Popular in England while Elizabeth I reigned, the festive entertainment for the pleasure of both the eye and ear that later found its greatest expression in the hands of Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson is the

Not among the literary greats associated with the American Romantic Period is

The nineteenth-century English novelist whose final novel was published toward the end of the century and whose early twentieth-century poetry secured him a position as one of the great anglo-phone poets of the twentieth century is

The term used to designate the types or categories into which literary works are grouped according to form, technique, or, sometimes, subject matter is

A sustained and formal poem setting forth meditations on death or another solemn theme is a(n)

The philosophical movement, characterized by both idealism and romanticism, originating in Europe and reaching the United States during the nineteenth century and featuring a reliance on both intuition and the conscience in artistic thought, is

The reason, in part, that the Nobel Prize for Literature was not awarded during the years 1940-43 is the

The term originally referring to the dispersion of Jews among Gentiles but now referring to any writing having to do with any scattering of a population from a homeland to one or more alien environments is

The songwriter, actor, playwright, and filmmaker who received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his musical Hamilton is

A pause or break in a line of verse, which in classical poetry usually occurs near the middle of a line, is a(n)

The son of the recipient of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry who received the same honor in 2004 for his self-diagnostic collection of poems titled "Walking to Martha's Vineyard" is

In English-language prosody, the fairly rare line of six feet, one successfully adapted from classical prosody by one of the Fireside Poets, the narrative lyricist Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in "Evangeline" and "The Courtship of Miles Standish" is the

A form of Japanese poetry, usually addressing either nature or one of its elements, that states—in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables—a clear picture designed to arouse a distinct emotion and suggest a specific spiritual insight, is the

The nineteenth-century English novelist and poet who was the eldest of four siblings and author of "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," and "Villette" is

Not one of Kenneth Burke's four master tropes, which play a "role in the discovery and description of truth" is

In its figurative sense, the special usage of a word or words, often without the conscious knowledge of the author or reader, in which there is a change in the word's or words' basic meanings is

A literary pseudonym that some fastidious scholars insist should always be cited with quotation marks, especially pseudonyms like "Mark Twain" and "Sholem Aleichem," which are really phrases not names, is a(n)

The term that embodies the application of principles of scientific (either biological or socioeconomic) determinism in literature, which, in turn, characterizes a literary movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is

The nineteenth-century New England poet whose posthumously published poetry ensures that she is regarded as a singularly important American poet is

A figure of speech used for so long that it is taken in its denotative sense only, without the conscious comparison to a physical object it once conveyed, is known as a(n)

An article, including any book, that one keeps constantly on hand is called a(n)

The French verse pattern that is relatively artificial but very popular with many English-language poets and which consists of fifteen lines, the ninth and fifteenth being a short refrain, and which has only two rhymes (exclusive of the refrain) is the

Not one of the several important twentieth-century literary groups or movements in the United States is (the)

The term applying to women of pronounced intellectual interests and finding popularity after 1750 as a result of its application to a London group of women of literary and intellectual tastes who held intellectual assemblies or conversations with literary and ingenious men including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, and Edmund Burke is

The simple French verse form that usually consists of eight lines, the first two being repeated as the last two lines, recurring also as the fourth, and, additionally, featuring an ab aa abab rhyme scheme, is the

The diagram that is often used to reflect the structure of a five-act tragedy is known as (a/n)

The age in English literature, a segment of the Renaissance, that witnessed the publication of the King James translation of the Bible and the development of drama to its highest level and during which Wm Shakespeare composed his sonnets is the

The native Texan and recipient of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her collection of short stories and short novels, The Collected Stories, is

A cultural artifact that might or might not be words, might or might not be written down, and that is typically characterized by imagination, emotion, significant meaning, and sense impressions, as well as concrete language that invites attention to its own physical features (such as sound and appearance on the page) is generally agreed to be a(n)