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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

UIL Literary Criticism Final Test 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 certain letters such as t...

UIL Literary Criticism Poetry Exam Q&A 2024 Sara Teasdale () - CORRECT ANSWER-Love Songs- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1918 Other works: Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems (1907) Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911) Rivers to the Sea (1915) She committed suicide in 1933 Margaret Widdemer () - CORRECT ANSWER-Old Road to Paradise- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1919 Other Works: The Factories with Other Lyrics (1915) The Dark Cavalier (1958) Carl Sandburg () - CORRECT ANSWER-Sandburg won thr...

UIL literary criticism Practice Exam Q&A 2024 Theme - CORRECT ANSWER-Central idea of a work of literature (nonfiction) The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work (fiction) Volta - CORRECT ANSWER-Italian word for "turn." In a sonnet, the volta is the turn of thought or argument Thesis - CORRECT ANSWER-The sentence that introduces the main argument or point of view of a composition (formal essay, nonfiction piece, or narrati...

UIL Literary Criticism History Exam Questions and Answers 2024 Abbey Theatre - CORRECT ANSWER-Associated with the Irish Literary Revival, an outgrowth of the Irish Literary Theatre and the Irish Theatre Society. The theatre burned in 1951. W.B. Yeats was the director of the theatre until his death in 1939. ABC-Book - CORRECT ANSWER-Abcee-Book, Absey-Book -- a primer or horn-book that introduces a subject sometimes in the form of catechism or dialogue American Academy of Arts and Letter...

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. - ...