Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal” Gulliver’s Travels What’s being satirized? Basic plot & characters? Gulliver’s Travels documentary notes
Historical Restoration? Age of Reason The Enlightenment Neoclassical Deism
Review satirical devices worksheet Satire What is it? What is its purpose? Review satirical devices worksheet Mock epic Heroic Couplet
Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock What is Pope satirizing? How? Why? What does he want to accomplish?
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?)
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” John Donne “Meditation 17” “Holy Sonnet X” “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” Metaphysical Poetry Carpe Diem Theme Epigram
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?
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.
Honors Only John Milton, Paradise Lost Four Sentence Types