Pulitzer Prize Fiction
Key Vocabulary
Pulitzer prizes Poetry
100

"The Optimist's Daughter" won in 1973

Who is Eudora Welty?

100

Writing or discourse characterized by bitter incentive or abusive argument.

What is "Diatribe"?

100

Won by Robert Lowell in 1974

What is "The Dolphin"?

200

Alice Walker won in 1983

What is "The Color Purple"?

200

One of the devices of repetition, in which the same words is repeated. Ex. "As I ebb'd with the ocean of life, As I wended the shores I know"

What is "Anaphora"?

200

These collected poems won in 1982

Who is Sylvia Plath?

300

Toni Morrison winning in 1988

What is "Beloved"?

300

A pattern in which the second part is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed. Ex. "Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike"

What is Chiasmus

300

Written by Mary Oliver and won in 1984

What is "American Primitive"?

400

"To Kill a Mockingbird" in 1961

Who is Harper Lee?

400

A movement in Germany during the last quarter of the eighteenth century.

What is "Sturm and Drang" (or Storm and Stress)?

400

These "New and Collected Poems" written by Richard Wilbur...

What is 1989?

500

John Updike in 1991 and 1982

What is "Rabbit at rest" and "Rabbit is Rich"?

500

A trope in which a part signifies a whole or the whole signifies the part.

What is "Synecdoche"?

500

Written by Robert Frost and won in 1937

What is "A Further Range"?

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