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Total questions: 120
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1.
The figure of speech in which normal sentence order is transposed or rearranged in a major way is
a)
hypallage.
b)
hyperbaton.
c)
hyperbole.
d)
hyperthesis.
e)
hypotaxis
2.
The recipient of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her best-selling novel Gone with the Wind, with over thirty million copies sold worldwide, is
a)
Pearl S. Buck.
b)
Harper Lee.
c)
Margaret Mitchell.
d)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
e)
Alice Walker
3.
The group of mid-nineteenth-century British poets whose verse reflects contemporary discontent and unrest and whose style is marked by jerkiness and strained emphasis is the
a)
Lake School.
b)
Martian School.
c)
Satanic School.
d)
Spasmodic School.
e)
Cockney School
4.
The modern movement in politics, economics, and literature, the most apparent characteristics being brevity, economy, and modesty, is
a)
aestheticism.
b)
existentialism.
c)
minimalism.
d)
relativism.
e)
vorticism
5.
The early nineteenth-century New England literary group that includes William Cullen Bryant and John Greenleaf Whittier, named for an image that suggests warmth and domesticity as well as their northern environment, is the
a)
Fireside Poets.
b)
Hartford Wits.
c)
Knickerbocker Group.
d)
Muckrakers.
e)
New York School
6.
Not among the major elements or stages of Freytag's Pyramid is
a)
anastrophe.
b)
catastrophe.
c)
complication.
d)
exposition.
e)
reversal
7.
The first major, self-conscious literary movement of African American writers and poets in
the United States is known as the
a)
Black Mountain School.
b)
Fugitives.
c)
Harlem Renaissance.
d)
New York Poets.
e)
Parnassians
8.
A composition, usually verse, arranged in such a way that it spells words, phrases, or sentences when certain letters are selected according to an orderly sequence is an
a)
abecedarian.
b)
acrostic.
c)
anagram.
d)
ananym.
9.
Originally applied to painting, the critical term that addresses contrasting light and darkness in various literary forms is
a)
charade.
b)
chiaroscuro.
c)
chiasmus.
d)
chrestomathy.
10.
The movement that began late in the nineteenth century and was devoted to the preservation of the language and culture of Ireland in response to the imposition of the English-language culture since the seventeenth century is the
a)
Bloomsbury Group.
b)
Gaelic Movement.
c)
Geneva School.
d)
Tribe of Ben.
11.
The process by which an unhealthy emotional state produced by an imbalance of feelings is corrected and emotional health is restored, especially in terms of an audience's response to the fate of a tragic hero, is known as
a)
aporia.
b)
catharsis.
c)
hubris.
d)
peripety.
12.
The nineteenth-century American author of The Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline, and "Paul Revere's Ride" is
a)
Paul Laurence Dunbar.
b)
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
c)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
d)
Edgar Allan Poe.
13.
A word, phrase, or manner of expression, whether it is language, customs, dress, or any other characteristic peculiar to a special region and not commonly used outside that region and, therefore, considerednot fashionable or sophisticated is known as a
a)
barbarism.
b)
regionalism.
c)
Gongorism.
d)
provincialism.
14.
A narrative or tradition handed down from the past that is characterized by having something of the historical truth and relatively little of the supernatural is called (a/an)
a)
anecdote.
b)
folklore.
c)
legend.
d)
myth.
15.
A type of storytelling as old as the Hebrew Testament that was particularly popular around the turn of the twentieth century and features a story inside a story is the
a)
framework-story.
b)
miscellany.
c)
montage.
d)
palimpsest.
16.
A work of fiction, a major concern of which is the nature of fiction itself, such as Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse, and John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman, is known as (a/an)
a)
epistolary novel.
b)
framework-story.
c)
leitmotif.
d)
metafiction.
17.
Not one of the works of eighteenth-century Irish author Jonathan Swift is
a)
Gulliver's Travels.
b)
A Journal to Stella.
c)
"A Modest Proposal."
d)
Robinson Crusoe.
18.
The style of music, song, and performance that became popular in the 1970s, beginning in Jamaica and spreading through the Caribbean, the subjects usually dealing with religious and political subjects, is known as
a)
koine.
b)
quip.
c)
rap.
d)
reggae.
19.
The turn-of-the-nineteenth-century English Romantic poet who wrote and illuminated (illustrated) Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is
a)
William Blake.
b)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
c)
William Hazlitt.
d)
Robert Southey.
20.
The term that, from the very late nineteenth through the twenty-first century, denotes the various newspapers and magazines specializing in scandal and sensation is
a)
affective fallacy.
b)
intentional fallacy.
c)
metafiction.
d)
yellow journalism.
21.
The twentieth-century Irish philosopher and novelist who wrote The Nice and the Good, The Black Prince, Nuns and Soldiers, A Good Apprentice, The Book and the Brotherhood, and The Message to the Planet is
a)
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory.
b)
Elizabeth Bowen.
c)
Mary Lavin.
d)
Iris Murdoch.
22.
In literature, the description of one kind of sensation in terms of another, i.e. of colors in terms of temperature or sounds in terms of colors, and serving as one of the most distinctive characteristics of symbolist poetry, is
a)
discordia concors.
b)
metaphor.
c)
onomatopoeia.
d)
synæsthesia.
23.
The accidental interchange of sounds, usually the initial consonants, in two or more words is called a
a)
barbarism.
b)
Gongorism.
c)
malapropism.
d)
spoonerism.
24.
The Chilean poet who received the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature and whose suspicious death in 1973 under the Pinochet regime has recently led to a reexamination of the forensic evidence obtained after an exhumation is
a)
Juan Ramón Jiménez.
b)
Gabriel Garcia Márquez.
c)
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez.
d)
Pablo Neruda.
25.
The term usually applied to a group of early-twentieth-century Southern American writers in Nashville, Tennessee, who published the little magazine entitled The Fugitive is
a)
Agrarians.
b)
Beat Generation.
c)
Knickerbocker Group.
d)
Muckrakers.
26.
The fixed nineteen-line form, originally French, employing only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to the pattern abá aba abáaba abá abaá is the
a)
cinquain.
b)
pantoum.
c)
rondeau.
d)
villanelle.
27.
The twentieth-century playwright and member of the American Theater Hall of Fame whose Strange Interlude and Long Day's Journey into Night earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1928 and 1957, respectively, is
a)
William Inge.
b)
Archibald MacLeish.
c)
Eugene O'Neill.
d)
Neil Simon.
28.
All of the poetic feet listed below can comprise duple meter, with the exception of the
a)
dactyl.
b)
iamb.
c)
pyrrhic.
d)
trochee.
29.
The group of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century writers, principally in France but also in England and America, who held that art is superior to nature and that the finest beauty is that of dying and decaying things is the
a)
Aesthetes.
b)
Decadents.
c)
Imagists.
d)
Parnassians.
30.
The environmental activist known as the poet laureate of deep ecology who received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection of poems and essays entitled Turtle Island is
a)
Stephen Dunn.
b)
Philip Levine.
c)
Paul Muldoon.
d)
Gary Snyder.
31.
A speech delivered while the speaker is alone and calculated to inform the audience of what is passing in the character's mind is known as a(n)
a)
apostrophe.
b)
aside.
c)
dramatic monologue.
d)
soliloquy.
32.
The recipient of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Good Earth is
a)
Margaret Ayer Barnes.
b)
Pearl S. Buck.
c)
Caroline Miller.
d)
Edith Wharton.
33.
The emotional implications and associations that words may carry, as distinguished from the meanings usually offered as basic dictionary definitions, are known as a word's
a)
abridgment.
b)
connotation.
c)
definition.
d)
denotation.
34.
. The Muslim collection of scriptural writings–a collection of moral teaching, liturgical directions, and advice on religious conduct and ceremonials– recognized as an official transcription of revelations from the seventh century, is the
a)
Koran.
b)
Märchen.
c)
Mishnah.
d)
Rubáiyát.
35.
The revival of emotional religion during the first half of the eighteenth century in America is known as
a)
Dandyism.
b)
the Great Awakening.
c)
the Harlem Renaissance.
d)
Transcendentalism.
36.
The common English verse triple-syllable foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables is the
a)
anapest.
b)
antibacchius.
c)
dactyl.
d)
pyrrhic.
37.
Not one of the novels written by the nineteenth century American author Nathaniel Hawthorne is
a)
The Blithedale Romance.
b)
The House of the Seven Gables.
c)
The Scarlet Letter.
d)
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
38.
The identity of terminal sound between primarily accented syllables, usually occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verse, is known as
a)
breve.
b)
diction.
c)
macron.
d)
rhyme
39.
A poem treating of shepherds and rustic life, the more sophisticated concept involving inversion, through which the complex is put into the simple, i.e. an expressing of complex ideas through simple personages, is known as a
a)
folk ballad.
b)
lipogram.
c)
pastoral.
d)
requiem.
40.
A list of printed (or manuscript) materials on any chosen topic is called a
a)
bibliography.
b)
chrestomathy.
c)
folio.
d)
footnote.
41.
The playwright who wrote Fences and The Piano Lesson, both of which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1987 and 1990, respectively, is
a)
Neil Simon.
b)
Alfred Uhry.
c)
Tennessee Williams.
d)
August Wilson.
42.
Not one of the periods in the American canon during which writers and other artists were influenced by the great sectional and social problems that have been so much a part of the fabric of this nation is the
a)
Federalist Age.
b)
Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period.
c)
Postmodern Period.
d)
Realistic Period.
43.
The term used by E. M. Forster for a character sufficiently complex to be able to surprise the reader without losing credibility is a
a)
braggadocio.
b)
flat character.
c)
round character.
d)
static character.
44.
The Irish author of Mrs. Warren's Profession, Arms and the Man, Man and Superman, and Saint Joan who received the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature is
a)
Samuel Beckett.
b)
Mairéad Corrigan.
c)
Seamus Heaney.
d)
George Bernard Shaw.
45.
The philosophical movement that reached America from Europe in the nineteenth century in which a reliance on intuition and the conscience characterizes artistic thought is
a)
Existentialism.
b)
Philistinism.
c)
Transcendentalism.
d)
Unitarianism.
46.
The nineteenth-century American author of Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, Little Men, and Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out is
a)
Louisa May Alcott.
b)
Kate Chopin
c)
Emily Dickinson.
d)
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
47.
Something that is itself and which also stands for something else and that, in a literary sense, combines a literal and sensuous quality with an abstract or suggestive aspect is a(n)
a)
emblem.
b)
icon.
c)
kitsch.
d)
symbol.
48.
Not one of the periods in English literary history that make up the English Renaissance Period, 1500-1660, is the
a)
Caroline Age
b)
Commonwealth and Interregnum Period.
c)
Jacobean Age.
d)
Restoration Age.
49.
A pantomime performance used in a play, particularly the silent acting as it appears in Elizabethan drama, is called
a)
comic relief.
b)
dramatis personae.
c)
dumb show.
d)
mock drama.
50.
The type of lyric poem that is characterized by its single, unified strain of exalted feeling and style, by its single purpose, and by its dealing with one theme is the
a)
aubade.
b)
ballad.
c)
elegy.
d)
ode.
51.
Writing marked by dialect, eccentric characters, and sentimentalized pathos or whimsical humor, and exploiting geographically specific speech, dress, mannerisms, and habits of thought, especially that writing associated with late nineteenth-century American artistic interest in the portrayal of a geographic setting is known as (a)
a)
dialectic.
b)
local color.
c)
melodrama.
d)
provincialism.
52.
The immensely successful early twentieth-century British author of The Moon and Sixpence, Of Human Bondage, The Razor's Edge, and Cakes and Ale, and The Skeleton in the Cupboard is
a)
William Golding.
b)
Rudyard Kipling.
c)
W. Somerset Maugham.
d)
Bertrand A. W. Russell.
53.
Not included as one of the stagings comprising the diagram that Gustav Freytag developed as a heuristic means of getting at the structure of a plot line is
a)
catastrophe.
b)
complication.
c)
reversal.
d)
volta.
54.
The twentieth-century British author of To the Lighthouse and leader of the Bloomsbury Group is
a)
Agatha Christie.
b)
Beatrix Potter.
c)
Stevie Smith.
d)
Virginia Woolf.
55.
The collective term derived from the Edinburgh Review's contemptuous attitude regarding Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Robert Southey and their poetry is
a)
Frankfort School.
b)
Graveyard School.
c)
Lake School.
d)
Martian School.
56.
The name used by the nineteenth-century longterm British poet laureate Robert Southey to designate the members of the literary group made up of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Leigh Hunt, and others, whose irregular lives and radical ideas, defiantly flaunted in their writings, suggested the name, is
a)
Cockney School.
b)
Frankfort School.
c)
Geneva School.
d)
Satanic School.
57.
The 2014 United States poet laureate from Tennessee who received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection of lyrical meditations entitled Black Zodiac is
a)
Richard Howard.
b)
Philip Levine.
c)
Paul Muldoon.
d)
Charles Wright.
58.
Literally meaning a "gathering of flowers," the term designating a collection of writings, usually by various authors, is
a)
anthology.
b)
chrestomathy.
c)
compendium.
d)
omnibus.
59.
The device by which a work presents material that occurred prior to the opening scene of the work is
a)
digression.
b)
elaboration.
c)
flashback.
d)
foreshadowing.
60.
Literature—usually prose fiction—entirely or partly written as letters (not alphabetic characters) is known as (a)
a)
documentary novel.
b)
epistolary literature.
c)
narratology.
d)
transliteration.
61.
A poem expressing grief, usually more intense and more personal than a renaissance complaint, is called a (n)
a)
aubade.
b)
elegy.
c)
lament.
d)
pastoral.
62.
The age in English literature that witnessed the development of drama to its highest form is the
a)
Caroline Age.
b)
Elizabethan Age.
c)
Jacobean Age.
d)
Late Victorian Age.
63.
The genre of novel that places unusual emphasis on interior characterization and the motives, circumstances, and internal action that spring from, and develop, the novel's external action is the
a)
epistolary novel.
b)
novel of character.
c)
novel of sensibility.
d)
psychological novel.
64.
The second half or resolution of a dramatic plot in which the failing fortunes of, for instance, the tragic hero are exhibited is called the
a)
exposition.
b)
falling action.
c)
moment of suspense.
d)
reversal.
65.
The author of Love's Labour's Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, Coriolanus, King John, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and All's Well That Ends Well is
a)
John Fletcher.
b)
Thomas Kyd.
c)
Christopher Marlowe.
d)
William Shakespeare.
66.
An interrogative statement propounded for its stylistic or oratorical effect and not requiring a reply or intended to induce a reply is a (n)
a)
dialectic.
b)
equivoque.
c)
objective correlative.
d)
rhetorical question.
67.
Not one of the British literary groups of the twentieth century is (the)
a)
Bloomsbury Group.
b)
Fireside Poets.
c)
Language Poets.
d)
The Movement.
68.
Any comic book or graphic novel, originally Japanese, that, since the early 1950s, presents in book form a story of fantasy, science fiction, or romance represents the style known a
a)
anime.
b)
bunraku.
c)
kabuki.
d)
manga.
69.
The system of manners and morals, which as a product of medieval feudalism, characterizes, in a highly idealized form, medieval romance is
a)
Byronism.
b)
chivalry.
c)
decadence.
d)
patronage.
70.
The playwright whose Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in both 1938 and 1943 is
a)
David Auburn.
b)
Horton Foote.
c)
Sidney Kingsley.
d)
Thornton Wilder.
71.
The point at which the opposing forces that create the conflict interlock in the decisive action on which a plot will turn is called (a)
a)
crisis.
b)
dénouement.
c)
peripety.
d)
volta.
72.
The honorary position that has, over the centuries, encompassed a wide range of duties, including the writing of verse in times of national stress or strong patriotic feeling and for special occasions, is the
a)
minnesinger.
b)
poet laureate.
c)
poetaster.
d)
troubadour.
73.
Words with the same or similar, though by convention not exact, meanings are
a)
antonyms.
b)
eponyms.
c)
homonyms.
d)
synonyms.
74.
The recipient of the Robert Frost lifetime achievement award as well as the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection of poems, Annie Allen, is
a)
Rae Armantrout.
b)
Gwendolyn Brooks.
c)
Rita Dove.
d)
Claudia Emerson.
75.
The term that, in drama, refers to a particular kind of play as originally defined in Aristotle's Poetics and which recounts a causally related sequence of events in the life of a person of significance, culminating in an unhappy catastrophe, the whole treated with dignity and seriousness, is
a)
chronicle play.
b)
comedy.
c)
melodrama.
d)
tragedy.
76.
The period of American literature in which Benjamin Franklin, Anne Bradstreet, and Jonathan Edwards flourished as authors is called the
a)
Colonial Period.
b)
Postmodern Period.
c)
Revolutionary and Early National Period.
d)
Romantic Period.
77.
A central idea that in nonfiction prose is recognized as the general topic and in fiction, poetry, and drama is considered the abstract concept made concrete through representation is (the)
a)
climax.
b)
motif.
c)
theme.
d)
thesis.
78.
Not one of Charles Dickens's nineteenth-century novels is
a)
Adam Bede.
b)
David Copperfield.
c)
Hard Times.
d)
Oliver Twist.
79.
The literary trope that can be used to heighten effect, including humorous effect, through exaggeration is
a)
animism.
b)
gigantism.
c)
hyperbole.
d)
litotes.
80.
The late-nineteenth-century, early twentiethcentury English author of Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories, Just So Stories for Little Children, Captains Courageous, "The Man Who Would Be King," and Kim who received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature i
a)
Thomas Hardy.
b)
James Joyce.
c)
Rudyard Kipling.
d)
D.H. Lawrence.
81.
The word meaning 'rebirth' commonly applied to the period of transition from the medieval to the modern world in Western Europe is
a)
boustrophedon.
b)
jeremiad.
c)
neoclassicism.
d)
renaissance.
82.
Heralded as "the father of American literature" but not a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for any of his fifteen-plus major works is
a)
Robert Olden Butler.
b)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
c)
N. Scott Momaday.
d)
John Kennedy Toole.
83.
The term originally used as a substitute for "popular antiquities" but now used to categorize the comparision and identification of the surviving evidence of archaic beliefs, customs, and traditions in modern ages is
a)
folk ballad.
b)
folk etymology.
c)
folklore.
d)
folktale.
84.
A term used, often narrowly, to suggest a certain complacency, hypocrisy, or squeamishness assumed to characterize the attitudes of the last half of the nineteenth century in Britain, all of which are apparent in the cautious manner with which writers treat such matters as profanity and sex, is
a)
dandyism.
b)
hedonism.
c)
Puritanism.
d)
Victorianism.
85.
The continuation of the sense and grammatical construction of a line of verse from one stanza to the next stanza is called (a
a)
enjambment.
b)
fused rhyme.
c)
metaplasm.
d)
run-on line.
86.
The recurrent grouping of two or more verse lines in terms of length, metrical form, and often rhyme schemes is knows as a(n)
a)
arabesque.
b)
hemistich.
c)
monostich.
d)
stanza.
87.
The recipient of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes, the 1931 Pulitzer for his Collected Poems, the 1937 Pulitzer for A Further Range, and the 1943 Pulitzer for his A Witness Tree is
a)
John Berryman.
b)
Alan Dugan.
c)
Robert Frost.
d)
Mark Strand.
88.
The twentieth-century Scottish recipient of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1993 whose novels include Momento Mori, The Primse of Miss Jean Brodie, Loitering with Intent, A Far Cry from Kensington, Aiding and Abetting, and The Finishing School is
a)
Nadine Gordimer.
b)
Doris Lessing.
c)
Edna O'Brien.
d)
Muriel Spark.
89.
A novel in which actual persons are presented under the guise of fiction is known as a
a)
ro·man à clef.
b)
roman à thèse
c)
roman noir
d)
roman de geste
90.
A proverb or saying made familar by long use, such as "a stitch in time saves nine," is a(n)
a)
adage.
b)
anecdote.
c)
epigram.
d)
limerick.
91.
Any expression so often used that its freshness and clarity have worn off is called a (n)
a)
allusion.
b)
cliché.
c)
pun.
d)
quibble.
92.
A name applied to the belief–widely held in Western Europe during the nineteenth century–that society has an innate tendency toward improvement and that the tendency can be furthered by conscious human effort is
a)
archaism.
b)
determinism.
c)
expressionism.
d)
meliorism.
93.
The period in English literature between the death of Victoria and the beginning of World War I is the
a)
Augustan Age.
b)
Caroline Age.
c)
Edwardian Age.
d)
Jacobean Age.
94.
A section or division of a long poem, originally, a section of a narrative poem of such length as to be sung by a minstrel in one singing is known as a(n)
a)
aubade.
b)
ballad.
c)
canto.
d)
monody.
95.
The term that embodies the application of principles of scientific determinism in literature, which, in turn, characterizes a literary movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is
a)
Darwinism.
b)
Erastianism.
c)
Naturalism.
d)
Objectivism.
96.
Not among terms originally or exclusively used in the film industry is
a)
cross-cutting.
b)
deep focus.
c)
rough cut.
d)
unities.
97.
A term applied to women of pronounced intellectual interests that gained currency after 1750 and whose "membership" has included Elizabeth Montagu and Horace Walpole, among others, is
a)
Bloomsbury Group.
b)
Bluestockings.
c)
Kit-Cat Club.
d)
Literary Club.
98.
The recipient of the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the short familial play The Subject Was Roses is
a)
Edward Albee.
b)
Marc Connelly.
c)
Owen Davis.
d)
Frank D. Gilroy.
99.
The figure of speech that makes a brief reference to a historical, literary, or cultural figure, event, or object is
a)
allusion.
b)
apostrophe.
c)
epiphany.
d)
tableau.
100.
Three times a Pulitzer Prize finalist, the Serbian American imagist poet who received the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection entitled The World Doesn't End is
a)
John Berryman.
b)
Robert Hass.
c)
Ted Kooser.
d)
Charles Simic.
101.
To expurgate a piece of writing by omitting material considered offensive or indecorous, especially to female modesty, as demonstrated in some early nineteenth-century editions of Shakespeare's plays, is to
a)
abridge.
b)
bowdlerize.
c)
quibble.
d)
truncate.
102.
The Peruvian writer, university professor, and onetime presidential candidate who received the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature is
a)
José Echegaray.
b)
Mario Vargas Llosa.
c)
Gabriel García Márquez.
d)
Gabriela Mistral.
103.
Not having an eponymic origin, an origin based on the name of a real or fictional character, is the literary term
a)
Byronism.
b)
euphemism.
c)
grundyism.
d)
malapropism.
104.
The twentieth-century American "Genius Award" recipient and author of V, The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, Mason and Dixon, and Against the Day is
a)
William Faulkner.
b)
Cormac McCarthy.
c)
Larry McMurtry.
d)
Thomas Pynchon.
105.
A chronicle, usually autobiographical, presenting the life story of a rascal of low degree engaged in menial tasks and making his living more through his wit than his industry, and tending to be episodic and structureless, is known as a (n)
a)
epistolary novel.
b)
novel of character.
c)
novel of manners.
d)
picaresque novel.
106.
The term that means literally a manifestation or showing-forth that designates an event in which the essential nature of something—a person, a situation, an object—is suddenly perceived is
a)
alienation effect.
b)
apostrophe.
c)
epiphany.
d)
nekuia.
107.
The Elizabethan author of The Shepheardes Calendar, The Fairie Queene, Amoretti, and Epithalamion is
a)
Ben Jonson.
b)
Christopher Marlowe
c)
William Shakespeare.
d)
Edward Spencer.
108.
The specific geographic and scenic qualities of the physical setting in which a story's action takes place is its
a)
locale.
b)
milieu.
c)
revue.
d)
setting.
109.
The nineteenth-century American short story author who wrote The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, and Eureka: A Prose Poem is
a)
Ambrose Bierce.
b)
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
c)
Washington Irving.
d)
Edgar Allan Poe.
110.
A Japanese poetic form that, in cultural transliteration, features, usually, seventeen syllables arranged in lines of five, seven, and five and relies on humor or satire rather than nature or the seasons is the
a)
haiku.
b)
lai.
c)
senryu.
d)
tanka.
111.
The term literally meaning mask that is widely used to refer to a "second self " created by an author and through whom a narrative is told is
a)
allonym.
b)
doppelgänger.
c)
eponym.
d)
persona.
112.
The followers of England's Charles I who composed lighthearted poems thematically concerned with war, love, chivalry, and loyalty to the king, and among whose numbers are Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, and Sir John Suckling, are known as
a)
Cavalier Lyricists.
b)
the Fleshly School of Poetry.
c)
Goliardic Poets.
d)
the Lake Poets
113.
The overweening pride or insolence that results in the misfortune of the protagonist of a tragedy is called
a)
catharsis.
b)
hamartia.
c)
hubris.
d)
nemesis.
114.
The Bengali American recipient of both the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for her short story collection Interpreter of Maladies is
a)
Indira Goswami.
b)
Jhumpa Lahiri.
c)
Sudha Murthy.
d)
Arundhati Roy.
115.
sThe group of American writers, including Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Upton Sinclair, who between 1902 and 1911 worked to expose the dishonest methods and unscrupulous motives in big business and in city, state, and national government i
a)
the Agrarians.
b)
The Fugitives.
c)
the Lost Generation.
d)
the Muckrakers.
116.
Not considered to be one of the chief elements or genres contributing to the development of Elizabethan drama is/are
a)
medieval drama.
b)
morality plays.
c)
Restoration plays.
d)
Roman comedies.
117.
The group of American poets who flourished between 1950 and 1970, the members distinguished by urbanity, wit, learning, spontaneity, and exuberance and having an interest in modern painting, French culture, and jazz, is the
a)
Fireside Poets.
b)
Hartford Wits.
c)
Knickerbocker Group.
d)
New York School.
118.
In prosody, the emphasis given to a syllable in articulation is called a (n)
a)
accent.
b)
breve.
c)
caesura.
d)
diastole.
119.
The nineteenth-century British novelist who wrote Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and Lady Susan is
a)
Jane Austen.
b)
Charlotte Bronte.
c)
Emily Bronte.
d)
Fanny Burney.
120.
A type of word formed by telescoping two words into one, as the making of "squarson" from "squire" and "parson," "smog" from "smoke" and "fog," and "muppet" from "marionette" and "puppet," is a (n)
a)
allelograph.
b)
correption.
c)
fractal.
d)
portmanteau word.
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