University Interscholastic League Literary Criticism Contest • Sample Test • Fall 2012

Part 1: Knowledge of Literary Terms and of Literary History 30 items (1 point each)

1. The revival of emotional religion during the first 6. Not associated with the collecting of or the half of the eighteenth century in America is called writing of the fairy tale is (are)

A) Fin de Siècle. A) Hans Christian Andersen. B) the Great Awakening. B) the Brothers Grimm. C) the Harlem Renaissance. C) Nathaniel Hawthorne. D) Transcendentalism. D) Rudyard Kipling. E) Ultima thule. E) Oscar Wilde.

2. The repetition of initial consonant sounds or any 7. The figure of speech that may be used to vowel sounds in successive or closely associated heighten effect, including for humorous effect, syllables is recognized as through exaggeration, is

A) alliteration. A) gigantism. B) assonance. B) hyperbole. C) consonance. C) litotes. D) resonance. D) meiosis. E) sigmatism. E) understatement.

3. The common English triple-syllable consist- 8. An analogy identifying one object with another ing of one accented syllable followed by two un- and ascribing to the first object one or more of accented syllables is the the qualities of the second is a

A) anapest. A) conceit. B) antibacchius. B) metaphor. C) . C) metonymy. D) . D) simile. E) . E) synecdoche.

4. Not likely to sit down at the local pub or tavern 9. Originally, the term for the first actor in early to share a drink and conversation with the others Greek drama and now the term for the chief listed below is character in a work is

A) Geoffrey Chaucer. A) antagonist. B) Ben Jonson. B) anti-hero. C) Thomas Kyd. C) deuteragonist. D) Christopher Marlowe. D) hero. E) William Shakespeare. E) protagonist.

5. The first major, self-conscious literary movement 10. The playwright and recipient of a Presidential of African American writers that resulted in part Medal of Freedom who received the Pulitzer from a mass migration of young talented writers to Prize for Drama in 1948 for A Streetcar Named northern American cities is known as the Desire and in 1955 for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is

A) Black Mountain School. A) Arthur Miller. B) Fugitives. B) Eugene O'Neill. C) Harlem Renaissance. C) Robert Sherwood. D) New York Poets. D) Thornton Wilder. E) Parnassians. E) Tennessee Williams.

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Part 2: The UIL Reading List 20 items (2 points each)

Items 11-12 are associated with Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Items 13-14 are associated with Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Items 15-16 are associated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry (selected).

11. In Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest 16. The very recognizable image from Coleridge's Algie's suspicions concerning Jack's activities are "Rime" "As idle as a painted ship / Upon a aroused by painted ocean" is an example of an effective

A) a telegram from Paris. A) metaphor. B) a train ticket for the Brighton Line. B) simile. C) an embroidered handkerchief. C) tautology. D) an inscription on a cigarette case. D) volta. E) the disappearance of cucumber sandwiches. E) zeugma.

12. Lady Bracknell declares that a "man should always Part 3: Ability in Literary Criticism have an occupation of some kind"; Jack's 15 items (2 points each) occupation is Items 17-19 refer to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's A) acting. The Exchange B) banking. C) smoking. We pledged our hearts, my love and I,— D) traveling. I in my arms the maiden clasping; E) writing. I could not tell the reason why, But, O, I trembled like an aspen. 4

13. Carson McCullers's characters represent a range of Her father's love she bade me gain;

ages, interests, and occupations in a (n) I went, and shook like any reed!

A) Eastern seaboard resort. I strove to act the man—in vain! We had exchanged our hearts indeed. 8 B) Northern state capital. C) seaport village. 17. The rhyme scheme of STCs "The Exchange" is D) small Northern fishing town. A) abab, cdcd. E) small Southern mill town. B) abac, dede.

14. Mick, realizing that her family cannot afford to buy one, attempts to make her own 18. The metrical pattern of Coleridge's poem is

A) graduation dress. A) iambic pentameter. B) hatbox. B) iambic tetrameter. C) set of earrings. C) iambic trimeter. D) set of roller skates. D) spondaic tetrameter. E) violin. E) trochaic tetrameter.

15. These lines from Coleridge's conversational poem 19. The title of Coleridge's poem points to the meta- "Frost at Midnight," "But thou my babe! shalt wan- lepsis, the transumption, upon which the clever- der like the breeze / By lakes and sandy shores, be- ness of the poem depends. The persona's realiza- neath the clouds, / Which image in their bulk both tion is that he, in the presence of his love's father, lakes and shores / And mountain crags" exhibit has lost his manly

A) assonance. A) cardiograph. B) consonance. B) confidence C) end rhyme. C) courage. D) epistrophe. D) prerogative. E) sigmatism. E) poetic license.