Lit Crit UIL

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• Almost exactly, old news, alone together, same difference

• Synechdoche

• "Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary."

• Chiasmus

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

• Anaphora

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

• Zeugma

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

• Oxymoron

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• 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.

• Graveyard School

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

• Beat Generation

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

• Harlem Renaissance

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

• Inkhornists

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• Old English Period

• Anglo-Norman Period

• Middle English Period

• Early Tudor Period

• Elizabethan Age

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• Jacobean Age

• Caroline Age

• Restoration Age

• Augustan Age

• Age of Johnson

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• Romantic Period

• Early Victorian Age

• Late Victorian Age

• Edwardian Age

• Georgian Age

Match the following

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

• John Milton

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

• James Joyce

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

• Tennessee Williams

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

• Thomas Hardy

• Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Areopagitica

• Ernest Hemingway

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• "In the middle of things"

• Non sequitur

• "At the man"

• Ad Hominem

• "Seize the day"

• Carpe diem

• "It does not follow"

• In medias res

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

• syllogism

• A literary or dramatic speech spoken by a solitary character

• bathos

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

• jeremiad

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

• ode

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

• soliloquy

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

• Dénouement

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

• Fabliau

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

• Convective

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

• Bowdlerize

• an intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack

• Liminality