Literary Periods
Authors
Characters
Characteristics and Themes
Random
100
This "loving" literary period likely prefigures our own modern age.
What is Romantic or Romanticism?
100
Father of the Transcendentalism movement.
Who is Emerson?
100
What was the narrator's tragic flaw which was the primary source of his unhappiness and abusive nature in Poe's "The Black Cat?"
What is alcoholism?
100
The term romanticism implies a new emphasis on...NAME FOUR.
What is 1. Imagination 2. Creativity 3. Feeling 4. Narrowing from universal to particular outlook 5. Narrowing from humankind to nation or ethnic group 6. Narrowing from community mindset to individual
100
The speaker in "Out of the Cradle" hears this word whispered to him by the sea.
What is death?
200
Name two of the smaller movements that we studied within the Romantic period.
What are transcendentalism, gothic, or dark romantic?
200
Left college after a Calvinist revival swept through campus.
Who is Dickinson?
200
This fellow slave helped Douglass find some inner strength when he passed along his magical root.
Who is Sandy?
200
These are some characteristics of of Realism. (name four)
What is 1. Selective presentation of reality with emphasis on verisimilitude 2. Character more important than plot 3. Complex ethical choices at stake for characters 4. Focuses on middle class 5. Lots of regional or local color writers 6. Events are plausible and not sensational 7. Diction is not heightened 8. Authorial intrusions diminish as century progresses 9. Authors are objective and non-judgmental 10. Reject transcendentalist symbolism and favor imagery instead.
200
Louise Mallard hears this word whispered in the back of her mind.
What is free?
300
This movement, most popular in the 1890s, occurs during and after the Civil War as a direct response to Romanticism.
What is Realism?
300
Fired from his government job because his poems were considered too risque and liberal.
Who is Whitman?
300
The speaker in "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" watches THESE animals experience life, love, and loss by the sea.
What are birds?
300
This type of writing features stories that are objective, Darwinistic (survival of the fittest), deterministic (natural and socioeconomic forces are stronger than the character), with detached narration, excessive language, violence, and pessimistic tones.
What is naturalism?
300
Slaveholders worried teaching slaves to read and write would make them THIS, which turns out to be true in the case of Douglass.
What is unmanageable?
400
Once thought to be a facet of Realism, this literary tradition focuses on the trials of lower class citizens who are often too weak to survive. The authors apply scientific principals to determine the outcomes of their characters.
What is Naturalism?
400
Local color writer who explores the plight of women trapped in oppressive marriages.
Who is Chopin?
400
What is the name of the woman for whom the speaker grieves in "The Raven?"
What is Lenore?
400
According to the film American Transcendentalists THIS kind of reliance is true self-reliance.
What is God-reliance?
400
Maggie Johnson is a great example of a character from this literary movement. Though she "blossomed in a mud puddle," she could not escape her alcoholic parents, abusive home, or impoverished community.
What is naturalism?
500
Frederick Douglass wrote THIS kind of narrative, which falls within the Romantic period, though it shares a lot of characteristics with Realism.
What is a slave narrative?
500
Poe wrote this detective story which is the prototype for modern detective fiction?
What is "The Purloined Letter?"
500
Emerson sees God (not really a character, but go with me) as an over-soul or THIS two-word entity.
What is a Universal Being?
500
Realism includes stories that feature THIS or the faithful representation of reality or writing that appears to be true.
What is verisimilitude?
500
Emerson quit ministering at this kind of church before joining the transcendentalist movement.
What is Unitarian Universalist?
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