Main Books
Who wrote Paradise Lost and what were his beliefs?
John Milton - believed in freedom of religion, press, and was anti-monarchy.
What was the Enlightenment?
A period that featured the development of reason as a basis for critique. A period of lots of societal questioning and the rise of literature for all classes.
What was Gulliver?
An unreliable narrator
What were the 2 kinds of art present during the Neoclassical Period ?
High and low art
“To be or not to be”
Who said it, in what play? What does it mean?
Hamlet in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. He is contemplating whether death is a plausible option.
What were some of the motivations behind Gulliver’s Travels? Give at least three.
To criticize the Enlightenment, address European government, scientists and their concept of reason, Philosophes and their view of mankind, and religious differences that cause conflict.
How did Neoclassicalism differ from English Renaissance
Imitated the form and structure of the classics, rather than inspiration.
Define in Media Res
“In the middle of” When a story starts in the middle of a conflict
Who was the king of England during the English Civil War?
King James I
“Evil, thou be my good”
Who said it, in what book? What does it mean?
Spoken by Satan in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Stan is embracing his evil nature as his purpose.
What was the name of the angel that guarded the Garden of Eden?
Gabriel
What were the new kinds of literature that gained popularity during the Enlightenment?
Newspapers, Periodicals, Essays, Satires, and Travel Narratives
Define Soliloquy versus a Monologue
Soliloquy- the act of someone speaking their thoughts aloud regardless of any listeners.
Monologue-a long uninterrupted speech with the goal of conveying the character’s emotions to either the audience or other characters.
What were the 3 vents/things occured between the Renaissance and the Early 17th century?
Elizabethan Drama, English civil war, and the interregnum period
“My children,“ she said “my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union”
Who said it? In whay book? What does it mean?
Frankenstein‘s mother in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. She is making her last wish for Frankenstein and Elizabeth to be married.
What was the term Alexander Pope used to describe Man’s role in the universe?
The Great Chain of Being
Porphyria‘s lover
Give: list of events, author, and how the poem could be considered “scandalous“.
Written by Robert Browning. A man is sitting in a cabin, woman arrives, they sit together, he kills her and positions her body. The poem is scandalous because the woman is his mistress (and the murder).
What is epistolary narative
A narrative that is told through letters and or documents
Name the main family and or people that reigned during the English Renaissance Period?
The Stuarts, King James I, and Charles I
“What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry.”
Who said it? In what text? What does it mean?
It was said by the speaker in William Blake’s The Tyger poem. In this quote the speaker is questioning how God could have created something so beautiful yet so evil.
What is the quote describes the intended audience for Paradise Lost?
“fit audience, though few” - means that the poem was intended for the intellectuals who could understand the allusions and underlying meaning in the poem.
Who’s new empirical approach to science and reason played a huge role in the development of the Enlightenment?
Sir Isaac Newton
Give an example of epistolary narrative
Frankenstein
What wars mark the start of the Renaissance and the end of the 17th century?
“Batter my heart three-personed God.”
Who said it? In what text? What does it mean?
It was said in the speaker of John Donne’s Holy Sonnet XIV. The speaker is comparing the love of God to a battering Ram in its ferocity.