Lit Crit A & B 2022

Composition written as though intended to be sung outdoors at night under a window in praise of a loved one

Pure, serious comedy that appeals to intellect and arouses thoughtful laughter, shows follies of social manners

Early 19th century NY literary society based on geography and chance more than close organization

Author of Lord of the Rings trilogy

Term denoting various newspapers and magazines specializing in scandal and sensation

Form of Elizabethan drama, usually Senecan in inspiration and technique, made popular by Thomas Kyd and Shakespeare

Her plays are influenced by family, pop culture and feminism; won 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Heidi Chronicles

Poetic foot of an accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable, one of the duple feet

Person who, through contrast, underscores the distinctive characteristics of another person:

Literature, usually prose fiction, written partly or entirely as letters

Author of All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian, and No Country for Old Men; 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner for The Road

1982 Nobel Prize winner, author known as an exemplar for magical realism

Term suggesting complacency or hypocrisy in 19th century Britian in cautious treatment of profanity and sex in lit

English lit. period spanning 1660-1798 inc. Restoration Age, Augustan Age, and Age of Johnson

The "unknotting" or unraveling of a plot, solution of a mystery, or outcome of a narrative drama

20th-century author of The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls

NOT among terms describing complimentary repetition of sounds appearing as end rhyme without vocal correspondence

Recipient of 2014 Pulitzer Prize for collections of poems examining life from birth to dementia entitled 3 Sections

Variety of folk song developed in the southern US; melancholy, repetitive, sung slowly in a minor mode

19th-century author of novel of manners including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey

Patterning of vowel sounds without regard to consonants

19th-century period when US experienced its 1st great creative wave--Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Thoreau, Emerson, et. al.

Name significant to the narrative's meaning

Broad term referring to the recognition of difference between reality and appearance

Women of intellectual interests and tastes who held assemblies or conversations with literary and ingenious men

Terms that designate an author by a name other than his or hers:

unrhymed but otherwise regular verse, usually iambic pentameter

Writing that reads the same from left to right and right to left

Early 20th-century author of The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Marne, and Ethan Fromme

Pantomime performance used in a play; silent acting as it appears in Elizabethan drama

18th-century author of A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, Gulliver's Travels, and "A Modest Proposal"

Period of gradual tempering of romantic impulse & steady growth of realism in English letters; Browning, Tennyson, et.al

The word "rebirth" commonly applied to transition from medieval to modern world in Western Europe

logical turn in thought; beginning of sestet in Italian sonnet; between lines 12 and 13 in Shakespearean sonnet

Recipient of Pulitzer Prize for Drama and NY Drama Critics Circle Award for her stage adaptation of Look Homeward, Angel

Last half of 18th century England; result of historians' seeing 1750-1798 as seed field for emerging romantic qualities

British novelist & playwright; Lord of the Flies author; received 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature

First major literary movement of African-American writers resulting from migration to Northern American cities

Scheme of great antiquity that divides history into a line/cycle of stages marking chronology of human existence

Postwar Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, 3-timeNobel-nominated English-American author of The Age of Anxiety

19th-century author of Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Bostonians

School of British poets born in the '40's who struggled to see the world as if from afar:

Poem in which lines are arranged to form a design on the page, taking the shape of the subject

Period in English lit from WWI-WWII and its aftermath, characterized by influential writers who are not actually English

NOT one of the 5 ages of the English Renaissance:

Dignified formal speech that praises a person or thing, often delivered as part of services for the dead

20th-century Jewish-American author of American Pastoral, for which he received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Author of Song of Solomon, Jazz, and Tar Baby, wona 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature & a Puliter Prize for Beloved

Censorious attitude blended with humor and wit for improving human institutions or humanity in general

Metaphor, metonymy, synechdoche, irony

Elizabethan dramatists, poets, scholars who studied natural sciences, philosophy & religion; suspected of being athiests

Character who develops or changes as a result of actions of the plot

Cultural artifact, might/might not be written down, invites attention to sound and appearance on the page

Verse that does not have set rhyme or rhythm

Self-contradictory combination of words or smaller units

Genre that encompasses novels, usually comedic, with universities as their setting:

Repetition of initial consonant sounds or any vowel sounds in successive or closely associated syllables

Relationship between words in which final consonants in stressed syllables agree but vowels before them differ