UIL Lit Crit Inv. Meet #1

The period of English literature that begins with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads and ends with the death of Dickens is the

• Middle English Period.

• Renaissance.

• Neoclassic Period.

• Romantic Period.

• Modernist Period.

A variation of the Italian sonnet that maintains the rhyme scheme but eliminates the volta is the

• Spenserian sonnet.

• English sonnet.

• Miltonic sonnet.

• Anglo-Italian sonnet.

• caudate sonnet.

The author of A Passage to India, A Room with a View, and the posthumously published Maurice is

• Gertrude Stein.

• J. M. Synge.

• H. G. Wells.

• E. M. Forster.

• Virginia Woolf.

The type of literature exemplified by Ionesco's The Bald Soprano and Beckett's Waiting for Godot is

• revenge tragedy.

• Theater of the Absurd.

• pièce bien faite.

• satyr play.

• morality play.

Not among the authors to make meaningful contributions to American literature of the 20th century is

• J. D. Salinger.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson.

• John Steinbeck.

• Ernest Hemingway.

• William Faulkner.

The philosophical principle that states that "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity," often labeled the principle of parsimony, is

• Grimm's Law.

• freier indirekter.

• Verfremdungseffekt.

• Ockham's Razor.

• verbum infans formula.

The Nobel Prize committee recognized this British author, "who in [his or her] plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms," when it awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize to

• Luigi Pirandello.

• Samuel Beckett.

• George Bernard Shaw.

• Eugene O'Neill.

• Harold Pinter.

The group of Scottish writers whose work dealt idyllically with village life in Scotland is the

• Knickerbocker Group.

• Kailyard School.

• Graver-Fork School.

• Silver-Fork School.

• School of Donne.

From the German for "gaudy trash," shallow, flashy art designed to have popular and commercial success is labeled

• entwicklungsroman.

• verfremdungseffekt.

• künstlerroman.

• bildungsroman.

• kitsch.

The period of American literature that saw uncertainty, revolt, cynicism and a strong turning inward of many American writers is the

• Revolutionary and Early National Period.

• Romantic Period.

• Realistic Period.

• Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period.

• Period of the Confessional Self.