Knowledge of Lit Terms & History (3)

The term for unrhymed verse, usually in iambic pentameter, is ___.

• free verse

• blank verse

• rime riche

• homeoteleuton

• promotion

The literary term for a section or a division in a long poem is ___.

• canto

• epic

• stanza

• tableau

• scop

Two successive lines rhyming aa and containing a grammatically complete, independent statement are known as a(n) ___.

• heroic couplet

• open couplet

• distich

• closed couplet

• loose sentence

A “strong curtain” is ___.

• a scene which ends with a dramatic soliloquy

• the unraveling of a conflict

• a powerful conclusion to an act or a play

• the end of the scene containing the denouement

• the last line before a curtain falls

The accepted definition of tragedy is ___.

• sad song

• emotional finale

• sad action

• death song

• goat song

Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella were penned by __.

• Edmund Spenser

• Stephen Crane

• Philip Sidney

• Christopher Marlowe

• Walt Whitman

The Life of Donne was composed in 1640 by ___.

• Richard Lovelace

• John Milton

• Matthew Arnold

• Izaak Walton

• Emily Brontë

“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” was written by ___.

• Ambrose Bierce

• Bret Harte

• Mark Twain

• Frank Norris

• Zane Grey

The American author of Paradise and The Bluest Eye, who received the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature is ___.

• Saul Bellow

• Toni Morrison

• Doris Lessing

• Selma Lagerlof

• Zora Neale Hurston

John Patrick Shanley was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Doubt: A Parable in ___.

• 1968

• 1986

• 1997

• 1928

• 1939