Lit Crit Practice Test 5 - Terms & History

A style of bookbinding in limp leather with over-lapping edges -- most often seen in Bibles is calls

• yapp
• hoax
• enchiridion
• flap
• errata

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

The literary terms for unintelligible use of a foreign lanaguage that one does not know is

• monoglot
• hypozeuxis
• eclogue
• koine
• xenoglossia

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Reaching America a generation or two after it developed in Europe, a movement characterized by a reliance on the intuition and conscience is

• Romanticism
• Transcendentalism
• Idealism
• Humanism
• Wellerism

"The more things change - the more they stay the same" is a line in which Dickens empolys

• peripety
• paradox
• peroration
• pleonasm
• polyptottn

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Robert Buchanan referred to this group as a "mutual admiration society."

• Della Cruscans
• Saturday Club
• Kit Kat Club
• Transcendentalists
• Fleshly School of Poetry

The group formed in London in 1764 at the behest of Sir Joshua Reynolds and included famous men from several fields is the

• Graveyard School
• Literary Club
• Saturday Club
• School of night
• Bluestockings

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Of the following the one NOT among the goals of the Oxford Reformers is that

• the church should be purged of corruption
• the church should follow Henry VIII's break with Rome.
• moral training should be accomplished through reason
• humanity should be uplifted through education.
• humanity should be uplifted through improvement of individual character.

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

The term for a feat of strength and virtuosity, which usually implies technical virtuosity more than literary strength.

• ubi sunt
• coup de theatre
• tour de force
• ultima thule
• tombeau

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

The earliest utopian work is

• Hobbe's Leviathan
• Huxley's Brave New World
• Plato's Republic
• Orwell's 1984
• Butler's Erewhom

The type of poetic foot in "aboveboard" is

• spondee
• amphimacer
• bacchius
• ambibrach
• paeon

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4