to help control the homeless population and to help with the low food problem.
What terrible fate came to the city of Lisbon?
The city of Lisbon was destroyed by an earthquake.
What was the Great Hall in Beowulf called?
What is Herot?
What is the novel we read as an example of satire?
Candide.
Sudden shock or dismay that causes confusion.
What is consternation?
What secondary use do the children have?
There skin could be used as a leather.
What nationality is Candide?
German.
What did the Queen give Beowulf in thanks for killing Grendel?
The Queen gave Beowulf the golden collar from around her neck.
In the short story The Nose what happened to Ivan Jakovlivitch?
He found a persons nose in his bread.
Be confusing or perplexing to.
What is confound?
What were two reasons that parents might want to sell their children?
1.The parents would get paid for sell them.
2.Pay off debts.
3.Encourages marriage.
4. Reduce domestic abuse.
5.Spur competitions to make the fattest child.
What is the name of the Baron that Candide's story starts at?
Thunder-ten-tronckh.
What were the 3 beasts that Beowulf killed?
1.Grendel
2.Mother
3. Dragon