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22 Cards in this Set
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Size of Lilliput
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Less than 6 inch.
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Name of other tribe
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Brobdingnag
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In 1660, England came out of ___ years of Civil War
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20
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What class grew?
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Middle
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Names for the period
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Neo-Classical, Enlightenment, Age of Reason
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Literature imitated ___ and ___ classics
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Greek, Roman
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Who was allowed on stage for the first time?
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Women
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Most accomplished writers of 18th century
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Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift
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Who wrote Gulliver's Travelers?
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Swift
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What else did Swift write?
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A Modest Proposal
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What is a novel?
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Long, narrative, fictional work of literature
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One long narrative from this time period
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Robinson Crusoe
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Items of fashion
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Powdered wigs, high heels, ribbons, red shoes
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England lost colonies in 1775 in what war?
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Revolutionary War
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After this, writers returned to what for inspiration?
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Nature and folk themes
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Define satire
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Ridicule of some vice or some imperfection
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Swift's goal in satire
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To improve human conduct, to make people more humane and decent to one another
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Making something look larger
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hyperbole
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Making something look smaller
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understatement
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Things that look ridiculous to their surroundings
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incongruity
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Narrator of Gulliver's Travelers
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Lemuel Gulliver, surgeon on ship
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Example of incongruity
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Gulliver fighting flies, being tied down by people of Lilliput
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