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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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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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