Satire
Vocabulary
A Modest Proposal
Candide
Beowulf
100

Who was the author of The Nose?

Nikolai Gogol.

100

A characteristic language of a particular group

What is Jargon?

100

Who wrote The Modest Proposal?

Jonathan Swift.

100

Who wrote Candide?

Voltaire.

100

Why did the King want someone to kill Grendel?

He was killing and eating people in the new Great Hall.

200

How many things did we read while learning about satire?

3, The Nose, Candide, and The Modest Proposal. 

200

The feeling of patient, submissive humbleness.

What is meekness?

200

How many children a year does Swift want to be sold for culinary purposes?

100,000.

200

What philosophy was Pangloss a fan of?

Everything is the best of all possible worlds.

200

Why did Beowulf lose the swimming match against Brecca?

A sea monster took him to the bottom.

300

The use of humor, irony, exaggeration (or absurdity) to criticize some aspect of society.

What is satire?

300

A long narritive poem telling of a hero's journey.

What is an epic?

300

What was the The Modest Proposal about?

A proposal to help control the homeless population and to help with the low food problem.

300

What terrible fate came to the city of Lisbon?

The city of Lisbon was destroyed by an earthquake.

300

What was the Great Hall in Beowulf called?

What is Herot?

400

What is the novel we read as an example of satire?

Candide.

400

Sudden shock or dismay that causes confusion.

What is consternation?

400

What secondary use do the children have?

There skin could be used as a leather.

400

What nationality is Candide?

German.

400

What did the Queen give Beowulf in thanks for killing Grendel?

The Queen gave Beowulf the golden collar from around her neck.

500

In the short story The Nose what happened to Ivan Jakovlivitch?

He found a persons nose in his bread.

500

Be confusing or perplexing to.

What is confound?

500

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.

500

What is the name of the Baron that Candide's story starts at?

Thunder-ten-tronckh.

500

What were the 3 beasts that Beowulf killed?

1.Grendel

2.Mother

3. Dragon