Lit Crit

Who wrote The Book of the Duchess, Troilus and Criseyde, The Parlement of Foules, The Legend of Good Women, and Canterbury Tales

• John Dome

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Christopher Marlowe

• William Shakespeare

the term applied around 1980 to a group of American poets whose work shows radical suspicion, skepticism, or cynicism about the efficacy of the written form of language to record, register, represent, communicate, or express anything much beyond its own intramural aparatus

• Language Poets

• Minimalism

• Angry Young Men

• Vorticism

• New York Poets

the metrical foot that consists of two unaccented syllables is called

• anapestic

• iambic

• pyrrhic

• spondiac

• trochaic

authors John Barbour, Adam Smith, David Hume, Alexander Montgomerie, Robert Burns, John Knox, Sir Walter Scott, and Hugh MacDiarmid represent the canon of

• African-American Literature

• Irish Literature

• Jewish-American Literature

• Scottish Literature

• Welsh Literature

The Irish mythopoeic poet and dramatist who was awarded the 1923 Nobel Peace Prize for Literature is

• Seamus Heaney

• James Joyce

• Jonathan Swift

• Oscar Wilde

• William Butler Yeats

NOT a term used to designate a poet or a musician, often one who travels, who tells stories of great deeds, love, or chivalry is

• bard

• braggadocio

• gleeman

• scop

• troubadour

The author of Fat Ham, which earned him the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is

• Edward Albee

• Christopher Durang

• Horton Foote

• James Ijames

• David Mamet

rhyme in which the rhyming stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed, undifferentiated syllables is

• assonant rhyme

• compound rhyme

• hetetomerous rhyme

• leonine rhyme

• triple rhyme

the idea that primitive human beings are naturally good and whatever evil they develop is the product of the corrupting action of civilization is represented by the term

• hedonism

• humanism

• meliorism

• noble savage

• primitivism

the emotional-intellectual attitude of the author toward the subject is known as the literary work's

• empathy

• humor

• mood

• motif

• voice-over