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| The card game in "Rape of the Lock", by Pope. The game starts in Canto 3. A card game played by the 3 suitors (including the Baron) and Belinda at the palace. Compared to a major battle in the "mock epic" style. |
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| A poem or song lamenting death or loss of something. Used in Gray's "Elegy..." Used to create the somber tone in Elegy - including the time of day (comparing the end of life), the graves present, and especially, the focus on the lives of the common man lost in the poem. |
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| The subject of Dryden's "Mac Flecknoe". Later a poet laureate of England. Dryden compares "Sh___" (Shadwell) to a night with no light shining through, illust. his disdain for his apparent lack of wit. He is the new "King of Nonsense" to replace Flecknoe. Dryden uses mock epic conventions to scathe him. |
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| Former king of England seen in the "Coronation" scene in Pepys' diary. Charles Stuart is the main draw of the Coronation ceremony. The memory of the coronation was so grand that it carries through details in "Mac Flecknoe" in "mock epic" style. |
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| Seen in Pope's "Essay on Man". Describes the order of the universe as a linked chain - if one chain happens to falter, eventually the whole falls into ruin. Significant as Pope and the Restoration period believed in this idea. |
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| Pope's "Rape of the Lock". Supernatural forces used to represent the four great elements, as well as the personalities of people. They primarily aid humans but will help animals too (Shock). The sylph Ariel assists Belinda by guarding Shock, as well as warns her of the coming "terrible" events of the day (the cutting of the lock.) |
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| The primary literary style used in "Mac Flecknoe" and "Rape of the Lock". A style or convention used to poke fun or mock at conventions of the time period. Some examples of this style in play are the Ombre game in Rape of the Lock (the movements of the cards being compared to great battles), the Coronation ceremony in Mac Flecknoe (mocking the REAL ceremony of Charles Stuart), and the situation of the lock of hair being cut in Rape... (Belinda going to the "underworld" with the sylph, Gnome) |
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| Coronation of Charles Stuart. Given full account of in the diary of Sam Pepys. The Coronation was a lovely affair, and Pepys notes the pomp and circumstances around it, including the monde, the scepter of the king, and the champion of the king, despite having to go to the bathroom during it! Pepys' account is one of the only personable accounts of the Coronation ceremony. |
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| A jab from Swift's "A Modest Proposal". It is directed to Alexander Pope, a staunch Catholic. In actuality, the two were very good friends. As well, Swift mockingly offers that the "popish infants" number "three-to-one" in his proposal, making for excess delicacies to dine on. |
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| Belinda's dog in Pope's "Rape of the Lock". Protected by the sylph, Ariel in Canto 3, as well as waking Ariel in Canto 1. |
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| A seminal work transitioning to the Romantic Period. A joint work by Coleridge and Wordsworth, it expresss a new ideal of poetry - "a powerful display of emotions". |
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| Byron's location in "Childe Harold." He is moved by the location, taking the stormy weather and conditions into himself to reflect on his own life. |
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