From The Curiosity-Shop of Literature Quiz

Answer: abstract poetry

The author of these verse was Roy Campbell. Born in South-Africa in 1901 he was a fluent speaker of the Zulu-language. He attacked the Bloomsbury group in his Georgiad (1931), which made him into a bitter enemy of such literary stars as Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West.He died in 1957.
Concrete poetry is poetry in which typography creates special visual effects. One of the first to write such poetry was the French poet Appollinaire. In his "Calligrammes" the typography systematically creates a visual representation of what his poem describes in words.

Answer: alliteration

Chiasmus: this is a device related to antithesis. You oppose two things,
but you order them 'crosswise': AB vs BA.
E.g. By the day the frolic, and the dance by night (from Samuel Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes.)
Assonance refers to repetition of vowels and diphthongs. Alliteration refers to repetition of consonants. Anastrophe is the inversion of the normal order for a special effect.

Answer: chiasmus

A carmen figuratum (e.g. "The Altar" by George Herbert ) is a poem in which the typography suggests a certain figure.
An epistrophe: when each sentence or clause ends with the same word.
Chiasmus : see Q. 3.

Answer: closet drama

Closet meaning room here. Something for reading in your study-room.

Answer: Hurry On Down by John Wain

In John Wain's book a university student comes home after having had his academic education, but discovers there is no employment for him and he realises he has no place any longer in his old familiar world.
Campus novels deal with life on a university campus. Often they are caricatures of "academic life" or show the hidden tensions and power struggle among top level academics.

Answer: Samuel Butler

Huxley called his dystopia "Brave New World" which is a quote from a Shakespeare play. George Orwell inverted the last two figures of the year in which he wrote his story about Big Brother and called his novel "1984".Ray Bradbury chose the title "Fahrenheit 451" because of the temperature at which paper burns.Samuel Butler re-arranged the letters of
"No-where" (which is English for Greek "ou-topia")into Erewhon.

Answer: The Ginger Man John Donleavy

Wain's hero is called Charles Lumley. Yossarian of course belongs to "Catch 22". And nobody will have forgotten Kingsley Amis' Jim Dixon.

Answer: From the name of a Soviet Government Department: the Department of Agitation and Propaganda

This Department was created in 1920 as part of the Central Committee Secretariat of the Soviet Communist Party.
Art too had to be a tool in the "revolution".
The role of artists and authors had to be pedagogic and didactic rather than anything else.

Answer: alexandrine

The alexandrine is what authors such as Racine and Corneille liked to use in their plays. The term was taken from a poem from the end of twelfth century Le Roman d' Alexandre. It was also a favourite metric tool of the poet Ronsard.

Answer: Richelieu

Cardinal Richelieu lived from 1585 till 1642. He might be called France's Prime Minister under Louis XIII. Though a Cardinal he considered the role of the Church as subjected to that of the State. He believed in the divine right of Kings to rule a country. His enemies were a.o. the Huguenots. His aim was to get full control of the whole French state.
He gave France unity and a centralist power-structure. By the creation of his Academy, he wanted arts and letters to play a role in the "Eternal Glory of France".
Also in the world of language there had to be rules and unity. It was his view that this was a task for the best poets and writers as recognized by the French central authorities. He asked them to produce a "Dictionary" in which every linguistic dispute would be definitely settled.