Lit Crit Invitational A

The genre of novel dominated by social customs, conventions, and habits of a particular social class, including the novels of Jane Austen, which is always characterized by realism and at times by satire, is the

• novel of character.

• novel of incident.

• novel of manners.

• novel of sensibility.

• novel of the soil

The use of morbid and the absurd for darkly comic purposes by such modern writers as Gunter Grass, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Harold Pinter, and Edward Albee is known as

• black humor.

• blood and thunder.

• fantasy.

• surrealism.

• travesty.

The character directly opposed to the chief character of a literary work is called the

• agroikos.

• antagonist.

• braggadocio.

• eiron.

• protagonist.

The nineteenth-century British author of Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Oliver Twist, Hard Times, and A Christmas Carol is

• Charles Dickens.

• George Eliot.

• Thomas Hardy.

• Rudyard Kipling.

• William Makepeace Thackeray.

The continuation of the sense and grammatical construction of a line of verse from one stanza to the next stanza is called (a)

• chiasmus.

• enjambment.

• fused rhyme.

• run-on line.

• tagline.

A term applied in general to things English and in particular to the English royal court during the second quarter of the seventeenth century, a general term that can encompass both Cavalier and Puritan literary expression is

• Augustine.

• Caroline.

• Edwardian.

• Jacobean.

• Victorian.

The figure of speech that seeks, by tapping into the knowledge and memory of the reader, to secure a resonant emotional effect from the associations already existing in the reader's mind is

• allusion.

• influence.

• milieu.

• mimesis.

• resume

The recipient of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Optimist's Daughter is

• Eudora Welty.

• Edith Wharton.

• Colson Whitehead.

• Thornton Wilder.

• Margaret Wilson.

Not among the many celebrated North American women writers known for their twentieth-century poetry is

• Maya Angelou.

• Margaret Atwood.

• Elizabeth Bishop.

• H.D.

• Emily Dickinson.

The literary trope that can be used to heighten effect, including humorous effect, through exaggeration is

• animism.

• gigantism.

• hyperbole.

• litotes.

• understatement.