Authors/ Literary Movements
What literary movement attempted to portray life truthfully and accurately?
What is realism?
In The Raven, the speaker mourns the loss of this woman.
Who is Lenore?
A comparison between two unlike things is called this.
What is a metaphor?
Frederick Douglass called this “the pathway from slavery to freedom.”
What is learning to read, or literacy?
A character who changes throughout a story is called this type of character.
What is a dynamic character?
This author of Walden recommended that people “simplify.”
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck escapes Pap by using the blood of this animal.
What is a pig?
“Your eyes have their silence” is an example of this figurative device blending senses together.
What is synesthesia?
“Editha” takes place during this war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things is called this.
What is personification?
This literary movement emphasized fate, survival, and forces beyond human control.
What is naturalism?
In “Désirée’s Baby,” this issue is heavily criticized in Southern society.
What is racism, or the one-drop rule?
A brief phrase combining contradictory terms for effect is called this.
What is an oxymoron?
These songs helped slaves endure labor and sometimes communicate escape plans.
What are Negro spirituals?
A story’s events violating normal expectations is called this kind of irony.
What is situational irony?
This American poet helped encourage freedom in poetic style and content through works like Leaves of Grass.
Who is Walt Whitman?
The walls in “Bartleby, the Scrivener” symbolize this condition of mankind.
What is isolation?
A Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains and this final section.
What is a couplet?
This president was known for a simple, clear, and emotionally powerful writing style.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener during an important moment is called this.
What is a dramatic monologue?
The Civil War largely discouraged this earlier literary movement.
What is romanticism?
The central conflict in “A White Heron” is between Sylvia and this character.
Who is the ornithologist (or hunter)?
Unrhymed iambic pentameter is known as this poetic form.
What is blank verse?
This writer and abolitionist advocated strongly for both women’s and Black civil rights.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The belief that the universe is chaotic and man’s survival is accidental is called this naturalistic idea.
What is cosmic chill?