Revision Restoration & Romantic Age

Revision: Restoration & Romantic Age
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Revision: Restoration & Romantic Age

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What was restored in the period between 1660 - 1798? (2 options)

Slide 2 - Open question

What is empiricism? Why is this term so fitting with regards to the Restoration era?

Slide 3 - Open question

What was the purpose of Swift’s A Modest Proposal?

Slide 4 - Open question

Which satirical devices are used in the text?

Slide 5 - Mind map

Slide 6 - Slide

Which satirical device is used in this extract? Explain your answer.

Slide 7 - Open question

What is the sublime?

Slide 8 - Open question

What are the characteristics of a Romantic poem?

Slide 9 - Mind map

Read this Romantic poem
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Slide 10 - Slide

Identify one Romantic element in the poem and explain its function.

Slide 11 - Open question

What to study?
  • Historical background of the Restoration period (presentation)
  • A Modest proposal (content & satirical devices)
  • Characteristics of Romantic poetry (& be able to analyse these in a poem)
  • The Sublime experience

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