Lit Crit UIL

Lit Crit UIL

9th - 12th Grade

9 Qs

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Lit Crit UIL

Lit Crit UIL

Assessment

Quiz

English

9th - 12th Grade

Easy

CCSS
RL.9-10.9, L.4.5, RF.3.3B

+24

Standards-aligned

Created by

Emily McManis

Used 7+ times

FREE Resource

9 questions

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1.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

match

"All over Ireland, the farmers grew potatoes, barley and bored."

Zeugma

Almost exactly, old news, alone together, same difference

Synechdoche

"All hands on deck!" in which "hands" represents sailors

Oxymoron

"Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary."

Chiasmus

“In every cry of every Man,In every infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban”

Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

2.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

1950's movement favoring Zen Buddhism, free sexuality, recreational drugs, and jazz music.

Graveyard School

American writers who moved to Europe for literary freedom. TS Eliot, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway

Beat Generation

Eighteenth century poets who wrote poems about death and immorality. Wrote with a tone of gloom.

Lost Generation

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

Harlem Renaissance

A group of Renaissance writers who introduced heavy Latin and Greek words into English vocabulary

Inkhornists

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

3.

REORDER QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Reorder the following

Old English Period

Anglo-Norman Period

Elizabethan Age

Early Tudor Period

Middle English Period

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

4.

REORDER QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Reorder the following

Restoration Age

Jacobean Age

Age of Johnson

Augustan Age

Caroline Age

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

5.

REORDER QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Reorder the following

Romantic Period

Late Victorian Age

Georgian Age

Early Victorian Age

Edwardian Age

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

6.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Areopagitica

Thomas Hardy

Dubliners, Finnegan's Wake, Ulysses, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

John Milton

Far From the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Tennessee Williams

The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Night of the Iguana

James Joyce

The Sun Also Rises, the Old Man in the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and a Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

7.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

"Seize the day"

Non sequitur

"It does not follow"

Carpe diem

"In the middle of things"

Ad Hominem

"At the man"

In medias res

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

8.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.

soliloquy

A literary or dramatic speech spoken by a solitary character

ode

insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity

syllogism

a three-part deductive argument where a conclusion is based on a major premise and a minor premise

jeremiad

A literary work or speech expressing a bitter lament or a righteous prophecy of doom

bathos

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

9.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

a period during which participant has left one place but not yet entered the next

Convective

In a plot, the tying up of loose ends. In a tragedy, sometimes called the catastrophe.

Dénouement

an intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack

Liminality

A short comic tale with a bawdy element, akin to the "dirty story."

Bowdlerize

(v.) to remove material considered offensive (from a book, play, film, etc.)

Fabliau

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4