The term for the author of a play, which incorporates an antique word meaning "one who crafts." (SPELL IT!)
What is a playwright?
100
The time of Shakespeare is the Renaissance in Italy, but it England it is more properly called this.
What is the Elizabethan Age?
100
This fixed-form verse falls under the category of the lyric; it is one of the most popular and common forms in literature.
What is the sonnet?
100
This school of criticism views literature in terms of economics and class struggle.
What is Marxist criticism?
200
Unrhymed iambic pentameter, this is Shakespeare's preference.
What is blank verse?
200
This Greek term describes the moment of the tragic hero's realization of his fall.
What is "anagnorisis"?
200
Beginning and ending earlier in England than in the U.S., for Americans, it overlaps with Realism.
What is Romanticism or the Romantic Age?
200
This term describes a narrator who is recounting a story from his/her past, having had time to reflect upon the events.
What is first-person detached?
200
The school of criticism, which T.S. Eliot championed, focuses on a close reading of a text without regard for the social milieu in which it was written not with the biography of the author.
What is New Criticism?
300
If the lines of a poem vary widely in length, and if the poem was written after approximately 1863, it may likely be an example of this.
What is free verse?
300
This supporting character illuminates the main character by contrasting with him/her.
What is a foil?
300
This extreme form of Realism drew on the ideas of social Darwinism.
What is Naturalism?
300
The formal definition of this terms is "an identifying phrase that stands in the place of a noun"; it can also be a label attached to a person's name.
What is an epithet?
300
The view of literature in terms of what it reveals about the lives, struggles, and consciousness of women goes by this name.
What is feminist criticism.
400
This type of poem, a long lyric, serious in tone, is usually written as a tribute showing respect or admiration.
What is an ode?
400
This word describes the "new normal" at the end of a play.
What is the denouement?
400
Confessional poetry and Existentialism both fall within this period.
What is Post-Modernism?
400
"As he swung toward them holding up the hand/
Half in appeal, but half as if to keep/
The blood from spilling...."
What is metonymy?
400
Though this school of criticism began with Carl Jung's theory, Northrup Frye is the critic who explored its application to literature.
What is archetypal criticism?
500
This describes a poetic sentence that runs from one line into the next.
What is
enjambment.
500
This Greek term describes the ancient goal of tragedy.
What is catharsis?
500
It is the literary period that corresponds with the Enlightenment.
What is the Augustan Age?
500
The intentional drop from an elevated tone to a coarse, low tone through language.
What is bathos?
500
This school of criticism, born in the 20th c., explores the unconscious motives and desires of the characters, as well as those of the author.