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English Final
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25
English
10th Grade
05/29/2011

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Enjambment

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the running on of a thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.

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Concluding Triplet

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Last three lines in a poem. Created by Swift's cousin, made last three lines sweet and beautiful. Swift took it and made the last three lines gross and satirical, in order to make fun of his cousin.  

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1707 Act of Union

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When England and Scotland became united and Ireland became a subject nation of England

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Five "I's"

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Imagination- emphasized over "reason". Backlash against the rationalism characterized by the Neoclassical period.

Intuition- feeling or instincts over reason.

Idealism- concept that we can make the world a better place. Emphasized the spirt, the mind, or language over matter.

Inspiration- what inspired the poet, creative thought.

Individuality- what made the poet unique.

 

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Hybridity

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Mixed heritage

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Satire

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A literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.

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Misanthrope

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A person who hates of distrusts humankind
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Travel Adventure

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A genre of writing Swift uses. Gulliver's Travels. 
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Postcolonialsim

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Intellectual discourse that consists of reactions to, and analysis of, the cultural legacy of colonialism. Comprised of a set of theories present in literature, politics, feminism, human geography, philosophy, etc.
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Lord Byron

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Romantic poet, wrote "She Walks in Beauty"
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George II

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Figure head like his father. Did not posses much power over Great Britain's Parliament. Last British Monarch to lead an army into battle. 
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Suno

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Character in "Studies in the Park". Pressure by family to get perfect grades on exam.
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Sir Walter Ralegh

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Carpe Diem poet. Wrote "A Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd."
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Andrew Marvell

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Carpe Diem poet, wrote "To His Coy Mistress". 
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Queen Anne

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Very much opposed Swift's writing, starting with "A Tale of a Tub". Hated the scatological humor Swift uses, she basically ends his political career.
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William Wordsworth

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Romantic poet, wrote "I Wandered Lonley As a Cloud". 
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Percy Shelley

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Romantic poet, wrote "Ode to the West Wind".
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Mita

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Female narrator in the short stories set in India; "Clothes". Feels more free in America, idealizes 711.
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Transcendentalists

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 any philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical

 

 

 

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Tories/Whigs

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Swift started a Whig, Whigs were for strong parliment. He ended up a Torie, Tories are for a strong king. Whigs were respresented as the Slamecksans and Tories were represented as Tramecksans in Gulliver's Travels.
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Africa

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Country we studied in the short story unit. Stories such as "Green Leaves", "The Old Men Used to Dance", "Two Sisters", "A Boy and the Wind".
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Big Endians

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Represents the Catholics in Gulliver's Travels. Crack their eggs on the big end. 
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Tramecksans

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Represents the Tories who are for a strong King in Gulliver's Travels.
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London

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Swift makes fun of this city in Description of a City Shower. Key city in Great Britian.
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India

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Country we learned about in the short stories, with works such as "Clothes", "Studies in the Park". Colors are important in culture.
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