Handbook of Literary Terms

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Item 1
the period from 1660 to 1800 in England has been
gave several names; the Augustan age, the
Enlightenment, and the Age Of Reason.


Corrected
The period from 1660 to 1800 in England has been
given several names—the Augustan Age, the
Enlightenment, and the Age of Reason.
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Item 2
british men and woman produced many brilliant
works of Philosophy Art and Literature during this
time


Corrected
British men and women produced many brilliant
works of philosophy, art, and literature during this
time.
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Item 3
Many types of literature, was produced during the
enlightenment




Corrected
Many types of literature were produced during the
Enlightenment. [comma deleted]
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Item 4
Novels, a new genre become very popular during
the eighteenth century




Corrected
Novels, a new genre, became very popular during
the eighteenth century.
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Item 5
to speak out against what they saw as morale
corruption in society writers like Alexander Pope
and Jonathan Swift turnned to satire.


Corrected
To speak out against what they saw as moral
corruption in society, writers like Alexander Pope
and Jonathan Swift turned to satire.
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Item 6
Satire is a kind of writeing, that ridicules human
weakness vice or folly to bring about social reform




Corrected
Satire is a kind of writing that ridicules human
weakness, vice, or folly to bring about social
reform. [comma after writing deleted]
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Item 7
Their are three types of irony verbal, situational,
and dramatic.




Corrected
There are three types of irony: verbal, situational,
and dramatic.
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Item 8
Swift promotes reform of Politics and Religion in
his satiric novel “Gulliver’s Travels”




Corrected
Swift promotes reform of politics and religion in
his satiric novel Gulliver’s Travels.
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Item 9
Alexander Pope begun his literary career writing
pastorals which is poems describeing the
countryside.


Corrected
Alexander Pope began his literary career writing
pastorals, which are poems describing the
countryside.
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Item 10
Popes’ long poem An Essay On Man was published
when Pope was forty five years’ old.




Corrected
Pope’s long poem An Essay on Man was
published when Pope was forty-five years old.
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Item 11
The ideas in the poem come not only from Pope
but also from: Plato aristotle, Dante shakespeare
Bacon, and others.


Corrected
The ideas in the poem come not only from Pope
but also from Plato, Aristotle, Dante, Shakespeare,
Bacon, and others. [colon deleted]
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Item 12
The mock epic the rape of the lock is based on an
incident that actualy took place a lock of hair was
cut without the owners’ permission


Corrected
The mock epic The Rape of the Lock is based on
an incident that actually took place: A lock of hair
was cut without the owner’s permission.
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Item 13
Mary Wollstonecraft, ironicaly enough, eventualy
marryed William Godwin a man with who she had
had many a political disagreement.


Corrected
Mary Wollstonecraft, ironically enough,
eventually married William Godwin, a man with
whom she had had many a political disagreement.
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Item 14
“Can you beleive asked Emilio “That Wollstonecraft
was called “a hyena in petticoats”?




Corrected
“Can you believe,” asked Emilio, “that
Wollstonecraft was called ‘a hyena in petticoats’?”