Knowledge of Lit Terms & History (2)

Mercenary persons employed to applaud a work or a performance are known as a/an

• audience.

• claque.

• catch.

• litterateur.

• rariora.

That part of a tragedy, usually as a part of the falling action, whose purpose is to provide temporary emotional relaxation for the audience is called a/an

• cauda.

• heterodyne.

• relief scene.

• spell.

• refrain.

The interpretation of a work of art through heavy reliance on aspects of the maker’s life as the basis of understanding is known as

• bibliography.

• pathetic fallacy.

• bibelot.

• biographical fallacy.

• affective fallacy.

A minimal lexical unit—an item of vocabulary, such as a word or a stream, independent of grammatical function is a/an

• lexeme.

• phoneme.

• nucleus.

• perissosyllabic.

• life.

The literary term for the marked use of the sibilant sounds represented by s, z, sh, zh, etc., is

• sigmatism.

• prosonomasia.

• assonance.

• excursus.

• nemesis.

Another term for a lampoon, or a short satirical piece, is a/an

• quip.

• squib.

• rebus.

• spuria.

• threnody.

Not a work for which Robert Frost received a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is

• A Further Range.

• New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.

• A Witness Tree.

• The Dust Which Is God.

• Collected Poems.

August Wilson received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice--in

• 1987 and 1990.

• 1981 and 1987.

• 1991 and 1996.

• 1993 and 1998.

• 1975 and 1982.

The child of missionaries who wrote The Good Earth for which she received the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is

• Margaret Ayer Barnes.

• Margaret Mitchell.

• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

• Caroline Miller.

• Pearl S. Buck.

The author of “Gunga Din” and The Jungle Book who received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature is

• William Butler Years

• Anatole France.

• Winston Churchill.

• Patrick White.

• Rudyard Kipling.