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

+24

Standards-aligned

Created by

Emily McManis

Used 7+ times

FREE Resource

9 questions

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1.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

match

"Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary."

Chiasmus

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

Anaphora

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

Oxymoron

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

Zeugma

Almost exactly, old news, alone together, same difference

Synechdoche

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

2.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

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

Graveyard School

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

Inkhornists

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

Lost Generation

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

Harlem Renaissance

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

Beat Generation

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

Middle English Period

Old English Period

Anglo-Norman Period

Early Tudor Period

Elizabethan 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

4.

REORDER QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Reorder the following

Jacobean Age

Age of Johnson

Caroline Age

Restoration Age

Augustan 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

Early Victorian Age

Romantic Period

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

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

John Milton

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

James Joyce

Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Areopagitica

Tennessee Williams

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

"At the man"

Non sequitur

"It does not follow"

In medias res

"In the middle of things"

Carpe diem

"Seize the day"

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 or dramatic speech spoken by a solitary character

jeremiad

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

soliloquy

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

bathos

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

ode

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

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

Liminality

an intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack

Fabliau

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

Convective

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

Bowdlerize

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

Dénouement

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4