With which literary form or movement is the Restoration most closely associated ?
Correct answer: B. Comedies of manners
- A. Familiar essays
- B. Comedies of manners
- C. Romanticism
- D. Medievalism
Explanation
The Restoration is especially associated with the comedy of manners, which satirised the sexual intrigues, fashions, and social behaviour of fashionable society. Romanticism and medievalism belong to later or different literary contexts, while the familiar essay is chiefly linked with Addison and Steele.
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