The Neoclassic Period

What predominated in the neoclassical period?

• Materialism and Empirical Science

• Platonism

• Christian humanism

• All are correct

Pope often referred to the theme of man having a place in his work and the idea of humans having a logical chain which he referred to as "Great Chain of Being"

• True

• False

what were the best known literary forms?

• Essay, verse and prose

• Drama

• Tragedy

• All are correct

The neoclassical period emphasized on

• Emotion and feelings

• Passions

• Reason, logic and order

What year was Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels written?

• 1800

• 1726

• 1722

• 1600

The neoclassical period is divided into three eras, what are they?

John Dryden was born on August 8, 1631 in England

• True

• False

Why the neoclassical period was named like that

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

• New social calsses were created

• It was time of bauty blossoming with creativity and curiosity

What genres did Samuel Johnson write?

• Poetry, romance, tragedy

• Romance,fantasy, tragedy

• Tragedy and romance

• Fantasy and poetry

The satirical is a literary genre that expresses indignation towards someone and can be written in prose, verse or alternating both forms

• True

• False