Pulitzer Prize Fiction
"The Optimist's Daughter" won in 1973
Who is Eudora Welty?
Writing or discourse characterized by bitter incentive or abusive argument.
What is "Diatribe"?
Won by Robert Lowell in 1974
What is "The Dolphin"?
Alice Walker won in 1983
What is "The Color Purple"?
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"?
These collected poems won in 1982
Who is Sylvia Plath?
Toni Morrison winning in 1988
What is "Beloved"?
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
Written by Mary Oliver and won in 1984
What is "American Primitive"?
"To Kill a Mockingbird" in 1961
Who is Harper Lee?
A movement in Germany during the last quarter of the eighteenth century.
What is "Sturm and Drang" (or Storm and Stress)?
These "New and Collected Poems" written by Richard Wilbur...
What is 1989?
John Updike in 1991 and 1982
What is "Rabbit at rest" and "Rabbit is Rich"?
A trope in which a part signifies a whole or the whole signifies the part.
What is "Synecdoche"?
Written by Robert Frost and won in 1937
What is "A Further Range"?