Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travel's Close Read

Multiple Select

Which of the following best represents the MOOD of Gulliver's Travels? (Select 2)

• Serious

• Humorous

• Optimistic

• Desperate

Multiple Select

Which of the following best represents the TONE of Gulliver's Travels? (Select 2)

• Satirical

• humorous

• formal

• neutral

Imagery

Imagery is descriptive and figurative language that helps to create an image in the reader's mind. Imagery contributes to both mood and tone.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not an example of imagery from the story?

• The garret windows and tops of houses were so crowded with spectators, that I thought in all my travels I had not seen a more populous place.

• The city is an exact square, each side of the wall being five hundred feet long. The two great streets, which run across and divide it into four quarters, are five feet wide.

• The wall which encompassed it is two feet and a half high, and at least eleven inches broad, so that a coach and horses may be driven very safely round it...

• The people had notice, by proclamation, of my design to visit the town.

Multiple Choice

Take your best guess: What two political parties might Swift be talking about in the alagory about the Tramecksans and Slamecksans?

• Torries and Whigs

• Republicans and Democrats

• Team Jacob and Team Edward

Multiple Choice

What two countries is Swift satirizing in the story about the Lilliputians and the Blefusca?

• France and Spain

• America and England

• England and Spain

• Russia and Serbia

Open Ended

Exit Ticket: Based on the tone in the two passages we just read, how does Jonathan Swift feel about politics in England at this time?