The use of morbid and the absurd for darkly comic purposes by such modern writers as Gunter Grass, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Harold Pinter, and Edward Albee is known as

The character directly opposed to the chief character of a literary work is called the

The nineteenth-century British author of Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Oliver Twist, Hard Times, and A Christmas Carol is

The continuation of the sense and grammatical construction of a line of verse from one stanza to the next stanza is called (a)

A term applied in general to things English and in particular to the English royal court during the second quarter of the seventeenth century, a general term that can encompass both Cavalier and Puritan literary expression is

The figure of speech that seeks, by tapping into the knowledge and memory of the reader, to secure a resonant emotional effect from the associations already existing in the reader's mind is

The recipient of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Optimist's Daughter is

Not among the many celebrated North American women writers known for their twentieth-century poetry is

The literary trope that can be used to heighten effect, including humorous effect, through exaggeration is