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 follows his best friend to New Mexico to assist him.
Who is Father Vaillant?
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 Death Comes for the Archbishop.
Who is Willa Cather?
This form of punctuation can be used to join two independent clauses or clarify items in a list.
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 information.
What is a colon?
The mother in "Mother to Son" says that her life has not been like this object.
Unreliable narrators and black humor are features of this literary period.
What is the postmodernist period/postmodernism?
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 form of punctuation can be used to denote unessential information in a sentence or to add emphasis to a short phrase.
What is a dash?
In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" the speaker imagines that this living thing thinks the speaker's actions are odd.
What is a horse?