Literary Movements
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About the Authors
Who Wrote it?
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This literary movement observed that life did not necessarily follow the dramatic story arc and felt that, therefore, neither should the novel.
What is literary realism?
100
"All the while, in her duplex emotioning, she was aware that now at the very beginning she must put a guard upon herself against urging him, by any word or act, to take the part that her soul willed him to take, for the completion of her ideal of him."
What is "Editha"? by William Dean Howells
100
This author based his world famous poem, "The Heathen Chinee" on a story he heard from James Gillis of Tuolumne County.
Who is Bret Harte?
100
"Love, to you, is a word of four letters and a definition which you have extracted from the dictionary. But love, real love, dewy and palpitant and tender, you do not know."
Who is Jack London? From "The House of Pride"
100
The movie in which C. Thomas Howell recites Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
What is The Outsiders?
200
In this literary style, digression from plot is a technique of better representing the culture being described.
What is regionalism?
200
"He was a newcomer in the land, a chechaquo, and this was his first winter. The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances."
What is "To Build a Fire" by Jack London
200
This author once said, after returning from a trip to the Mediterranean and Holy Land, that he knew for a fact there would be no Second Coming, for if Jesus had been there once he certainly wouldn't go back.
Who is Mark Twain?
200
"The arms of the combatants whirled in the air like flails. The faces of the men, at first flushed to flame-colored anger, now began to fade to the pallor of warriors in the blood and heat of a battle. Their lips curled back and stretched tightly over the gums in ghoul-like grins. Through their white, gripped teeth struggled hoarse whispering of oaths. Their eyes glittered with murderous fire."
Who is Stephen Crane? from "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
200
Jack London, in "What Life Means to Me," calls this group of people "the foundation of the edifice."
What is the working class?
300
During this literary movement, some artists worried that writing about popular culture and politics would cheapen the art of writing and destroy long-held literary traditions.
What is modernism?
300
"I wouldn't say it was hell, because that's been a bit overworked since General Sherman's time, but there have been about 8 times when I would have welcomed Hell."
What is "Letter of August 18, 1918, to His Parents" by Ernest Hemingway
300
Although temperamentally gentle, this author was obsessed with war and other forms of physical and psychic violence. He frequently lived the down and out life of a penniless artist; he was also ambitious and something of a snob.
Who is Stephen Crane?
300
"It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited the wait was itself the portion.
Who is Henry James? from "The Beast in the Jungle"
300
In "Baker's Blue Jay Yarn," the owl was disappointed about this.
What is Yosemite?
400
Proponents of this literary movement asserted the importance of the individual, the unique, the eccentric.
What is romanticism?
400
"We were still in the shadow of war work and we went on doing some of it, visiting hospitals and seeing the soldiers left in them, now pretty well neglected by everybody. We had spent a great deal of our money during the war and we were economising, servants were difficult to get if not impossible, prices were high."
What is "Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"? by Gertrude Stein
400
As a child, this author escaped some of the unhappiness of his home by living on and of with his neighbors, The Prentisses, who served as surrogate parents for him.
Who is Jack London?
400
"Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?"
Who is T.S. Eliot? from "The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock"
400
Smiley's first name in "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
What is Leonidas?
500
This literary movement stated that the universe is materialistic and deterministic, not spiritual.
What is literary naturalism?
500
"I put the bedroll down. I stood up. I was myself. An uncontrollable joy gutted me after three months of humiliation, of being bossed and herded and bullied and insulted. I was myself and my own master. In this delirium of relief I inspected the pile of straw, decided against it, set up my be, disposed the roll on it, and began to examine my cell."
What is "The Enormous Room"? by e.e. cummings
500
This author used his influential position as editor of the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine to foster and encourage fellow realist innovators.
Who is William Dean Howells?
500
"No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew."
Who is Robert Frost? from "The Figure a Poem Makes"
500
The logo that Bret Harte created for the cover of the magazine The Overland Monthly, of which he was the editor.
What is a bear on the railroad tracks?
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