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Literary Terms
Candide
Modest Proposal
Quotes
100
A maid with a sassy tongue.
Who is Dorine?
100
Modest Proposal is one of these.
What is satire?
100
Voltaire used the character of Pangloss to poke fun at this German philosopher.
Who is Leibnitz?
100
Swift proposes that implementing his plan will prevent women from doing these two things
What are abortion and child murder?
100
He said "'Have the courage to use your own understanding,' is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
Who is Kant?
200
The philosopher with no nose.
Who is Pangloss?
200
This uses a part for the whole, as in "I'm all ears."
What is a synecdoche?
200
Candide kills these two men before he runs away with Cunegonde.
Who are the Grand Inquisitor and Don Isaac?
200
He notes that these people create a melancholy sight.
What are beggars of the female sex?
200
He wrote, "Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and I have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance."
Who is JonathanSwift?
300
This fellow wound up hiding under a table.
Who is Orgon?
300
This is written in heroic couplets.
What is Tartuffe?
300
The castle where Candide lives is located here.
What is the province of Westphalia?
300
Swift said that his plan would prevent these people from devouring the parents.
Who are landlords?
300
This character in"Candide" said, "A hundred times I wanted to kill myself, but always I loved life more."
Who is The Old Woman?
400
His name became synonymous with hypocrisy.
Who is Tartuffe?
400
This literary term describes the incident where Tartuffe tells Elmire that he is not to blame for desiring her because God made her so beautiful.
What is sophistry?
400
The religion Jacques adheres to.
What is Anabaptist?
400
These laws were enacted to keep the Irish from practicing their religion, being educated, getting jobs or gathering any form of wealth.
What are the Penal Codes?
400
He said, "...the public use of one's reason must be free at all times, and this alone can bring enlightenment to mankind."
Who is Kant?
500
Without him, Moliere would never have been able to produce his play, so he made him a hero.
Who is the King of France?
500
This literary term is evident in the dialogue between Cacambo and Candide: Candide's servant Cacambo asks him what Optimism is, to which Candide responds, "it is the mania for insisting that all is well when all is by no means well."
What is irony?
500
The only character who stays dead.
Who is Jacques?
500
Swift proposes a return to love of country, the lack thereof which differs from these two countries.
What are Lapland and Topinamboo?
500
This character said, "That is very well put, but we must go and cultivate our garden."
Who is Candide?
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