University Interscholastic League Literary Criticism Contest • Invitational A • 2013 Part 1: Knowledge of Literary Terms and of Literary History 30 items (1 point each) 1. The form of extended metaphor in which objects, per- 6. Not among the common two-syllable or three- sons, places, and actions in a narrative are equated syllable units of rhythm in English-language with meanings outside the narrative itself is a (n) prosody is the A) allegory. A) anapest. B) allusion. B) bacchius. C) almanac. C) dactyl. D) paradox. D) iamb. E) parody. E) trochee. 2. The term that, in drama, refers to a recounting of a 7. The playwright and novelist whose Our Town causally related series of events in the life of a per- (1928) and Bridge of San Luis Rey (1938) earned son of significance, culminating in a catastrophe is him Pultizers for both drama and fiction is A) burlesque. A) Horton Foote. B) comedy. B) Neil Simon. C) pastoral. C) Thornton Wilder. D) tragedy. D) Herman Wouk. E) verisimilitude. E) Doug Wright. 3. A comic book or graphic novel, originally Japanese, 8. The time in English literature between the per- that, since the early 1950s, presents in book form a iod during which French as the language of story of a fantasy, science fiction, or romance repre- English court life and the appearance of sents the style known as Modern English writings is known as the A) anime. A) Anglo-Saxon Period. B) bunraku. B) Jacobean Age. C) kabuki. C) Middle English Period. D) manga. D) Old English Period. E) senryu. E) Renaissance. 4. The recipient of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 9. The nineteenth-century American author of for her novel The Color Purple whose recent com- Omoo, Typee, Mardi, Redburn: His First ments regarding the Occupy Movement reflect her Voyage, White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man- hope for the future is of-War, and "Bartleby the Scrivener" is A) Geraldine Brooks. A) Herman Melville. B) Alison Lurie. B) Edgar Allan Poe. C) Toni Morrison. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Carol Shields. D) Mark Twain. E) Alice Walker. E) Walt Whitman. 5. The term used by E. M. Forster for a character suf- 10. The presentation of material in a work in such a ficiently complex to be able to surprise the reader way, including the establishing of a mood or without losing credibility is a atmosphere, that later events are prepared for is A) braggadocio. A) flashback. B) flat character. B) foreshadowing. C) round character. C) in medias res. D) static character. D) reductio ad absurdum. E) tritagonist. E) scenario. UNIVERSITY INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE PAGE 1 Literary Criticism Contest • Invitational A 2013 • page 2 11. A New York literary crowd flourishing during the 16. A stanza of four lines, with the first and third first half of the nineteenth century whose principle being iambic tetrameter (eight syllables) and members included Washington Irving, William the second and fourth iambic trimeter (six syl- Cullen Bryant, and James Fenimore Cooper, is the lables), rhymed abab or abcb is called A) Agrarians. A) antistrophe. B) Black Mountain School. B) common measure. C) Knickerbocker Group. C) heroic stanza. D) Lost Generation. D) long meter. E) Muckrakers. E) poulter's measure. 12. The time period of English literature that encom- 17. Not one of the elements of Freytag's structure passes both World Wars is called the of the five-act tragedy is the A) Early Victorian Age. A) catastrophe. B) Edwardian Age. B) climax. C) Late Victorian Age. C) complication. D) Modern or Modernist Period. D) exposition. E) Present Postmodernist or Contemporary Period. E) volta. 13. The American author of Beloved and recipient of 18. A novel in which actual persons are presented the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature is under the guise of fiction is known as a A) Pearl S. Buck. A) roman à clef. B) Nadine Gordimer. B) roman à thèse. C) Doris Lessing. C) roman de geste. D) Toni Morrison. D) roman-fleuve. E) Nelly Sachs. E) roman noir. 14. A pause or break in a line of verse, which in classi- 19. The American pediatrician and general practi- cal poetry usually occurs near the middle of a line, tioner who received the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for is the Poetry for his Pictures from Brueghel is A) cadence. A) John Berryman. B) caesura. B) Robert Haas. C) chiasmus. C) Howard Nemerov. D) elision. D) Henry Taylor. E) enjambment. E) William Carlos Williams. 15. The philosophical romanticism reaching America a 20. The group of American poets and novelists of generation or two after it developed in Europe in the 1950s and 1960s, including Allen Ginsberg, which living close to nature and recognizing the Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs, who, in dignity of manual labor are matched by the search rebellion against the prevailing culture, ex- for intellectual companionship and a move toward pressed their revolt through literary works of spiritual living is called loose structure and slang diction is known as the A) existentialism. A) Beat Generation. B) feminism. B) Connecticut Wits. C) realism. C) Harlem Renaissance. D) transcendentalism. D) Spasmodics. E) vorticism. E) Young Men from the Provinces. UNIVERSITY INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE PAGE 2 Literary Criticism Contest • Invitational A 2013 • page 3 21. The device of repetition in which the same expres- 26. A false name sometimes assumed by writers and sion (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of others, often to disguise his or her true identity two or more lines or clauses is is a (n) A) anaphora. A) allonym. B) epanalepsis. B) ananym. C) epistrophe. C) eponym. D) polyptoton. D) heteronym. E) symploce. E) pseudonym. 22. An eighteenth-century philosophical movement that 27. The movement in literary, graphic, and cinema- gave shape to the American Revolution and the two tic art emphasizing the expression of the imagi- basic documents of the United States, the Declara- nation as realized in dreams and presented with- tion of Independence and the Constitution, is the out conscious control is A) Commonwealth (or Puritan) Interregnum. A) aestheticism. B) Enlightenment. B) cubism. C) Great Awakening. C) impressionism. D) Renaissance. D) minimalism. E) Romantic Movement. E) surrealism. 23. The recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama 28. The period in American literary history ending for his Death of a Salesman, the playwright whose with the ascendancy of Jacksonian democracy Crucible serves as a comment on the 1950s' Con- and during which the first American novel, gressional House Un-American Activities Commit- William Hill Brown's Power of Sympathy, was tee, is published is the A) William Inge. A) Colonial Period. B) David Mamet. B) Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period. C) Arthur Miller. C) Realistic Period. D) Eugene O'Neill. D) Revolutionary and Early National Period. E) Tennessee Williams. E) Romantic Period. 24. The eighteenth-century Irish author of A Tale of the 29. Not representative of the Romantic Period in Tub, Gulliver's Travels, and "A Modest Proposal" is English literature is A) Daniel Defoe. A) George Gordon, Lord Byron. B) Henry Fielding. B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. C) Laurence Sterne. C) John Milton. D) Jonathan Swift. D) Percy Bysshe Shelley. E) Horace Walpole. E) William Wordsworth. 25. Long prose fiction that, in explaining the why of the 30. The derogatory title applied by Blackwood's Mag- characters' actions, places unusual emphasis on in- azine to a group of nineteenth-century British wri- terior characterization and on the motives, circum- ters, including William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, and stances, and internal action that spring from and de- John Keats, because of their alleged poor taste in velop external action is called a (n) such matters as diction and rhyme is the A) epistolary novel. A) Cockney School. B) novel of character. B) Lake School. C) novel of incident. C) Martian School. D) novel of manners. D) Satanic School. E) psychological novel. E) Spasmodics. UNIVERSITY INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE PAGE 3 Literary Criticism Contest • Invitational A 2013 • page 4 Part 2: The UIL Reading List 20 items (2 points each) Items 31-37 are associated with Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Items 38-44 are associated with Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Items 45-50 are associated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry (selected). 31. In Oscar Wilde's trivial comedy for serious people, 36. In a conversation that notes that sensible men The Importance of Being Earnest, the character who would really like to be caught in the snare de- is recognized as having "been for the last three years fined by a woman's good looks, the declaration Miss Cardew's esteemed governess and valued com- "I don't think I would care to catch a sensible panion" is man" is offered by A) Lady Bracknell. A) Augusta. B) Miss Fairfax. B) Cecily. C) Miss Lane. C) Gwendolen. D) Miss Prism. D) Merriman. E) Miss Worthing. E) Oscar. 32. Commenting to herself in anticipation of meeting 37. Lady Bracknell's reply regarding Miss Cardew's Ernest for the first time that she has "never really family's standing in society, "That sounds not met any really wicked person before" is unsatisfactory," is an example of A) Lady Bracknell. A) ambiguity. B) Miss Cardew. B) equivoque. C) Miss Fairfax. C) hyperbole. D) Miss Prism. D) litotes. E) Miss Worthing. E) paradox. 33. Very important to the plotline of Wilde's play is 38. John Singer of Carson McCullers's The Heart Is Miss Prism's recognition of her initials on a a Lonely Hunter earns a living as a (n) A) hand-bag. A) confectioner. B) handkerchief.