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The Basics
Philosophy
Literature
Big Names
100
What are the dates of the Enlightenment?
1660-1800
100
Enlightenment thinkers believed man was inherently ________.
sinful or evil
100
What are the two elements of heroic couplet?
Iambic pentameter Masculine rhyme
100
Name 4 neoclassical writers.
Voltaire Jonathan Swift John Locke Thomas Jefferson Patrick Henry Benjamin Franklin Alexander Pope
200
The Age of Reason and _____________ are two other names for the Enlightenment.
What is neoclassicism?
200
Enlightenment thinkers believed that ____ was the most appropriate subject of art.
man
200
Literature was concerned with _____ matters.
Social
200
This author perfected the heroic couplet.
Alexander Pope
300
The Enlightenment was a reaction against....
the Renaissance
300
In this age, art was _______, meaning that it is valuable because it is useful.
pragmatic
300
What is satire?
Genre of literature in which the author implies some standard that the audience must adhere to. Using humor or ridicule to move society to good.
300
Who said, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. “
Thomas Jefferson
400
Enlightenment thinkers asserted that man has _______ potential for growth.
limited
400
________ is the key to truth.
Reason
400
Literature during this time period used a lot of ________ allusions.
Classical
400
Who said, “All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.”
John Locke
500
This was a wide-ranging ___________________ movement.
Intellectual
500
Neoclassicists believed in human progress, through ________.
education
500
During this time, the rise of literary ________, like the Tatler, were very popular.
Magazines/pamphlets
500
Who said, "Be thou the first true merit to befriend;?His praise is lost, who stays till all commend."
Alexander Pope