Literary Periods
This literary time period featured realities of life, dialect/vernacular, regionalism, and a focus on the common man.
What is the realist period/realism?
The attitude of the author or speaker.
What is tone?
This author wrote The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
These kinds of works are placed in quotation marks.
What are Minor Works (songs, poems, short stories)?
This character wants to restore the past.
Who is Jay Gatsby?
What literary period occurred from 1910-1945 and featured fragmentation and a focus on alienation and disillusionment?
What is the modernist period/modernism?
A repeated symbol or image that contributes to the theme of a story.
What is a motif?
This author wrote A Raisin in the Sun.
Who is Lorraine Hansberry?
These kinds of works are placed in italics.
What are Major Works (books, movies, albums)?
This character remains entirely nameless throughout the entire story about her.
Who is the woman from "The Yellow Wallpaper"?
A literary period with a focus on African American experiences in the United States began in this neighborhood.
What is Harlem, New York?
This literary technique uses disturbing themes/actions or violence in stories to communicate a truth.
What is black humor?
This author wrote Of Mice and Men.
Who is John Steinbeck?
This form of punctuation can be used to join two independent clauses but not to introduce a quote.
What is a semicolon?
The grandmother in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is killed by what?
This type of literature features elements of black humor, violence, and the supernatural.
Southern Gothic Literature
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated.
What is metonymy?
This author wrote "Harrison Bergeron."
Who is Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.?
This form of punctuation can be used to introduce a quote after a full sentence.
What is a colon?
The mother in "Mother to Son" says that her life has not been like this object.
A philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the New England region of the United States; prioritized the ability of man to become enlightened through self-effort, self-knowledge, and studying nature.
What is the transcendentalist period?
This literary devices is a continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break in poetry.
What is enjambment?
This author wrote "The Story of an Hour."
Who is Kate Chopin?
This is a set of parentheses inside of which is the author's last name and page number.
What is a citation?
In Of Mice and Men, Candy is best friends with this?
What is a dog?