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10/12/24, 10:31 AMENGL 216 • The Restoration & 18th Century
Jeremiah
Terms in this set (20)
Refers to the restoration of one of the Stuart kings (Charles II) to the throne of
The Restoration
England
King Henry VIII Founder of the Anglican Church
Queen Elizabeth I Powerful queen of England
The Jacobean Age Latin for "James"
The Glorious Revolution The overthrow of James II by William III and Mary II
Act of Union United Scotland and England
Reign of Anne Daughter of James II
The hero never changes (Gulliver Travels by Jonathan Swift; Joseph Andrews, Tom
Picaresque Novel
Jones, and Jonathan Wild by Henry Fielding; Humphrey Clinker by Tobia Smollet)
Full of episodes and adventures (Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel
Episodic Novels DeFoe; Sentimental Journey and Tristam Shanty by Laurence Sterne; Ooronoko by
Aphra Behn; Evelina by Fanny Burney; Pamela and Clarissa by Samuel Richardson)
Attempted to scare the reader with the supernatural (The Castle of Otranto by
Gothic Novels Horace Walpole; The Monk by Matthew Lewis; Wieland, Arthur Mervyn, and Edad
Huntley by Charles Brockden Brown; Vathek: An Arabian Tale by William Beckford)
The revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture, or music;
Neoclassicism
aesthetic imitation of the classics
Lyrical Artificial in thought, deficient in originality, very precise form
Ode Popular, elaborate lyric that exalts one subject, like spring
Every pair of lines has end rhymes, following the grandiose style of the classics that
Heroic Couplet
exalted some hero
Graveyard Sentimental, melancholy
Caesura A strong grammatical break in the middle of a line
Lofty subjects, heroic characters; long narrative, elevated language; formal
Epic statement of theme; divided into books or cantos; grandiose speeches, invoking
ENGL 216 • The Restoration & 18th Century
1688-1744; poet; born Catholic; suffered from tuberculosis; authored "The Rape of
Alexander Pope
the Lock"
Jonathan Swift 1667-1745; satirical writer; Christian; author of "Gulliver's Travels"
1716-1771; history professor at Cambridge; only child of 8 to survive; abused;
Thomas Gray
authored "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
muse; Anaphora, homeric similar, Iambic heroic couplet; capricious gods directing of
action and messing with the lives of mortals; malicious or benevolent gods
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