Lit Crit UIL

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English
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9th - 12th Grade
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Emily McManis
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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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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