Literary Elements
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Equalizers
100
This movement rejected realism and focused on portraying subjective realities.
What is Modernism?
100
Comparison that uses the words like or as.
What is simile?
100
A comical yet mocking way of storytelling that grew from the postmodern movement. Examples include Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Scary Movie and Gnomeo and Juliet. 
What is a parody?
100
The Simpsons best represents the characteristics of this movement./Simpsons_2015DOHnut_hires2-56706b713df78ccc15cdd12f.jpg)
What is postmodernism?
100
The largest organ of the human body.
What is skin?
200
This movement created narratives which reflected the expanding world and all its diverse perspectives.
What is Post Modernism?
200
A poetic device that creates sound through repetition.
What is alliteration?
200
The term for an educated guess based on your background knowledge as a reader plus what the text implies.
What is inference?
200
The Twilight Saga best represents the characteristics of this literary movement.
What is modernism?
200
Before embarking on a solo career, Beyoncé was a part of this R&B group.
What is Destiny's Child?
300
This quote from the text most likely explains why modernism emerged.
A. “With the Second Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s, daily life became more fast-paced, mechanized, and urban.”
B. “After World War I (1914–1918), traditional class structures began to break down in Europe and the United States.”
C. “It was a time of science and progress, rational thought and psychology.”
D. All of the above.
What is D?
300
"The skin on her face was as thin and drawn as tight as the skin of onion and her eyes were gray and sharp like the points of two picks." is this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
300
The following excerpt represents this 3-word term for the mimicking natural human patterns of thought that was popularized by writers of the modernist period.
I grow old ... I grow old ...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
what is stream of consciousness?
300
The artist whose work is depicted created paintings that symbolized the fragmentation and interiority of the modernist movement.
Who is Picasso?
300
The First Disney Princess.
Who is Snow White?
400
The answer that best explains why many modernist authors and artists rejected realism in their work.
A. They felt that realism was boring and wanted to be more creative.
B. Rejecting realism was a form of protest after World War I.
C. They wanted their work to reflect the new sense of instability in the world.
D. They believed realism was for the elite and wanted to create new art for the people.
What is C?
400
“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief…”
is an example of (a. simile b. extended metaphor c. allusion)
What is a B. Extended metaphor?
400
Words and phrases such as "cut a rug", "a gas" and "buzz" represent this which was popularized by postmodernist writers.
What is every day language?
400
Mockumentaries such as The Office, Modern Family and Abbott Elementary are all influenced by .
What is postmodernism?
400
This classic story features the ghosts of Christmas past, present, future and an old friend by the name of Jacob Marley.
A Christmas Carol
500
This statement about modernist and postmodernist literature’s similarities is best supported by the text.
A. Both movements focus on the reader’s experience reading the text.
B. Modernism and postmodernism rely on coherent meaning and a linear narrative.
C. The two movements are characterized by an unreliable narrator.
D. Each movement expresses the complexity and changes of their time.
What is D?
500
This figure of speech makes a comparison by referencing something well known in art, literature, history or culture.
What is an allusion?
500
Better known for his talking raven and beating heart under the floorboards, this dark writer is considered a forerunner of the modernist movement.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
500
This literary device portrayed below is often used by postmodernists to demonstrate the absurdity between expectations and reality. 
What is irony?
500
The number of legs a crab has.
What is 10?