English IV B 3 – Flashcards
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS - A person who arrives with a retinue is arriving with
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other people.
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS - What did the farmer who found Gulliver in Brobdingnag eventually do with him?
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sold him to the queen
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS - When you are treated with civility you are being show
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politeness.
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS - Which person is most likely to deliver a panegyric?
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a politician
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A MODEST PROPOSAL - An encumbrance is something that makes your life
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harder.
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A MODEST PROPOSAL - A deplorable situation is one that is
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wretched.
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A MODEST PROPOSAL - Deference is something you show to people you
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respect.
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A MODEST PROPOSAL - A name for a prodigious meal is a
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feast
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS - When the Brobdingnagian prince makes fun of the ways of English society Gulliver
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very nearly begins to laugh himself.
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS - Swift's main purpose in writing Gulliver's Travels was to
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comment on society and human nature.
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS - Swift makes the fantasy worlds of Lilliput and Brobdingnag seem more believable by
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adding realistic details of everyday life.
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS - A teacher who takes time to recapitulate a lecture is giving a
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summary.
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS - A morose person is
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sad.
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A MODEST PROPOSAL - To remove all suggestion of irony from the title of this essay one might rename it
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An Outrageous Proposal.
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A MODEST PROPOSAL - The overall tone of this essay could best be described as
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mock-earnest.
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A MODEST PROPOSAL - According to the speaker's calculations the greatest number of children born in Ireland
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are born into poverty.
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A MODEST PROPOSAL - The speaker believes that the answer to Ireland's problems lies in
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cannibalism
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A MODEST PROPOSAL - Swift's main purpose in writing this essay was most probably to
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shock the reader into realizing the plight of Ireland's poor.
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A MODEST PROPOSAL - What is the primary consideration of the speaker's argument?
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economics
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A MODEST PROPOSAL - An expedient is something that gets you
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where you want to be.
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A MODEST PROPOSAL - According to the speaker all of the following are advantages of his proposal except that
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the number of abentee landlords will fall.
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A MODEST PROPOSAL - Which of the following best describes the cumulative effect on the reader of the speaker's presenting the advantages of his proposal one after another?
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horrifying
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A MODEST PROPOSAL - What point does Swift make through the speaker's statement that the landlords have "already devoured most of the parents" of poor children?
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Landlords are responsible for the poverty of poor people.
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A MODEST PROPOSAL - Which of the following best describes the values of the "experts" to whom the speaker refers?
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materialistic
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A MODEST PROPOSAL - Swift suggests that the main problem with absentee landlords is that they
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take from, but do not add to, Ireland's economy.
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS - When Gulliver realizes that his Lilliputian captors are only six inches high he
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does not attempt to escape.
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS - Which type of satire does Swift use most often in Gulliver's Travels?
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Juvenalian
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS - The Brobdingnagians think of Gulliver as
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an amusing plaything.
