How does the Encyclopédie best epitomize the mission of the Enlightenment ?

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In The Rape of the Lock, Pope satirizes which of the following social institutions ?

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A. An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats’s poems C. A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley’s works D. A nod to the poet as outcast as in … The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy”...

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A. Like the novel, it focused on romantic relationships. B. Like the novel, it foregrounded abstract reason over experience and emotion. C. Like the novel, it emphasized the importance of sympathy and individual feelings. D. Like the novel, it demonized the aristocracy....

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A. Competition between European rivals forced the British to find new trading partners. B. Colonizers were no longer necessarily interested in reforming indigenous populations. C. People found ways to justify expansion by claiming national superiority. D. All of these answers...

What do Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s “Dejection Ode” have in common ?

A. An identical rhyme structure B. The belief that a person is incapable of change, even as he or she ages C. The sense of hope that death will come soon D. A shared theme that nature exposes the pain in human life...