Knowledge of Lit Terms & History (4)

___ is not one of the chief types of composition.

• narration

• description

• persuasion

• exposition

• argumentation

Which of these would be an example of folk etymology?

• athlete becomes athelete

• evening becomes even

• stain her honor or her new brocade

• sophomore becomes sophmore

• cole slaw becomes cold slaw

Iambic pentameter is called ___ because it’s often used in epic poetry.

• heroic line

• repetend

• epic simile

• jeu d’esprit

• Pushkin’s stanza

His/her attending George Bernard Shaw’s Nobel banquet would create an anachronism . . .

• Paul Valéry

• Luigi Pirandello

• Peter Handke

• Pearl Buck

• Thomas Mann

The recipient of the 1969 Pulitzer for fiction – House Made of Dawn – was author ___.

• N. Scott Momaday

• Sherman Alexie

• Leslie Marmon Silko

• Russell Means

• Octavio Paz

In which of these years was Robert Frost not awarded a Pulitzer for poetry?

• 1924

• 1931

• 1937

• 1943

• 1946

A person could currently watch the movie adaptation of this 1990 Pulitzer for drama on Netflix. The playwright is August Wilson . . .

• Three Tall Women

• Rent

• Fences

• The Piano Lesson

• A Chorus Line

Originally meaning “a drinking together” in Greek, this term has come to mean a discussion by different persons on a single topic . . .

• pasquinade

• symposium

• scholium

• colloquium

• débat

___ was not written by American novelist John Updike.

• Rabbit Redux

• The Coup

• Rabbit is Rich

• The Tale of Peter Rabbit

• Rabbit Run

Children of Violence, The Story of a Non-Marrying Man, and Memoirs of a Survivor have come from the pen of English writer ___.

• Peter Shaffer

• Doris Lessing

• Graham Greene

• John Fowles

• Stevie Smith