The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words
What is alliteration
100
These writers challenged the traditional values of society and forms or literature
Who are the Modern writers
100
The contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning
What is irony
100
Prohibition and the Stock Market crash were historical events of this time period
What is the Modern Age
100
Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else
What is a symbol
200
The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words
What is consonance
200
Writers of this time period questioned traditional values, focused on social problems and human despair
What is WWI
200
The opposite of a hyperbole
What is understatement
200
This author who wrote spooky stories during the Gothic period used piles of sense imagery to convey the emotional ties between narrator and reader. One example would be the beating heart that mirrors the pace of one of his stories.
Edgar Allen Poe
200
A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics
What is personification
300
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds
What is assonance
300
These writers focused on the macabre and had a significant influence on subsequent American literature
Who are the Southern, or Gothic, writers
300
The manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude
What is tone
300
This time period is when African American writers turned New York city into a center of creativity
What is the Harlem Renaissance
300
A deliberate, extravagant, and often courageous exaggeration
What is hyperbole
400
The use of words whose sound suggests their meaning
What is onomatopoeia
400
This movement is a reaction to Romanticism and focuses on portraying everyday actions, events, and feelings.
What is Realism?
400
This poet was a rule-breaker, writing such classic works as "Song of Myself"
Who is Walt Whitman?
400
In Gatsby, this is the color that represents desire, dreams, and Gatsby's love for Daisy.
What is green?
500
A figurative use of language in which comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term
What is a metaphor
500
This worldwide economic event encouraged a revival of Regionalist authors and literature
What is the Depression
500
A reference in a work of literature to something outside of the work
What is allusion
500
These pieces of literature highlight the trials of the African American experience during the Civil War period.
What are slave narratives?
500
This idea drives many aspects of American Literature--a simplified version of this in the 1940s became to own a home in a stable neighborhood.