“Hot mashed potatoes and two weenies was like Thanksgiving for me.”
Who is Toni Morrison?
100
“Nothing seemed to destroy the boy’s look of admiration. He gazed at her now as if the fantastic animal at the zoo had put its paw through the bars and given him a loving poke.”
What is "Good Country People"?
100
Many works during this literary movement were the depiction of life how it is lived and would digress from the plot by indulging into the depths of its characters in order to capture the essence of real life in real time.
What is realism?
100
This literary style overlaps Realism in many ways. It refers to texts that concentrate heavily on specific, unique features of a certain area including dialect, customs, tradition, topography, history, and characters.
What is regionalism?
100
This postmodern author frequently uses religious allusions and parodies, dark humor, and absurd situations to make a point.
Who is Flannery O'Connor?
200
“But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.”
Who is Annie Dillard?
200
“For after our struggle at the piano, she never mentioned my playing again. The lessons stopped. The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams.”
What is "Two Kinds" from The Joy Luck Club?
200
An outgrowth of Realism that sought to identify the underlying causes for a person’s actions or beliefs. The thinking was that certain factors, such as heredity and social conditions, were unavoidable determinants in one’s life.
What is Naturalism?
200
The introduction of impossible or unrealistic events into a narrative that is otherwise realistic.
What is Magic Realism?
200
This author often writes about the process of managing the identities, languages, and stereotypes that occur from being a part of two or more cultures.
Who is Gloria Anzaldua?
300
“There’s the ocean to stop you. There’s a line of old men along the shore hating the ocean because it stopped them.”
Who is John Steinbeck?
300
“The daughter was leaning very far down, hanging her head almost between her knees and watching him through a triangular door she had made in her overturned hair; and she suddenly fell in a heap on the floor and began to whimper.”
What is "The Life You Save May Be Your Own."
300
This literary movement emphasized urbanity and reflected the joy of a people discovering the variety in themselves, yet their oneness.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
The taking of various ideas from previous writings and literary styles and pasting them together to make new styles.
What is Pastiche?
300
This author spent her whole writing career making sure that the white gaze was not the dominant gaze in any of her stories.
Who is Toni Morrison?
400
“I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives them new meanings.”
Who is Gloria Anzaldua?
400
“The world’s spiritual geniuses seem to discover universally that the mind’s muddy river, this ceaseless flow of trivia and trash, cannot be dammed, and that trying to dam it is a waste of effort that might lead to madness.”
What is "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"?
400
The philosophical perspective of this literary movement is pretty cynical and takes nothing that is presented at face value or as being legitimate.
What is Postmodernism?
400
The act of writing about writing or making readers aware of the fictional nature of the very fiction they're reading.
What is Metafiction?
400
This author was known for minimalism and discarded flowery descriptions and wordy metaphors, replacing them with simple, straight to the point, and down to earth words.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
500
“True genius can get an idea across even to an inferior mind."
Who is Flannery O'Connor?
500
“He buried it at the foot of a tree. He took a stick and tried to cover the pool of blood with dirt—but what was the use?”
What is "The Man Who was Almost a Man"?
500
Writers of this literary movement felt responsible to provide meaning for people who were disillusioned with the credibility of governmental and religious leaders.
What is Modernism?
500
The acknowledgment of previous literary works within another literary work.
What is Intertextuality?
500
This author sailed San Francisco Bay as an oyster pirate, went to Alaska to take part in the Klondike Gold Rush, and traveled the South Seas.