Student’s name: _________________
Period: _______
Date: _________________
Mr. Cleon M. McLean
Department of English
Ontario High School
Featuring the 18th century
1. Queen Anne died in 1714
2. Tories fell from office
3. Became a national hero for
opposing a system of debased
coinage
4. “that animal called man”- Jonathan
Swift
5. Man is capable of reason but
seldom uses it
6. The English were devouring Ireland
economically
7. Favorite literary weapon was irony
8. The secret of good prose is “proper
words in proper places”
9. His talent of argument(rhetoric)
became useful to the English
government
10.
First half of 18 century
known as The Age of Pope
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11. Samuel Johnson, first great
dictionary (1755), “ Age of
Johnson”
12. Novel Form- united availability to
the common reader and
seriousness of artistic purpose
22. Neoclassical era was reflection
back to Greek and Roman times
46. Determined to preserve good
sense and civilized values
23. Themes were social, political, and
moral life. (Pope)
47. Writers expanded their variety of
works
24. Classical idea for people in their
call for humane wisdom and self
control (Augustan Age)
48. A new mass arose, which
focused on popular prose
genres, i.e., notorious criminals,
gossip, and romantic tales
25. End of Age of Pope literature
affirms traditional virtues and
traditional social order
26. Defoe adopted aristocraticsounding “De” in later life to make
his name more aristocratic
27. Writers turned their wit against
fanaticism and innovation
28. “Great age of satire”
52. Love of nature
29. Writers provided fresh
perspective on things that were
once too trivial for poetry
53. Individual rights
30. “opposition is true friendship”
William Blake
31. “romantic writers incorporate their
values”
32. The age of population explosion
was also an age of individualism
33. Break from the past away
14. Dark, Melancholy poetry
35. Distrust institution
15. Poets began to cultivate
language and antique form
36. Reverence for imagination
17.
Popes poetry deals with general
themes in social political and
moral life
18. Did not stress the inner qualities
or human experiences
19. England was a sad contrast to
classical Roman civilization (Pope
and Swift)
20. World was collapsing in moral
emptiness, political corruption
and abuse of wealth by British
Empire
21. The Age of Pope is far from
gloomy, and its literature affirms
traditional virtues and traditional
social order
50. Until 1740’s, poetry tended to
set the standards of literature
51. Prose of the age had to do
justice to difficult and
complicated ideas( Philosophy,
History, Psychology, art)
13. An age of great prose can
burden its poets
16. To write according to the
accepted rule was the best way
to express what we observe in
nature
49. “Age of Prose” Mathew Arnold
34. Sensibility flourished
37. Embrace of change
38. Romantics wrote to save their own
interest
39. Stressed how different they were
from writers of the previous age
40. Romantic writers incorporate
much at their language and values
41. Literature was not only
entertaining, but also served as
models of conduct
42. Readers craved less crowded,
more meditative works
43. Literature does not only show how
modern world has fallen, but also
its magical and fascinating side
44. Queen Anne died in 1714 and the
Tories fell from office
45.
54. Passion for liberty and equality
55. Founding of justice
56. Nature- the world we observe
57. Wit- expressing nature in a
profound way
58. Writers of the 18th century
respected the rules of the
ancient Greek-Roman writers
59. Believed that their rules mirrored
nature
60. Became a national hero in Ireland
when he opposed London coinage
61. Good prose is “good words in
proper places”
62. Ireland was a place of exile for Swift
63. God created nature
64. Writing about nature is close to
God, and it is close to his purpose
65. God gave us minds to interpret the
world he created
66. Poets began to cultivate archaic
language and antique forms