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Who wrote oliver twist?
charles dickens
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when was otwist set, and in what era?
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foil
2 characters in the same work who are similar, but marked by their contrast
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juxtapose
to place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast
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why is fagin worse than sikes?
he's a tempter- damns others too.
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fence
go between (fagin sells the stolen goods)
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when was the restoration?
1660-1798
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did the restoration favor fiction or nonfiction?
nonfiction
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what kind of nonfiction was in the restoration?
diaries, social treatises, biographies, 1st dictionary, literary criticism
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what kind of fiction was in the restoration?
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characteristics of the restoration
- realistic
- favors logic and reason over imagination
- herioc couplet poetry
- math/science discoveries- Newton
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what kind of poetry was in the restoration?
herioc couplets
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heroic couplet
- rhymed iambic pentameter
- heroic praises to real people
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What began the restoration?
- 1660- restoration of the monarchy (Charles II)
- less power
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Glorious revolution
- 1688- James II (Charles brother) tried to assert Catholicism
- drove him out
- all rulers must be protestant
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joint rulers of England
william and mary
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German king of England
king George
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London, 1665
- great plague
- 1/3 of the lives of London
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what ended the great plague?
1666- London fire
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How did the restoration end?
1798- publication of lyrical ballads
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Pepys Diary written in
shorthand (not code)
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regicide
execution of a king
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why don't we recognize the satire in A Modest Proposal?
- detail
- sincere in wanting to help his country
- identifies himself as reasonable
- identifies a solution to a real problem
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the restoration is also known as
- the age of pope
- alexander pope- literary criticism
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Who wrote A Modest Proposal?
Johnathan Swift
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epic poems
- long
- narrative
- larger than life hero
- grand eloquent language
- reflects the traditional values of the culture it represents
- Paradise Lost
- Beowulf
- Fairy Queen
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Mock epic
useas the grand, eloquent language for a perfectly ordinary hero with ordinary events
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principle tool of satirists
- exaggeration
- take something serious and juxtapose it with something trivial (The Rape of the Lock)
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exaggeration in Rape of the Lock
- card game becomes a war
- lock cute- battle
- hair as a prize
- hair cut- dying
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3 women poets of the restoration
- lady mary chudleigh
- lady mary wortley montagu
- hannah more
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salvery, a poem
- hannah more
- "conquest is pillige with a nobler name"
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Dryden
- criticism
- first to call Chaucer "Father of english lit"
- microcosm
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epigram
short, notable, witty phrase (Pope)
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Johnson's dictionary
- Sam Johnson
- 1st dictionary
- pronuciation- puts marks after the first vowel in the stress
- social satire- scottish, satirizing them (oats)
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