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The accidental interchange of sounds, usually the initial consonants, in two or more words is called

• spoomerism

• barbarism

• Gongorism

• malapropism

The species of ambiguity- usually intentional when it occurs in literature- ascribed to statements capable of two different meanings is known as

• neologism

• amphibology

• solecism

• amphigory

The group of writers organized in 1714 by Jonathan Swift to satirize both literary incompetence and the "false taste of the age" is known as the

• Grub Street Poets

• Satanic School

• Scriblerus Club

• Literary Club

The British recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, author of The Golden Notebook, The Grass is Singing, and The Good Terrorist, who has been described as an "epicist of the female experience" is

• Doris Lessing

• Virginia Woolf

• Beatrix Potter

• Nadine Gordimer

A word, phrase, or manner of expression, whether it is language, customs, dress, or any other characteristic, peculiar to a special region and not customarily used outside that region- therefore, not fashionable or sophisticated, is known as a

• regionalism

• euphemism

• barbarism

• provincialism

The recipient of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize or Fiction for The Optimist's Daughter is

• Carol Shields

• E. Annie Proulx

• Toni Morrison

• Eudora Welty

NOT designated by Kenneth Burke as one of the four master tropes (master because of their role in the discovery and description of "the truth") is

• simile

• metonymy

• irony

• metaphor

The first African- American recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1950) for her collection entitled Annie Allen is

• Gloria Naylor

• Gwendolyn Brooks

• Toni Morrison

• Alice Walker

A work of fiction, a major concern of which is the nature of fiction itself, such as John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman or John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse, is known as (a/n)

• framework-story

• objective correlative

• epistolary novel

• metafiction

The act of identifying ourselves with an object and participating in its physical and emotional sensations, which implies an involuntary projection of ourselves into something or someone else, is known as

• empathy

• hamartia

• catharsis

• sympathy