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61. Metaphysical Poetry is characterized by fantastic metaphors and extravagant hyperboles. 62. “Conceit” is a term applied in particular to the metaphysical school.63. The book carried by Christian in The Pilgrims Progress is supposed to be the Bible.64. The Revolution Period is also called the Puritan age, because it was carried out under a religious cloak.65. The Pilgrims Progress is the masterpiece of _, written in the old-fashioned, medieval form of _ and _, in which the main character is _.66. The Revolution period produced one of the most important poets in English literature, whose name is John Milton and an important prose wrier, John Bunyan.67. In The Pilgrims Progress, “a great load on his (Christians) back” refers to _.68. In The Pilgrims Progress, Christian makes his way to the Holy city with two objects: _ and _.69. In The Pilgrims Progress, Christian started from _ and were going to .70. “Areopagitica, or Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing” was written by _ in the form of _ addressed to the House of Parliament and was the declaration of peoples freedom of/in _.71. Samson Agonistes is a poetical drama. It deals with the story of Samson from the Book of Judges in the Old Testament.72. John Dryden, critic, poet, and playwright, was the most distinguished literary figure in the Restoration.73. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement, which first began in France and had a wide impact throughout Europe in the 18th century.74. People in the 18th century believed in reason.75. The Spectator, published by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in the early 18th century, was a moralisticjournal.76. Jonathan Swift wrote the famous story Gullivers Travels and the famous pamphlet “A Modest Proposal” on Ireland in the style of satire.77. The order of the places visited by Gulliver in Gulliver s Travels is Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Lapputa, andHouyhnhnms.78. The figure of speech used in “A Modest Proposal” is called irony.79. The Battle of the Book written by _ is a keen satire on _.80. The Tale of a Tub written by _ is a satire on _.81. Samuel Richardsons _ was regarded the first English psychological (analysis) novel, which was a long story told in the form of _.82. “Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded” is the famous novel written by Samuel Richardson in the form of _ and in the style of _.83. T. G. Smollet lived in the _ century. His The Adventures of Roderick Random mercilessly attacked mainly the regime in the English fleet.84. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle written by _ was a satire on all political charlatans, state system, and various prejudices and conventionalities.85. In the 18th century, satire was much used in writing; English literature of this age produced some excellent satirists, such as Defoe and Swift.86. Daniel Defoes famous navel was _.87. The main literary stream of the 18th century was realism.88. Henry Fielding was considered as the “father of English novel”.89. Sentimentalism found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Laurence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.90. The appearance and development of sentimentalism marked the midway in the transition from classicism to its opposite, romanticism.91. The most outstanding figure of English sentimentalism was _, whose Tristram Shandy and Sentimentalism Journey used the style and structure of antithesis92. In the last adventure, Gulliver came to a country where horses were possessed of reason while Yahoos were brute beasts.93. Joseph Andrews is Fieldings first novel. He wrote the novel with the intention of ridiculing Richardsons novelPamela.94. Richard Steele and Joseph Addison created the papers/journals The Talter and The Spectator.95. Among his other contributions to the theory and practice of prosody, _ made popular the so-called heroic couplets. 96. The two great dramatists in the 18th century were Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Sheridans most famous play was _.97. Thomas Gray wrote the famous poem Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard, which was considered “the best known poem in the English language”.98. Miltons Il Penserose and Grays Elegy saw the beginning and perfection of the “literature of melancholy”.99. The most independent and original poet in the 18th century was _.100. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of Pre-romanticism were William Blake andRobert Burns.101. The Songs of Experience, in which the central image is _, is one of the two important collections of poems written by _. His another important collection of poems is _, in which the central image is a child or lamb.102. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell was written by _, in which, with vigorous satire and telling apologue, the poet expressed the denial of the reality of matter, of _, and of _.103. “The poet of the peasants” is a title given to the greatest Scottish poet Robert Burns.104. William Blake is often regarded as a symbolist and mystic.105. Robert Burns is famous for his poetry written in Scottish dialect.106. Burns poems are largely based on imitation and revision of folk ballads of his motherland_.107. The first gothic novel is Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.108. The impetus of the Romantic Movement includes the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.109. The French Revolution proclaimed the natural rights of man and the abolition of class distinction.110. The Rights of Man, a pamphlet, was written by Thomas Paine, in which he advocated that politics was the business of the whole mass of common people and not only of a government oligarchy.111. The watchwords of the French Revolution are liberty, _, and_.112. The English Romanticism began with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads which was written in collaboration by William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge.113. Romanticism extended from 1798 when Lyrical Ballads was published and in 1832 w