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Praxis II Authors/Works b
Authors/Works
Question: This is the name given to western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theater, music and architecture. (From Ancient Greece or Rome)
Answer: Neoclassicism/Age of Enlightenment/competing with Romanticism
Question: Sam Beckett/Waiting For Godof, Albert Camus, Nikoloi Gogol, Franz Kafka/The Metamorphosis/The Trial/the Castle, Jean paul Sartre, Joseph Heller's/Catch 22,
Answer: Absurdist Authors
Question: These anonymous narrative poems is a four-line stanza of alternating tetrameter/trimeter w/a rhyme of abab or abcb (Child Maurice).
Answer: Ballad Stanza
Question: This manuel provides information about writing and formatting for a variety of purposes/such as incorporating informational interviews into an essay.
Answer: Style Manuel
Question: Style and author of The Waste Lands
Answer: TS Elliot/Imagery
Authors/Works
Question: This type of fiction was cast in first person; whereas before, earlier literature had a clear beginning/middle end.
Answer: Modernist Fiction
Question: Mary Shelly/Frankenstein, Horace Walpole/the Castle of Otranto
Answer: Gothic Fiction
Question: Author of The Secret Life of Bees
Answer: Sue Monk Kidd
Question: Beowulf/The Seafarer/The Wanderer were originally written in what language?
Answer: Old English
Question: Name the author whose work uses alliteration/personification/imagery/similies
Answer: Alfred Tennyson's The Eagle
Authors/Works
Question: Who wrote Paradise Lost and what is it know for?
Answer: John Milton/use of enjambment and causes
Question: This conventional Renaissance/Petrarchan sonnet glorified what type of women?
Answer: A fair-skinned woman w/red lips, sparkling eyes/whole breasts/golden hair.
Question: Author of Gone With the Wind/Before Scarlett
Answer: Margarett Mitchell
Question: Author of Manzanar
Answer: Jeanne Wakatsuki
Question: In Henry Longfellow's O Ship of State, what kind of figurative language is used?
Answer: Metaphor
Authors/Works
Question: Samuel Beckett, TS Elliot, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, EE Cummings, Sylvia Plath, F Scott Fitzgerald, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf are examples of what type of author?
Answer: Famous Modernist Authors
Question: The elevated style of this type of epic/invocation/formal diction/extended similies/lengthy descriptions of battles/supernatural interventions to treat trivial subjects.
Answer: Mock Epics
Question: Author of Mama Makes Up Her Mind/Sleeping at the Starlite Motel/Quite a Year For Plums
Answer: Bailey White
Question: Author of The Rape of the Lock
Answer: Alexander Pope
Question: Author of Come Down O Maid/figurative language used
Answer: Alfred Tennyson's/Onomatopoeia
Authors/Works
Question: This genre of narrative fiction is used most often in novels, plays, poems, and films. It focuses on the experiences of characters in a situation where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life. Satire/dark humor
Answer: Absurdist Fiction
Question: The lines of a what type of monologue are spoken by the character whose personality/motives/circumstances shape the way he/she tells the story/and can infer from the story told.
Answer: Dramatic Monologue
Question: This dictionary not only gives the current, common meaning of a word, but also a history of the different ways a word has been used since its recorded entry into the language.
Answer: The Oxford English Dictionary
Question: Style and author of Caliban Upon Setebos
Answer: Dramatic Monologue/Robert Browning
Question: Author of The Tiger
Answer: William Blake