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Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal” Gulliver’s Travels
What’s being satirized? Basic plot & characters? Gulliver’s Travels documentary notes
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Historical Restoration? Age of Reason The Enlightenment Neoclassical Deism
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Review satirical devices worksheet
Satire What is it? What is its purpose? Review satirical devices worksheet Mock epic Heroic Couplet
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Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock What is Pope satirizing? How? Why?
What does he want to accomplish?
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Samuel Pepys, from The Diary
Daniel Defoe, from A Journal of the Plague Year Remember the historical accounts that these two writers share with us through their writing. How do they share it so successfully? (Imagery?)
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“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
John Donne “Meditation 17” “Holy Sonnet X” “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” Metaphysical Poetry Carpe Diem Theme Epigram
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The Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson The Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language Joseph Addison “The Aims of the Spectator” What is an essay? What did these men want to accomplish by writing these?
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Can you identify a gerund? Making good grades is fun.
I love running. Swimming is a sport. Singing is her passion. Making good grades is fun.
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Honors Only John Milton, Paradise Lost Four Sentence Types
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