Lit Crit District 2 2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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