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

• Geoffrey Chaucer.

• John Donne.

• Christopher Marlowe.

• John Milton.

• William Shakespeare.

The term/name 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 apparatus is

• Angry Young Men.

• Language Poets.

• Minimalism.

• New York Poets.

• Vorticism.

The metrical foot that consists of two unaccented syllables is called

• anapestic.

• iambic.

• pyrrhic.

• spondaic.

• trochaic.

The 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 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, "a funny, poignant play that deftly transposes [Shakespeare's] Hamlet to a family barbecue in the American South to grapple with questions of identity, kinship, responsibility, and honesty," 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.

• heteromerous 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.