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UIL Literary Criticism - Nobel Prize Winners and Terms Certification Exam 2024 Updated Bob Dylan - CORRECT ANSWER-2016 for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition Svetlana Alexievich - CORRECT ANSWER-2015 "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time" Patrick Modiano - CORRECT ANSWER-2014 "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occu...

UIL Literary Criticism Test Exam Questions and Answers 2024 The Protagonist of a play or novel who has the opposite of most traditional attributes of a hero, such as Don Quixote or Holden Caulfield is a(n) - CORRECT ANSWERAntihero a douzain is a verse with_____ lines - CORRECT ANSWER-12 Harvard publishes a well known periodical in which the verse and prose ridicule and satirize their subjects in a scurrilous manner. It is called the Harvard______, so named for its sardonic content. - ...

UIL Literary Criticism Terms, Literary Criticism UIL Exam Questions and Answers 2024 Absolute - CORRECT ANSWER-a word free from limitations or qualifications ("best," "all," "unique," "perfect") Accismus - CORRECT ANSWER-a form of irony in which a person feigns indifference to or pretends to refusesomething he or she desires Acronym - CORRECT ANSWER-a word formed from the initial letters of words and pronounced as a separate word Acrostic - CORRECT ANSWER-verse in which cer...

UIL Literary Criticism Study Guide Exam 2024 accismus - CORRECT ANSWER-a form of irony in which a person feigns indifference to or pretends to refusesomething he or she desires acronym - CORRECT ANSWER-a word formed from the initial letters of words and pronounced as a separate word acrostic - CORRECT ANSWER-verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message Agrarians - CORRECT ANSWER-person who favors an agricultural way of life and government poli...

UIL Literary Criticism UIL Exam Final Questions and Answers 2024 Adventure Stories - CORRECT ANSWER-a story based around action, not character development, motive, or theme development. Alternative History - CORRECT ANSWER-a story based loosely off of a major historical event, often changing the outcome or facts of the event. Archetype - CORRECT ANSWER-An image, character, or event recurrent in literature that suggests a mythological pattern of experience or universal meaning. Charac...

UIL literary criticism terms for middle school Exam 2024 Q&A plot - CORRECT ANSWER-What happens in a story. onomatopoeia - CORRECT ANSWER-words that describe what they sound like. conflict (external and internal) - CORRECT ANSWER-An external conflict is against opposing forces or characters, and internal happens in the mind. foreshadowing - CORRECT ANSWER-The use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the story.

UIL LITERARY CRITICISM EXAM TEST (QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS)2024/2025 According to the essay "Ancient Athenian Drama," before the invention of tragedy there were contests in which rhapsodes recited parts of what works of literature? - CORRECT ANSWER-Homer's Iliad and Odyssey What did Aeschylus supposedly call his own work? - CORRECT ANSWER-"Slices from the feast of Homer" What does the essay say about the entrances and exits of characters in Greek drama? - CORRECT ANSWER-To...

UIL LITERARY CRITICISM EXAM SET 2024/2025 George Orwell - CORRECT ANSWER-1984 Arthur C. Clarke - CORRECT ANSWER-2001: A Space Odyssey John Updike - CORRECT ANSWER-A&P William Faulkner - CORRECT ANSWER-Absalom, Absalom! Irene Hunt - CORRECT ANSWER-Across Five Aprils George Eliot - CORRECT ANSWER-Adam Bede Mark Twain - CORRECT ANSWER-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain - CORRECT ANSWER-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Virgil - CORRECT ANSWER-The Aeneid Aeschylus - CORRECT ANSWER-...

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. Th...

UIL LITERARY CRITICISM FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2024/2025 british: celtic and roman britain - CORRECT ANSWER-? B.C. to 428 A.D. british: old english (anglo-saxon) period - CORRECT ANSWER-428 to 1100 british: anglo-norman period - CORRECT ANSWER-1100 to 1350 british: middle english period - CORRECT ANSWER-1350 to 1500