Uil Literary Criticism Terms, Literary Criticism Uil Study Guide Questions And Correct Answers

Tragedy {Ans: a work in which the protagonist, a person of high degree, is engaged in a significant struggle and which ends in ruin or destruction}Diction {Ans: the word choices made by a writer}Homily {Ans: a sermon, or a moralistic lecture}Blood and Thunder {Ans: A class of work specializing in bloodshed and violence. Many of these have to do with crime and high emotion. Sometimes abbr. to "blood," "blood books," or "penny bloods."}Silver-Fork School {Ans: Group of 19th century English novelists who emphasized gentility and etiquette. Members included Frances Trollope, Theodore Hook, Lady Blessington, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Benjamin Disraeli.}Ballad {Ans: A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.}