UIL LIT CRIT

In Old English Poetry, flyting was a boasting match between _____.

A prose poem is distinguished by what structural quality?

Who wrote the satirical The Sketch-Book?

Dadaism began in Europe after WWI. It disregarded the relationship between idea and statement, and promoted _____.

How does the town of Grover's Corners honor Doc Gibs?

In Saussurean Linguistics, Saussure set out to give a _____ approach to linguistics.

How are upstairs rooms represented on the stage of Our Town?

Mot juste most closely translates to mean _____.

What character collected stamps?

Another term for the oblique rhyme is _____.

The creature's contention "My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor" is an example of _____.

Against what type of poetry did the Metaphysical poets seem to be rebelling?

Coleridge utilizes ____ in the line, "Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike"

What event causes George embarassment when George treats Emily to a soda or drugstore?

M.H. Abrams asserted that there are four elements of a work of art. They include all of the following, except _____.

In 1992, the Pulitzer prize for poetry was awarded to _____ for Selected Poems.

The Realistic Period in American Literature took place in which time span?

Which of these sequences of American Literay periods is in the correct chronological order?

In 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to Angle of Repose by _____.

Local color writing portrays the speech, dress, mannerisms, thinking, and setting unique to a certain _____.

Tristam Shandy is the ____ of his Life and Opinion, not Laurence Stern.

The Miltonic sonnet was created by Milton as a variation of the _____ sonnet.

The variety of scazon called __ is characterized by use of trochee or dactyl to conclude a line which is iambic

What does Mrs. Webb wish so that Emily doesn't enter marriage like she did, "blind as a bat"?

The creature's confusion over DeLacey's inability to appreciate all they have shows the novel's thematic concern with

An example of prolusion is a(n) _____.

The notion that a text is practically non-existent until read characterizes _____ criticism.

Which term describes the structure of the frame narrative?

Jewish-Amerian literature emerged as field of study in about _____.

Alice Walker's _____ won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.

Inspired to a degree by Matthew Arnold, the writers Irving Babbitt, Paul Elmer More, and Norma Foerster led _____.