Neoclassical British Literature

The Neoclassical era was so named because ____~.

• people loved classical music

• it was a time where writers imitated the classical structures of the Romans and the Greeks

• new social classes were created

• it was a time when people were very classy

In poetics,___ are two line units of verse that do not extend their sense beyond the line's end.

• open couplets

• closed couplets

• paired couplets

• end couplet

He is famous for using heroic couplet.

• Pope

• Dryden

• Johnson

• Swift

What is the meaning of Neoclassical?

• New classics

• New Ideas

• That New New

• New Feelings

What kinds of styles did the writers of the Neoclassical period try to imitate?

• Greek and Roman

• Eastern

• Native American

• Renaissance

The Enlightenment emphasized

• emotions, feelings and passion

• reason, logic and order

• the force of gravity

• electricity

What British tradition started in this period?

• Eat chocolate with friends.

• Visit bars

• Drink afternoon tea.

• Bake cupcakes.

Who wrote the Gulliver’s Travels?

• Jean-Baptiste Poquelin

• Alexander Pope

• Jonathan Swift

A metaphysical conceit is an unusual __________________.

• plot device

• extended metaphor

• rhyme scheme

• poetic meter

• word choice

John Donne, one of the metaphysical poets, wrote in all of the following styles except ______________.

• sonnets

• sermons

• songs

• essays

• elegies