Lit Crit District 2 2014

Question 1

Absurdist playwright, won Pulitzer from Drama in 1967, 1975, &1994, wrote Three Tall Women

Accepted Answer

Edward Albee

Question 2

18th C. Irish author of The Vicar of Wakefield, She Stoops to Conquer, and The Deserted Village

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Oliver Goldsmith

Question 3

Poem or genre concerning rural setting and people that includes "shepherds" of some kind is a

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pastoral

Question 4

Philosophy that started in Europe and reached U.S. in 19th C. favors intuition and conscience

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transcendentalism

Question 5

Easily understood tale popular in medieval France, having human characters and humorous satire

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fabliau

Question 6

Derogatory term used to characterize the bad writers and hacks living in central London

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Grub Street

Question 7

Composition written to be sung out of doors at night under a window in praise of a loved one

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serenade

Question 8

Continuation of sense and grammatical construction of a line from 1 verse or couplet o the next

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enjambment

Question 9

Impressionist dramatist & novelist who influenced Theater of the Absurd, won Nobel in 1934

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Luigi Pirandello

Question 10

Dramatic Fform, largely Senecan, made popular on Elizabethan stage by Kyd and Shakespeare

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revenge tragedy

Question 11

NOT one of the five elements of the technical structure of a serious play (dramatic structure)

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peripety

Question 12

Of English royal court during 2nd quarter of 17th C., incl. Puritan and Cavalier literature

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Caroline

Question 13

A statement that although seemingly contradictory or absurd may be well founded or true

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paradox

Question 14

Revival of emotional religion during first half of eighteenth century in America is known as

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the Great Awakening

Question 15

Club of literary and scientific people in & around Boston in mid-19th C., also a social club

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Saturday Club

Question 16

Verse arranged so it spells words, phrases, or sentences when certain letters are selected

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acrostic

Question 17

American literary period of Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, and Jonathan Edwards

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Colonial Period

Question 18

NOT a type of poetry whose origins can be traced back to the Greeks is the

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jeremiad

Question 19

Southern critic and author of the roman a clef All the King's Men, he also won a Pulitzer Prize

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Robert Penn Warren

Question 20

20th C. American author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain

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E. Annie Proulx

Question 21

Renaissance writers who favored the introduction of heavy Latin and Greek words into English

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Inkhornists

Question 22

Form of verse to be sung or recited, it has a dramatic or exciting episode in narrative form

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ballad

Question 23

NOT one of the 19th and 20th C. Anglophone poets who wrote dramatic monologues

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 24

Sequence that thickens as it moves towards an end, each word a syllable longer than that before

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rhopalic

Question 25

Modern movement in literature characterized by brevity, economy, and modesty

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minimalism

Question 26

18th C. American author of Experiments & Observations in Electricity and Poor Richard's Almanac

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Ben Franklin

Question 27

Figure of speech that taps into the knowledge and memory of a reader create an emotional effect

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allusion

Question 28

Belief in hierarchical order, extending upward from inanimate matter to man, to angels, to God

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Great Chain of Being

Question 29

Substitution of the name of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself

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metonymy

Question 30

African American poet and recipient of 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Neon Vernacular

Accepted Answer

Yusef Komunyakaa

Lit Crit District 2 2014

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Lit Crit District 2 2014

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