Favored the introduction of heavy Latin and Greek words into the standard English vocabulary. In opposition to the Purists in a struggle referred to as the "purist-improver" controversy.
Who are the Inkhornists?
100
A poetic genre that is short and possess marked descriptive, narrative, and pastoral qualities, with the point of view of a civilized and artificial society glancing from a drawing room window over green meadows, or of the weekend farm viewed through a picture window.
What is an Idyll?
100
The chief character in a work, originally the "first" actor in Greek drama.
Who is the protagonist?
100
A brief reference to an historical or literary figure, event or object.
What is an allusion?
100
A novel carried forth by letters written by one or more characters. Samuel Richardson's Pamela is considered to be the first.
What is an epistolary novel?
200
Byron, Shelley, and Hunt whose irregular lives and radical ideas defiantly flaunted in their writings caused the, to be contrasted with the "pious" group of the Lake School.
What is the Satanic School?
200
A Japanese poem that states in three lines of five, seven and five syllables, but relies on humor or satire rather than spiritual insight.
What is a Senryu
200
A character that is sufficiently complex to be able to surprise the reader without losing credibility according to E. M. Forster.
Who is a Round Character?
200
Figure of speech in which someone (usually but not always absent), some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present.
What is an apostrophe?
200
A type of novel marked by strong Intrest in action, with episodes often based on love, adventure and combat.
What is a romantic novel?
300
A derisive name given to a group of novelists who emphasized gentility and etiquette. Included as members Frances Trollope, Theodore Hook, Lady Blessington, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Benjamin Disraeli.
What is the Silver Fork School?
300
Combines dance and poetry so that each complements the other in a highly dramatic way.
What is a Choreopoem?
300
A type of real person or literary character: the woman who inspires an artist.
Who is La Femme Inspiratrice?
300
A form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite.
What is a litote?
300
A novel in which actual persons are presented under the guise of fiction.
What is a roman a clef?
400
Writers who dealt idealistically with village life in Scotland. Members included J. M. Barrie and Ian Maclaren.
Who are the Kailyard School?
400
A sustained and formal poem setting forth meditations on death or another solemn theme.
What is an elegy?
400
A character from Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough, who does not actually appear but of whose judgement everyone in the play is very much afraid. It points to her symbolic value as a ridiculously strict upholder of social conventions.
Who is Mrs. Grundy?
400
A trope in which a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies the part.
What is a synecdoche?
400
A novel that deals with the development of a young person, usually from adolescence to maturity; frequently autobiographical.
What is a Bildungsroman?
500
British poets born in the 1940s who struggle to see the world afresh.
What is the Martian School?
500
A medieval dialogue poem in which a shepherdess is wooed by a man of higher social rank.
What is a pastourelle?
500
A basic comic character- a swindler or trickster who pretends to be ignorant to trick people?
Who is Eiron?
500
Starts with a neutral work and moves to an offensive one. Ex: from die to croak.
What is a dysphemism?
500
A thriller, a novel in a dark mode, involving crime, detection, punishment, and corruption in high places.