Literary Criticism UIL Exam Study Guide 2024

Literary Criticism UIL Exam Study Guide 2024 antagonist - CORRECT ANSWER-the character directly opposed to the chief character of a literary work the Great Awakening - CORRECT ANSWER-the revival of emotional religion during the first half of the eighteenth century in America Harlem Renaissane - CORRECT ANSWER-originated in the New York City area immediately after the First World War, the first major, self-conscious literary movement of African American writers is known as theme - CORRECT ANSWER-a central idea that in nonfiction prose is recognized as the general topic and in fiction, poetry, and drama is considered the abstract concept made concrete through representation Renaissance Period - CORRECT ANSWER-Caroline Age, Commonwealth Interregnum, Elizabethan Age, Jacobean Age metaphor - CORRECT ANSWER-an analogy identifying once object with another and ascribing to the first object one or more of the qualities of the second Anglo-Norman Period - CORRECT ANSWER-the period in English literature between 1100 and 1350, which is also often called the Early Middle English Period and is frequently dated from the Conquest in 1066 ode - CORRECT ANSWER-the type of lyric poem that is characterized by it single, unified strain of exalted feeling and style, by its single purpose, and by its dealing with one theme the Muckrak