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What is the purpose of “didactic” literature?  Provide at least two examples from the works we have read in the final section of the course, and explain how each fits the definition of “didactic.”

What are the three targets of “A Modest Proposal”?  Why does Swift attack them?

The Great Fire of London most likely prevented further outbreaks of plague due to rebuilding the city.

The Age of Reason and the Neoclassical Period are different periods.

Describe the Great Chain of Being.

Swift’s Modest Proposal was to eat the babies of Scotland.

Orgon is right to trust Tartuffe.

Define deus ex machina.  Which of the works we’ve read uses this element and how?

Ulysses is the Roman name for the Greek hero Odysseus who had been a character in The Iliad and The Odyssey. 

According to the poem “Ulysses,” his son will need to govern the people very similarly to the way he himself has ruled the people.