MLA
Realism
Naturalism
Modernism
Post-Modern/Poems
100
Whenever you TYPE the title of a novel, you always do this with your font.
What is italicize?
100
Realist authors often used this term, meaning a realistic reflection of regional speech and accent, grammatical or not.
What is dialect?
100
This catchphrase best paraphrases the idea behind Naturalism.
What is "survival of the fittest"?
100
This world event traditionally marks the beginning of the Modernist era.
What is World War I?
100
This post-modern play uses a "gentleman caller" as a symbol for the thing that is long hoped for and yet never arriving.
What is the Glass Menagerie?
200
Whenever you are handwriting the title of a novel in an essay, like Of Mice and Men, you always do this.
What is underline?
200
Realism focuses more on the development of this rather than this.
What is character and plot?
200
This author frequently wrote tales of harsh conditions that drew upon his own experience in the tundra.
Who is Jack London?
200
This group of Modernist poets focused specifically on the clarity of a single, clear, simple "word picture". H.D., Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, etc. are among them.
What is the Imagists?
200
In post-modern society, traditions are useless and truth is THIS.
What is relative?
300
Whenever you are citing lines of poetry, you do not cite by page number like novels, but instead by this number.
What is line number?
300
The novel Huck Finn is one of these - that is, a coming-of-age story, the tale of moral and psychological development from youth to adulthood.
What is a bildungsroman?
300
This author was a correspondent who experienced some unfortunate time at sea, much like one of the character's in his short story.
Who is Stephen Crane?
300
This short story author used useless machines for disabled soldiers as a symbol for the purposelessness and yet continued of routine of existentialism in Modern life. This also describes "the Lost Generation".
Who is Ernest Hemmingway? (the short story is "In Another Country"
300
This poet tragically killed herself at a young age. Her longing for death shows in the poem we read.
Who is Sylvia Plath?
400
Short stories and poems are always set apart from the titles of longer works( like novels) by using these in MLA format.
What is quotation marks.
400
This date (also the beginning point of a major historical event) traditionally marks the beginning point of the Realist movement.
What is 1865?
400
Naturalists do not believe characters are in charge of their own destiny. Instead they believe that fate is determined by this.
What is genetics (or environment or heredity)?
400
This Modernist poet is reknown for his lack of capitalization and fragmentation.
Who is e.e.cummings?
400
This poem shows the meaninglessness of death in the modern era, specifically using imagery to show the shock of the scene
What is "Car Wreck" by Shapiro?
500
Multiple lines of poetry (more than a single line) should be separated by this punctuation mark.
What is a slash (/) ?
500
Contrasting their Romantic predecessors, Realist authors try and limit the use of this in their writing.
What is symbolism?
500
This work of literature, although technically Modernist, can also be said to have Naturalist ideas running through it.
What is Of Mice and Men?
500
This spouse of a famous author died tragically in an insane asylum.
Who is Zelda Fitzgerald?
500
What historical threat after World War II loomed over questions over morality, nationality, etc., in the post-modern era?
What is the threat of nuclear weapons (or the Cold War, weapons of mass destruction, etc.) ?
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