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

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Standards-aligned

Created by

Emily McManis

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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."

Chiasmus

Almost exactly, old news, alone together, same difference

Oxymoron

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

Anaphora

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

Zeugma

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

Synechdoche

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

2.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

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

Lost Generation

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

Inkhornists

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

Beat Generation

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

Harlem Renaissance

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

Graveyard School

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

Middle English Period

Elizabethan Age

Early Tudor Period

Anglo-Norman 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

Caroline Age

Augustan Age

Age of Johnson

Jacobean Age

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

5.

REORDER QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Reorder the following

Late Victorian Age

Romantic Period

Early Victorian Age

Georgian 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

John Milton

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

Tennessee Williams

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

James Joyce

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

Thomas Hardy

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

7.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

"Seize the day"

Non sequitur

"In the middle of things"

In medias res

"It does not follow"

Carpe diem

"At the man"

Ad Hominem

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

soliloquy

A literary or dramatic speech spoken by a solitary character

ode

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

jeremiad

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

syllogism

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

Dénouement

an intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack

Liminality

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

Convective

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

Bowdlerize

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

Fabliau

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4