That's the Theory!
Let's Get Real
Harlem
We're So Modern!
Postmodernism
100

This theory looks at the way women are treated in literature.

What is Feminist Theory?

100

This is the part of life Realists like to write about.

What is daily?

100

This event is why Harlem filled up so fast with African Americans.

What is the Great Migration?

100

The Modern period occurred between these two wars.

What are WWI and WWII?

100

When an author inserts himself into a story or writes about how he's writing, it's called this.

What is metafiction?

200

This theory marks the differences in the social classes.

What is Marxist Theory?

200

The distinct way people speak according to the area where they live is called this.

What is vernacular?

200

Much like the Romantics this poet liked to write sonnets.

Who is Countee Cullen?

200

Modern writers were terrified of this.

What is technology?

200

When an author pastes together many genres in a single work it's called this.

What is pastiche?

300

This theory traces its roots back to Sigmund Freud.

What is Psychoanalitic Theory?

300

Realism focuses on this more than plot.

What is character?

300

This movement in music was a part of the Harlem Renaissance.

What is Jazz?

300

In the Great Gatsby, one of the main themes is this.

What is old money vs. new money?

300

The central story in The Catcher in the Rye is told by the main character in this fashion.

What is stream of consciousness?

400

In Feminist Theory, this type of woman usually loses her life.

What is transgressive?

400

The Realism was a reaction to this.

What is Romanticism?

400

The Harlem Renaissance included music, writing, and this.

What is Art?

400

The Great Gatsby uses this type of narration in the character of Nick.

What is first person?

400

Mrs. Gill argues that Postmodernism is dead and has been replaced with this.

What is Dystopian fiction?

500

Within Marxist Theory, we can equate Aubeny's Plantation to this.

What is a factory?

500

The Realistic period in America occurred between these two wars.

What are The Civil War and WWI?

500

This event ended the Harlem Renaissance.

What is the Great Depression?

500

This quote typifies the Modern period.

What is "Making nothing out of something?"

500

Postmodern works are written with this kind of timeline.

What is non-linear?

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