Knowledge of Lit Terms & History (2)

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Mercenary persons employed to applaud a work or a performance are known as a/an

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claque

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That part of a tragedy, usually as a part of the falling action, whose purpose is to provide temporary emotional relaxation for the audience is called a/an

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relief scene.

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The interpretation of a work of art through heavy reliance on aspects of the maker’s life as the basis of understanding is known as

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biographical fallacy.

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A minimal lexical unit—an item of vocabulary, such as a word or a stream, independent of grammatical function is a/an

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lexeme.

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The literary term for the marked use of the sibilant sounds represented by s, z, sh, zh, etc.

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sigmatism.

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Another term for a lampoon, or a short satirical piece, is a/an

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squib.

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Not a work for which Robert Frost received a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is: A Further Range., New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes., A Witness Tree., The Dust Which Is God., Collected Poems.

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The Dust Which Is God.

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August Wilson received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice--in

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1987 and 1990.

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The child of missionaries who wrote The Good Earth for which she received the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is

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Pearl S. Buck

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The author of “Gunga Din” and The Jungle Book who received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature is

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Rudyard Kipling