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

Created by

Emily McManis

Used 7+ times

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9 questions

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1.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

match

"Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary."

Zeugma

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

Anaphora

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

Chiasmus

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

Oxymoron

Almost exactly, old news, alone together, same difference

Synechdoche

2.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

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

Inkhornists

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

Lost Generation

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

Beat Generation

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

Graveyard School

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

Harlem Renaissance

3.

REORDER QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Reorder the following

Early Tudor Period

Old English Period

Elizabethan Age

Middle English Period

Anglo-Norman Period

4.

REORDER QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Reorder the following

Augustan Age

Age of Johnson

Restoration Age

Jacobean Age

Caroline Age

5.

REORDER QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Reorder the following

Romantic Period

Edwardian Age

Georgian Age

Early Victorian Age

Late Victorian Age

6.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

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

John Milton

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

Tennessee Williams

Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Areopagitica

Ernest Hemingway

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

James Joyce

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

Thomas Hardy

7.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

"Seize the day"

Non sequitur

"In the middle of things"

Carpe diem

"It does not follow"

Ad Hominem

"At the man"

In medias res

8.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

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

bathos

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

ode

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

jeremiad

A literary or dramatic speech spoken by a solitary character

syllogism

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

soliloquy

9.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

an intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack

Convective

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

Fabliau

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

Liminality

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

Dénouement

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

Bowdlerize