Uil Literary Criticism Exam Latest And Updated 2024/2025

UIL LITERARY CRITICISM EXAM LATEST AND UPDATED 2024/2025 Caroline Age - CORRECT ANSWER-applied to the period of Charles I reign and to the spirit of the court, which was defined by its melancholy literature, decadent drama, and emphasis on classicism. It was in the Caroline times that Puritan migration was heaviest. Cavalier Lyricists - CORRECT ANSWER-The followers of Charles I and opposed to the supporters of the Parliament (called Roundheads). They composed lighthearted poems. They were soldiers and courtiers first and poets incidentally. Ciceronians - CORRECT ANSWER-a group of Latin stylists in the Renaissance who would not use any word that could not be found in Cicero's writings. Commonwealth Interregnum - CORRECT ANSWER-The period between Charles I's execution and the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, during which England was ruled by Parliament under the control of the Puritan leader Oliver Cromwell. Old English Period - CORRECT ANSWER-The period between the invasion of England by the Teutonic tribes of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, beginning around 428, and the establishment of Norman rule around 1100, following the triumphant Conquest by the Norman French under William the Conqueror. Old English - CORRECT ANSWER-That Germanic dialect spoken in the British Isles between the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century and the Norman Conquest in the eleventh. Middle English Period - CORRECT ANSWER-The period in English literature between the replacement of French by English as the language of the court and the appearance of modern writings. This is the period of the Black Death, the age of Chaucer, political and religious unrest, the Peasants Revolt, and the rise of the Lollards. Realistic Period - CORRECT ANSWER-This is the latter portion of Queen Victoria's reign and during the reign of Edward VII in which the literary intellectuals revolt against Victorian ideals. This is the period of Newton's mechanics, Darwin's evolution, Marx's view of history, Comte's view of society, and Taine's view of literature. Renaissance - CORRECT ANSWER-This word, meaning "rebirth," is commonly applied to the period in transition from the medieval to the modern world in Western Europe. It was an age of compromise in which artists endeavored to harmonize the Christian tradition with the newly discovered tradition of pagan classical culture. Restoration Age - CORRECT ANSWER-The Stuarts were restored to the throne of England. The literature was a reaction to Puritanism. A comedy of manners appeared in literature, the heroic drama appeared on the stage, and Dryden was the greatest poet of the period. Romantic Period - CORRECT ANSWER-The period between the publication of the Lyrical Ballads and the death of Dickens. In the first half of the period, literature expressed the value of the individual, optimism, and romantic view of nature. In the second half of the period, the literature was doubting and questioning. The Industrial Revolution is strong. School of Donne - CORRECT ANSWER-Another name for metaphysical poets School of Night - CORRECT ANSWER-A group of Elizabethan dramatists, poets, and scholars, with perhaps some nobility. Its leader was Sir Walter Ralegh and its members included Christopher Marlowe, George Chapman, and the mathematician Thomas Harriot. They studied the natural sciences, philosophy, and religion and were suspected of being atheists. School of Spenser - CORRECT ANSWER-A name given to a group of seventeenthcentury poets who showed the influence of Edmund Spenser. They were marked by sensuousness, melody, personifications, pictorial quality, interest in narrative, medievalism, archaisms, Spenserian stanzas, pastoralism, and moral earnestness. Scriblerus Club - CORRECT ANSWER-A club organized in London in 1714 by Jonathan Swift to satirize literary incompetence. It expressed its opinions of the false taste of the age, particularly of learning, through satiric fragment. Sentimentalism - CORRECT ANSWER-Arose as a reaction against Calvinism and was significant for 1) its overindulgence in emotion and 2) its overemphasis on the of the goodness of humanity. Lollards - CORRECT ANSWER-The name for the followers of John Wycliffe, an aid in translating the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English, who denounced the Church for their riches, asked that war be denounced as unchristian, and expressed disbelief in doctrines like transubstantiation, image worship, and pilgrimages. Some Lollards were burned as heretics. Luddites - CORRECT ANSWER-English workmen of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centurie