Literary Criticism Contest - Invitational A 2024

The repetition of initial consonant sounds or any vowel sounds in successive or closely associated syllables is recognized as

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• resonance

• sigmatism

The first major, self-conscious literary movement of African-American writers that resulted in part from a massive migration of young, talented writers and poets to northern American cities is known as the

• Black Mountain School

• Harlem Renaissance

• Muckrakers

• New York Poets

• Parnassians

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

In prosody the duple foot composed of two accented syllables is the

• anapest

• iamb

• pyrrhic

• spondee

• trochee

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

Noted for her realistic portrayal of the morals and lifestyles of the Gilded Age, the author of Ethan Frome and The House of Mirth and recipient of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence is

• Pearl S. Buck

• Willa Cather

• Caroline Miller

• Margaret Mitchell

• Edith Wharton

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

The belief that everything partakes of a hierarchical system, extending upward from inanimate matter to man, to angels, to God, is known as

• animism

• deism

• Great Chain of Being

• hieronymy

• pantheism

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

The term that, no matter how it is used, always involves a sort of "yoking" together of words as direct objects or objects of prepositions is

• metonymy

• simile

• synaesthesia

• synecdoche

• zeugma

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The British novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist whose writing focused on British India and who was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature is

• Winston Churchill

• William Golding

• Rudyard Kipling

• Harold Pinter

• Bertrand Russell

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

Instructiveness in a work, one purpose of which is to give guidance in moral and ethical matters, is

• aestheticism

• didacticism

• existentialism

• hedonism

• vorticism

The nineteenth-century American author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Roughing It, Pudd'nhead Wilson, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is

• James Fenimore Cooper

• Bret Harte

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Mark Twain

• Walt Whitman

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

Not one of Kenneth Burke's four master tropes concerned with the discovery and description of the truth is

• irony

• metaphor

• metonymy

• simile

• synecdoche