1. Enlightenment and restoration Review

2. Literary terms Satire Conceit Irony Metaphysical poetry Journal Elegy
Paradox
Personification

3. “A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning”
Be able to identify the message the poem is conveying
Identify and analyze the conceit
Evaluate how the poem represents metaphysical poetry
Review your questions from p.524

4. “Holy Sonnet X” and “Meditation 17”
Review questions and notes from our discussions in class
Written by John Donne
Be able to identify and discuss the paradox within the poem
What is the speaker’s tone?
Analyze the message of the poem-what is it saying about death?
What conclusion is the reader supposed to come to?
Look at the key phrases Donne discusses in “Meditation 17”:
“For whom the bell tolls…”
“No man is an island…”
Evaluate what Donne is saying in his writing about life, death and humanity (connect this idea to the principles of the Enlightenment we discussed)

5. A Modest Proposal and gulliver’s Travels
Identify the components of satire (use the handout given to you in class)
Irony, Exaggeration, Incongruity, Reversal, Parody
Identify/analyze what Swift is satirizing
Who does Swift satirize? (i.e. who are his targets?)
Identify for each piece of literature
Evaluate the advantages to Swift’s proposal (in A Modest Proposal)
Hint: Advantages-start at line 190 in your packet
Define the 3 types of persuasive appeals and be able to identify/analyze within A Modest Proposal
Logical:
Emotional:
Ethical:
Review the Gulliver’s Travels handout I gave to you

6. Paradise Lost
Review your Cornell Notes as well as your detailed, short answer questions
Analyze Milton’s purpose in writing
Background on Milton (look over the introductory power point)
His personal life
Political life and connections
Focus on Satan’s mission and what happened to form Satan’s view of the world
Connection to the biblical story of Adam and Eve

7. Historical Background
Review the introductory power point as well as your notes from your literature book (p )
Focus on:
Important Dates: 1625, 1649, 1653, 1660, 1688
Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Charles II, James II, William and Mary
Background of authors (Milton, Donne, etc…)
Influences on writers of the time period
Influence of development of science