Neoclassical Unit Notes

2. London's massive growth created new social problems, resulting in a focus on _____ life.
4. Literary technique using irony and exaggeration to criticize society, often with the goal of inspiring reform.
6. The master of satire and author of Gulliver's Travels.
8. Travels TRAVELS, Swift's famous work that is a brutal critique of human nature disguised as an adventure story.
10. Writer who coined the phrase, "True wit is nature to advantage dress'd."
11. Swift's stated goal was to ___ the world rather than divert it.
12. Literary figure who standardized English by writing one of the first influential dictionaries.
14. The revolution that saw thinkers like Sir Isaac Newton explain the universe with science.
15. Author who used the logic of the age to argue for women's education and rights.

1. An intellectual shift away from superstition and toward logic and observable fact; also called "The Age of Reason."
3. The unit project where students will write a creative, reflective _____.
5. The 138-year literary era known as the Age of Reason and _____.
7. The first political parties in England were the Whigs and the _____.
9. The literary style that means "new classics," looking back to ancient Greece and Rome.
13. The event in 1660 where the monarchy returned after years of civil war and strict Puritan rule.