Literary Movements
Which literary movement has an emphasis on imagination and intuition?
Romanticism
This author wrote Walden.
Henry David Throeau
This book recounts living a solitary life in the woods in a self built cabin.
Walden
This author wrote in the Transcendentalism movement
Henry David Thoreau
What is the primary symbolic significance of the Valley of Ashes?
It symbolizes the moral decay hidden beneath wealth and glamour.
This movement uses dialogue from different voices from around the country
Realism
This author wrote The Masque of the Red Death.
Edgar Alan Poe
This short story tells of a disease ridden community that locks themselves away.
The Masque of the Red Death
This author wrote in the modernism movement
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
In The Great Gatsby, what does the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock primarily symbolize?
The hope and unattainability of the American Dream
This movement is highly experimental
Modernism
This author wrote The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
This play is about a murder investigation that highlights sexism.
Trifles
This author wrote in the Dark Romanticism movement
Edgar Alan Poe
Which characters most clearly represents the careless behavior of the wealthy elite?
Tom and Daisy Buchanan
This movement focuses on nature as symbolism and spiritual.
Transcendentalism
Which author wrote The Great Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This short story is about a woman who is not given proper care for her mental illness.
The Yellow Wallpaper
These authors are representative of the beginning of the feminist literary movement.
Susan Glaspell and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Which literary device is most evident in the recurring eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg?
Symbolism
This sub genre has characters at the mercy of forces outside their control
Dark/Gothic Romanticsim
This author wrote Huckleberry Finn.
Mark Twain
This novel is about the roaring 20's and the American Dream.
The Great Gatsby
This author represent the Realism movement.
Mark Twain
What is Fitzgerald’s overall critique of the American Dream in the novel?
The pursuit of wealth and status can corrupt moral values and lead to disillusionment.