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Generally, a patterning of vowel sounds without regard to consonants is called

• assonance.

• concordance.

• consonance.

• dissonance.

• resonance.

Popular in England while Elizabeth I reigned, the festive entertainment for the pleasure of both the eye and ear that later found its greatest expression in the hands of Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson is the

• burlesque.

• carnivalesque.

• dramatic monologue.

• masque.

• pageant.

Not among the literary greats associated with the American Romantic Period is

• Nathaniel Hawthorne.

• Washington Irving.

• Herman Melville.

• Edgar Allan Poe.

• Mark Twain.

The nineteenth-century English novelist whose final novel was published toward the end of the century and whose early twentieth-century poetry secured him a position as one of the great anglo-phone poets of the twentieth century is

• Samuel Butler.

• Charles Dickens.

• Thomas Hardy.

• Robert Louis Stevenson.

• Oscar Wilde.

The term used to designate the types or categories into which literary works are grouped according to form, technique, or, sometimes, subject matter is

• abridgment.

• genre.

• philology.

• synopsis.

• typology.

A sustained and formal poem setting forth meditations on death or another solemn theme is a(n)

• elegy.

• encomium.

• eulogy.

• paean.

• threnody.

The philosophical movement, characterized by both idealism and romanticism, originating in Europe and reaching the United States during the nineteenth century and featuring a reliance on both intuition and the conscience in artistic thought, is

• dandyism.

• existentialism.

• philistinism.

• pictorialism.

• transcendentalism.

The reason, in part, that the Nobel Prize for Literature was not awarded during the years 1940-43 is the

• dearth of nominees.

• death and mourning of Alfred Bernhard Nobel.

• German occupation of Norway during WWII.

• lack of qualified translators.

• Russian occupation of Nobel, Ukraine.

The term originally referring to the dispersion of Jews among Gentiles but now referring to any writing having to do with any scattering of a population from a homeland to one or more alien environments is

• diasporic literature.

• dystopian literature.

• epistolary literature.

• nekuian literature.

• utopian literature.

The songwriter, actor, playwright, and filmmaker who received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his musical Hamilton is

• Horton Foote.

• David Lindsay-Abaire.

• David Mamet.

• Lin-Manuel Miranda.

• Paul Zindel.