Journal of a Plague Year
What is an inference?
What is the reasoning for the title?
Locks of hair were symbolic of a romantic gesture. The baron steals Belinda's without her permission
When what is said is the opposite of what is meant
What genre is this story? List 2 ways you know.
Fantasy. Use of an unrealistic setting, use of tiny and giant characters
very small
diminutive
Why doesn't the sexton want the narrator to enter the burial grounds?
He didn't want the narrator to become infected with the plague
What is a heroic couplet?
A pair of rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter
The poor
The Lilliputians
tending to yield to the will of others
submissive
What horrors does the narrator witness during regular walks to his brother's house?
infected people falling dead in the streets, women shrieking, some victims of the plague doing harm to themselves or others
What does the author suggest happened to Belinda's lock of hair?
He suggests that it was immortalized in a constellation or with the Gods. This feeds Belinda's vanity
He is making a statement that the poor Irish are treated as numbers, not as people
Why does Gulliver become important to the Lilliputians?
They rely on him to help against Blefuscu, their enemy
to stir up trouble
foment
What is versimilitude?
When the author uses strategies to allow their story to appear realistic
What was the name of the card game that Belinda played?
ombre
Explain why the title is ironic.
Swift is providing a "modest proposal" while proposing that children after 1 year of age should be eaten and skinned.
Why did Gulliver announce himself instead of lay low in the cornfield?
He was about to be squashed by the giant
ill feeling; hostility
animosity
List two strategies an author uses to achieve verisimilitude
1. first person narrator
2. numbers and statistics
3. dates and references to time
4. geographical names
5. precise details
What are two characteristics of a mock epic?
1. formal language
2. boasting speeches
3. supernatural intervention in human affairs
4. elaborate descriptions of weapons and battles
The Rape of the lock uses Horatian/Juvenalian Satire while the Modest proposal uses Horatian/Juvenalian Satire.
ROTL: Horatian-uses ornate language to create a playful tone
MP: Juvenalian-uses hash language and ideas to create a bitter tone
Swift satirizes the two parties from his English government. What are they?
Whigs & Tories
to infer based on incomplete evidence
conjecture