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The Middle Ages:
The Old English Period:
The Middle English Period:
The Renaissance:
The Tudor Period:
The Stuart Period:
The Age of Revolution:
The Neoclassical Priod
The Romantic Period:
The Age of Reform:
The Victorian Period:
The Modern Period:
Rationalism can be defined as the _________ of _________ in all areas of ___________.
Rule/reason/life
How did England's domination of the seas help advance the industrial revolution?
By crowding out the French, Dutch, and Spanish from valuable markets and sources of raw materials
What three main beliefs of scripture did the deists reject?
The Deity of Christ
Christ death and bodily Resurrection
Miracles of Scripture
What is the purpose of satire?
To upbraid and to warn.
What was Daniel Defoe's most lasting contribution to the novel?
Journalistic Realism
The essays found in Addison and Steele's "The Tatler and The Spectator" are much like our present-day _____________.
What is the purpose of Swift's "Gulliver's Travels"?
Was to vex the world rather than to entertain it
What fundamental question does "An Essay on Man" seek to answer?
"Why does evil exist?"
List the reasons that the eighteenth century became a great age hymnody.
Hymns provided a response to the neoclassical emphasis on rational control
The neoclassical qualities important to good writing were important to writing a good hymn
Issac watts hymnody
What creature is used as an example in illustrating the truth taught in Watts' "Against Idleness and Mischief"?
A bee
The line "Thither the household feathery people crowd" is an example of what?
Periphrasis
Over what issue did the Wesleys and Whitefield Sharply disagree?
About the Calvinistic doctrine of limited atonement
According to John Wesley's journal, he had a grasp of ___________ and enjoyed _____________ as well as ____________ reading.
Name the hymns written by Charles Wesley listed in your notes/textbook.
"And Can It Be That I Should Gain"
"Jesus, Lover of My Soul"
"Soldiers of Christ, Arise"
"Behold the Man!"
"The Beatific Sight"
Which of Pope's characteristics did Dryden lack, according to Samuel Johnson?
What book did Boswell write as a result of traveling with Johnson?
"Journal of a tour to the Hebrides"
What is the verse form of "The Deserted Village"?
Heroic couplets
According to Boswell, what trait of Johnson's overshadows his shortcomings?
His disdain for the Bible
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