J. Swift and Gulliver's travels

Swift was born in 1667 in .....

Swift's family returned to...... in 1688

Swift became secretary to a ..... statesman, who urged him to write his first satirical works.

In 1694 Swift returned to ......., where he became an Anglican priest

Swift was ordained ........ of St Patrick's Cathedral in 1713

Gulliver

• is an invented character

• never finds himself displaced

• is Swift himself

Swift

• tells his experiences in the third person

• is object and instrument of satire

• has an elevated and complex style

After a shipwreck during his first voyage, Gulliver reaches the land of.......

• Laputa

• Lilliput

• giants

• horses

On his second voyage, Gulliver arrives in Brobdingnag, whose native people are

• lilliputians

• horses

• giants

• astronomers

A satire about the superstition of the Catholics and the fanaticism of the Dissenters

• The Battle of the Books

• A Modest Proposal

• A Tale of a Tub

• The Drapier's letters