1. Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal” Gulliver’s Travels
What’s being satirized?
Basic plot & characters?
Gulliver’s Travels documentary notes

2. Historical
Restoration?
Age of Reason
The Enlightenment
Neoclassical
Deism

3. Review satirical devices worksheet
Satire
What is it?
What is its purpose?
Review satirical devices worksheet
Mock epic
Heroic Couplet

4. Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock What is Pope satirizing? How? Why?
What does he want to accomplish?

5. 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?)

6. “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
John Donne
“Meditation 17”
“Holy Sonnet X”
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
Metaphysical Poetry
Carpe Diem Theme
Epigram

7. 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?

8. 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.

9. Honors Only John Milton, Paradise Lost Four Sentence Types