Literature chapter 5

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What is NOT a part of literature in the Age of Reason?

1. personal emotions
2. balanced judgement
3. strict rules
4. knowledge and wisdom

The Enlightenment movement was in favor of:

1. ignorance
2. rationality
3. intolerance
4. inequality

Drag the titles to the authors:

Gulliver's Travels

The Rape of the Lock

Robinson  Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Jonathan Swift

Alexander Pope

How do you call words like: a good estate, whence, nay, regiment of foot, viz?

Which of the following names does NOT belong in the Age of Enlightenment?

1. Immanuel Kant
2. David Hume
3. Desiderius Erasmus
4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Which of the following was NOT promoted in the typical 18th century novel?

1. ambition
2. good sense
3. benevolence
4. virtue

Which of the following is NOT characteristic for a MYTH?

1. moral lessons
2. supernatural elements
3. good versus evil
4. a damsel in distress

How do you call words like: a good estate, whence, nay, regiment of foot, viz?

What were the people in the ship afraid of when trying to reach land?

Whose real-life adventure was the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe?

Why is Robinson Crusoe a typical product of the 18th century?

1. because it is a realistic novel
2. Because it is about a religious development
3. Because it is about slavery and global trade
4. because it deals with rational thought

Literature Test

BYOD test (bring your own device)

In Learnbeat, full screen

You can take your dictionary

FULL battery!

Three essay questions

Formulate your answer on paper

Count your words

Improve your answer

Type your answer in Learnbeat

Romanticism

Read your brochure p. 38

Do exercise 2 a, b

(Next slide: dialectics explained in 3 minutes)

18th/19th century
(industrial revolution)

Romanticism as a reaction

-Pollution

- Urbanisation

- Reason & science

-Exploitation (French Revolution 1789)

Most important characteristic:

The poet as a philosopher, teaching you how to live.

This lesson is the start of a series of lessons about 

GOOD or EVIL in humans consisting of:

1. Text 1,3 on page 26: 'Beyond Good and Evil' (Vocabulary test)
2. Literature chapter 5: Blake, St Paul and Solzhenitsyn
3. Novelette: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
4. Sermon by dr. Timothy Keller

Are humans born good, or are they born evil? Why do you think so?

Read text 1,3

What does the author conclude about the question whether humans are born good or evil?

-Write the answer somewhere on p. 36 of your lit brochure

-Read 'Literary period: Romantic Period 1798-1870', (p. 36) and continue doing assignment 2 etc. 

Tomorrow

- Make sure you have finished and studied pp. 36 and 37