World Literature Study Guide for Third Quarter Examination on the Enlightenment and Romantic periods

Study your notes and your book for passages we discussed and for terms we defined.

Texts covered on the exam: 

Swift's "A Modest Proposal," Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Wordsworth's "Tintern Abby," Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades," and Keats' "Ode on Melancholy"

Know the time period and characteristics of both literary movements

Enlightenment for Swift and Wollstonecraft

Romanticism for Wordsworth, Pushkin and Keats

Know the major ideas we discussed with each writer.

Swift: Persona, Irony, Satire, Diction

Wollstonecraft: Essentialism, Constructionism, persona, logos, ethos and pathos

Wordsworth: Sublime, Imagination, Romantic poet

Pushkin: Narrative, the uncanny, Romance narrative

Keats: Negative Capability, Hegelian dialectic

Be ready for the identifications.

You'll be asked to write two to three short answer identifications of major concepts we have discussed in class. Here are some likely topics that might be on the exam:

Swift's own voice versus the persona in "Modest Proposal"
Essentialism versus Constructionism in Wollstonecraft
The Sublime in Wordsworth
The romance narrative in Pushkin
Keats' negative capability