The 18th Century
Dead White Guys
literary terms
Vocabulary
Vocabulary II
100
This term is often applied to the period, denoting a time of increased interest in science, learning, humanism, and new political systems.
What is the Age of Reason or The Enlightenment
100
He fathered six children with Sally Hemmings.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
This is a short and meaningful phrase, often intended to convey moral meaning or wit.
What is an aphorism?
100
Its the opposite of persuade.
What is dissuade?
100
Difficult or taxing, as a task or journey.
What is arduous?
200
This broad late 18th century development in technology made it possible to mass produce goods like never before.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
200
Benjamin Franklin got his start in this line of work.
What is printing (newspapers)?
200
This style of narrative, popular in the 18th century, features a hero of low social stature who undertakes a variety of loosely connected adventures.
What is the picaresque?
200
to get rid of completely
eradicate
200
someone who goes against the Christian faith, a term originally applied to the enemies of the medieval Crusaders.
infidel
300
This deadly journey was survived by the young Olaudah Equiano.
What is the Middle Passage?
300
This revolutionary pamphlet famously begins with the line, "These are the times that try men's souls."
What is Thomas Paine's The Crisis?
300
This term, which shares its name with a punctuation mark, means the act of addressing someone or something which cannot answer back.
What is apostrophe?
300
shining, gleaming
refulgent
300
to complain
bemoan
400
This Swiss thinker popularized the notion of the social contract.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
400
This founding father is sometimes known as "The First American."
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
400
In Phillis Wheatley's poem to General Washington, Columbia and Britannia are examples of this literary device.
What is personification?
400
flowing back
refluent
400
French, or bearing a likeness to something French
gallic
500
This awful punishment was applied to traitors to the British crown until the early nineteenth century.
What is hanging, drawing, and quartering?
500
This is the name of the governing body which heavily edited, and then adopted, Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
500
This kind of publication might typically include weather forecasts, jokes, and witty sayings.
What is an almanac?
500
the act of wrongfully taking something that does not belong to oneself, especially political power
What is usurpation?
500
The quality, often ascribed to rulers, of being just and avoiding revenge, cruelty, and pettiness.
What is magnanimity?
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