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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



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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

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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



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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