TAPPS Literary Criticism UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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TAPPS Literary Criticism
TAPPS Literary Criticism UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Absolute - CORRECT ANSWER- a word free from limitations or qualifications ("best,"
"all," "unique," "perfect")
Accismus - CORRECT ANSWER- a form of irony in which a person feigns indifference to
or pretends to refusesomethi...
TAPPS Literary Criticism UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Absolute - CORRECT ANSWER- a word free from limitations or qualifications ("best,"
"all," "unique," "perfect")
Accismus - CORRECT ANSWER- a form of irony in which a person feigns indifference to
or pretends to refusesomething he or she desires
Acronym - CORRECT ANSWER- a word formed from the initial letters of words and
pronounced as a separate word
Acrostic - CORRECT ANSWER- verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line
form a word or message
Adage - CORRECT ANSWER- a familiar proverb or wise saying
Ad Hominem Argument - CORRECT ANSWER- an argument attacking an individual's
character rather than his or her position on an issue
Agroikos - CORRECT ANSWER- Rustic, straight-talking, unsophisticated, not anxious
about his image, unfazed by others' joking.
Allegory - CORRECT ANSWER- a literary work in which characters, objects, or actions
represent abstractions
Alliteration - CORRECT ANSWER- the repetition of initial sounds in successive or
neighboring words
Allusion - CORRECT ANSWER- a reference to something literary, mythological, or
historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize
Alterity - CORRECT ANSWER- the state of being other or different; otherness
,Ambiguity - CORRECT ANSWER- An event or situation that may be interpreted in more
than one way.
Analogy - CORRECT ANSWER- a comparison between different things that are similar in
some way
Anaphora - CORRECT ANSWER- A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word
or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or
sentences.
Anecdote - CORRECT ANSWER- a brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or
event
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
Anthology - CORRECT ANSWER- A collection of various writings, such as songs, stories,
or poems
Antithesis - CORRECT ANSWER- a statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced
Aphorism - CORRECT ANSWER- a concise statement that expresses succinctly a general
truth or idea, often using rhyme or balance
Apostrophe - CORRECT ANSWER- a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an
absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction
Archetype - CORRECT ANSWER- a detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently
in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to
evoke a response
Argument - CORRECT ANSWER- a statement of the meaning or main point of a literary
work
, Asyndeton - CORRECT ANSWER- a constructions in which elements are presented in a
series without conjunctions
Auditory - CORRECT ANSWER- Having to do with the sense of hearing
Augustan Age - CORRECT ANSWER- is a style of English literature produced during the
reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century,
ending in the 1740s with the deaths of Pope and Swift (1744 and 1745, respectively)
Balanced Sentence - CORRECT ANSWER- a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses
are set off against each other to emphasize a point
Ballad - CORRECT ANSWER- A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized
by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Baroque - CORRECT ANSWER- An artistic style of the seventeenth century characterized
by complex forms, bold ornamentation, and contrasting elements
Bathos - CORRECT ANSWER- insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech
intended to evoke pity
Beat Generation - CORRECT ANSWER- Group highlighted by writers and artist who
stressed spontaneity and spirituality instead of apathy and conformity.
Biblical Allusion - CORRECT ANSWER- reference from the Bible, ex: eyes like heaven, the
crowd parted like the red sea.
Bildungsroman - CORRECT ANSWER- A German word referring to a novel structured as a
series of events that take place as the hero travels in quest of a goal
Blood and Thunder - CORRECT ANSWER- 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."
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