UIL Lit Crit - Knowledge of Literary Terms and Literary History

Question 1

The first African-American writer to receive the Pulitzer Prize was _____.

Accepted Answer

Gwendolyn Brooks

Question 2

In Dramatic Structure, the event that sets the story into motion is the _____.

Accepted Answer

exciting force

Question 3

Two lines that rhyme and contain a complete thought or idea successively are called a(n) _____.

Accepted Answer

closed couplet

Question 4

An aside is shared between the actor and _____.

Accepted Answer

the audience

Question 5

In Pulitzer-winner T Wilder's Our Town, a character called "Stage Manager" functions as a(n)

Accepted Answer

chorus

Question 6

Originally a medieval form, a cinquian is now any _____.

Accepted Answer

five-lined stanza

Question 7

Jupiter Hammon and Phyllis Wheatley were writers who were also _____.

Accepted Answer

slaves

Question 8

What event during the Period of Conformity and Criticism halted radicalism?

Accepted Answer

World War II

Question 9

The 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to _____'s The Old Man and the Sea.

Accepted Answer

Ernest Hemingway

Question 10

The 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to which American writer?

Accepted Answer

Eugene O'Neill

Question 11

An acrostic that spells a word with the last letters of the lines is called a(n) _____.

Accepted Answer

telestich

Question 12

Existentialism emerged after _____.

Accepted Answer

World War II

Question 13

Which of the following lists of American literary periods is in the correct order?

Accepted Answer

Colonial,Early National, Realistic, Naturalistic, Postmodern

Question 14

Litcrit in the Middle Ages focused on the idea that literature should serve ___ and philosophy.

Accepted Answer

theology

Question 15

The word "soccer" is an example of what foot?

Accepted Answer

trochee

Question 16

The ____ Novel uses fantasy and illogical elements, dropping the conventions of fiction writing

Accepted Answer

Antirealistic

Question 17

Nature, another person, society, and oneself are four kinds of _____.

Accepted Answer

conflict

Question 18

W Temple's Essay upon Ancient and Modern Learning and W Wotton's Reflections... both relate to

Accepted Answer

Battle of the Books

Question 19

Blank verse is unrhymed and _____.

Accepted Answer

metrical

Question 20

The Revolutionary and Early National Period in America began with what event?

Accepted Answer

Stamp Act

Question 21

The 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to James Alan McPherson's _____.

Accepted Answer

Elbow Room

Question 22

A pastiche _____ the work of another writer or of a specific work.

Accepted Answer

copies

Question 23

The Middle English Period was dominated by literature with _____ themes.

Accepted Answer

religious

Question 24

Major _____ writers include John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren.

Accepted Answer

Agrarian

Question 25

James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist... & Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel are examples of

Accepted Answer

apprenticeship novels

Question 26

According to Aristotle, _____ is "imitated human action."

Accepted Answer

drama

Question 27

The 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was awarded to Lisel Mueller's _____.

Accepted Answer

Alive Together: New and Selected Poems

Question 28

The 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was awarded to Carolyn Kizer's _____.

Accepted Answer

Yin

Question 29

Dream Allegories were commonly used in the _____.

Accepted Answer

Middle Ages

Question 30

Louis Bromfield (won the 1927 Pulitzer for Fiction) was among the____living in Paris after WWI

Accepted Answer

expatriates

Question 31

The word "allowed" is an example of what foot?

Accepted Answer

iamb

Question 32

The Theater of Cruelty originated in what decade?

Accepted Answer

1930s

Question 33

A refrain is distinguished from a repetend by its _____.

Accepted Answer

predictability

Question 34

Aestheticism in America had its origins in all of the following, except _____.

Accepted Answer

Bertolt Brecht's alienation effect

Question 35

Recollections, reveries, and dream sequences are all ways an author might utilize _____.

Accepted Answer

flashback

Question 36

3 ways to present ___: tell what a character does, show it, or reveal their thoughts/feelings.

Accepted Answer

characterization

Question 37

Companion poems are written to complement each other, but they _____.

Accepted Answer

are complete on their own

Question 38

Who wrote the first important and most influential treatise on criticism?

Accepted Answer

Aristotle

Question 39

How many times have there been two winners named for the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Accepted Answer

4

Question 40

Similar to verisimilitude, _____ attempts to recreate things in art as they really are in life.

Accepted Answer

Realism

Question 41

In 1683, _____ was the first person to use the word "biography."

Accepted Answer

John Dryden

Question 42

Which of the following lists of English literary periods is in the correct order?

Accepted Answer

Middle English, Neoclassic, Romantic, Realistic, Modern

Question 43

What group of writers embraced the Gothic?

Accepted Answer

Romantics

Question 44

Boethius' "Consolation of Philosophy" was written during what period?

Accepted Answer

Old English

Question 45

_____ characterizes much of Pulitzer Prize-winning (1947) poet Robert Lowell's work.

Accepted Answer

Surrealism

Question 46

Why do fabulists feature talking animals as characters?

Accepted Answer

to universalize them

Question 47

An understudy is a(n) _____.

Accepted Answer

back-up actor

Question 48

British poet T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for Literature in _____.

Accepted Answer

1948

Question 49

All of the following are major writers of Magical Realism, except _____.

Accepted Answer

Joseph Heller

Question 50

The 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama was awarded to _____'s "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Accepted Answer

Tennessee Williams

Question 51

The 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to _____'s Laughing Boy.

Accepted Answer

Oliver LaFarge

Question 52

Folktales' many forms include all of the following, except _____.

Accepted Answer

pastiche

Question 53

Northrop Frye added a fourth stock character of Greek Old Comedy, the agroikos, a(n) _____.

Accepted Answer

ignorant country person

Question 54

The 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama was awarded to _____'s Lost in Yonkers.

Accepted Answer

Neil Simon

Question 55

Who put forward the concept of the alienation effect in theater?

Accepted Answer

Berlot Brecht

Question 56

The 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to William Styron's _____.

Accepted Answer

The Confessions of Nat Turner

Question 57

____ writers' work uses slang, profanity, loose structure, vision/drug refs, & eccentricity

Accepted Answer

Beat

Question 58

An intrusive narrator is a(n) _____ narrator who interrupts the story to give an explanation.

Accepted Answer

omniscient

Question 59

Authors often use a(n) _____ narrator for irony or emotional impact.

Accepted Answer

naive

Question 60

William Carlos Williams is an important poet of what period in American literature?

Accepted Answer

Modernism and Consolidation

UIL Lit Crit - Knowledge of Literary Terms and Literary History

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UIL Lit Crit - Knowledge of Literary Terms and Literary History

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