The Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Satire is a literary manner that blends criticism of a person, event, or situation with witty humor

Jonathan Swift wrote “A Modest Proposal.”

Neoclassicism means new classicism and emphasizes order, symmetry, elegance, and structure in the arts and literature

The restoration period starts with the reestablishment of the monarchy

Who was allowed in 18th-century theater?

The comedy of manners presents poor characters obsessed with high society manners, social position, fashion, and wealth

“The Rape of the Lock” is

EPISTOLARY NOVEL is a/an

Alexander Pope's most well-known work is Gulliver’s Travels

The 18th century wasn't the age of the Enlightenment or the Age of Reason

The Great Fire of London happened in:

During the 18th century, the English language became less standardized and prescriptive.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language has

A heroic couplet is four lines of poetry in iambic pentameter that rhyme.

Mock Epic uses the characteristics and conventions of an epic but for a humorous and satirical purpose