J. Swift and Gulliver's travels

Swift was born in 1667 in (a)  

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Swift's family returned to (a)   in 1688

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

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In 1694 Swift returned to (a)   , where he became an Anglican priest

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Swift was ordained (a)   of St Patrick's Cathedral in 1713

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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

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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

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