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4 English Literature in the 18th Century Ⅰ. Essay questions. 1. Comment on the feature of the neoclassical literature. 2. State the artistic features of Gulliver’s Travels. 3. Daniel Defoe’s novels Robison Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England. 4. Discuss the artistic features of Henry Fielding’s novels. 5. What makes Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy one of the most original works in English literature? 6. Analyze Gulliver’s Travels to illustrate the use the satire in it. 7. Comment on the main features of Alexander Pope’s works. Ⅱ. Define the following terms. 1. Three unities 9. Persona 2. Didactic literature 10. Epigram 3. Satire 11. Gothic novel 4. Mock epic 12. Graveyard school of poetry 5. Farce 13. Neoclassicism 6. Burlesque 14. Fiction 7. Picaresque novel 15. Anti-hero 8. Melodrama 16. Foreshadowing Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks. 1. Most of the writers in the 18th century were enlighteners. They fell into two groups: the ________group and the _______________group. 2. The principal elements of the ________novel are mystery, horror and suspense. 3. Laurence Sterne’s fame rests chiefly on his two books, __________and A Sentimental Journey, esp. the former. 4. Pamela is written in the form of a ______novel. 5. The only novel of Oliver Goldsmith is _________, which gives a detailed account of the numerous misfortunes befalling the central character and his family. 6. _________written by Sheridan is a clever satire on the sentimental and pseudo-romantic fancies of many young women of the upper classes of the 18th century. 7. The biography of Samuel Jonson en