Enlightenment

2. a philosophical perspective that emphasizes equality and equal treatment across gender, religion, economic status, and political beliefs.
6. an intellectual and philosophical movement which dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century
7. a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas and achievements of classical antiquity

1. a practice of being sentimental, and thus tending toward basing actions and reactions upon emotions and feelings, in preference to reason.(The representatives of this trend in literature were Goldsmith and Sterne)
3. an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, author of Gulliver's Travels
4. a short treatise or essay, generally a controversial tract, on some subject of contemporary interest
5. a way of criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way, especially in order to make a political point, or a piece of writing that uses this style
7. a literary genre that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements, attempting to represent familiar things as they are.