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Modern Times
Concept Check!
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20. Which of the following would provide good material to use to research more information about the Salem Witch Trials? A. atlas B. dictionary C. encyclopedia D. thesaurus
What is an encyclopedia?
100
This is the primary style of writing during this time period? A. Descriptive, mostly journals, of experiences. B. Imaginative C. Dark and Morbid D. Persuasive and radical.
What is D. Persuasive and radical.
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This is the primary style we moved away from in Romanticism _i__________, to the primary style we wrote in r___________.
What is imaginative to realistic?
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What TWO major world events really sparked this time period into being? (Hint: Wars initiate change always)
What is WWI and WWII?
100
This persuasive/ rhetorical strategy would have a tagline like this: "Because we all want the most for our children. Because we all want them to grow and be healthy. Because we all care. Buy Lever 2000."
What is the BANDWAGON appeal?
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The style of most Puritan writing can be considered which of the following: A. Simple and Direct B. Eloquent and full of imagery. C. Figurative and Fictional D. Narrative and Metaphorical
What is A: Simple and Direct?
200
Name two writers of the Age of Revolution/ Revolutionary Age.
Who is: Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine Ben Franklin Washington Irving
200
2. What social issues were prevalent during the realism time period? a. Movement towards the west and the industrial revolution. b. Civil rights marches to the capital and desegregation. c. America was working towards their independence. d. Focusing on the American Dream between the gilded age and the Depression.
What is A. Movement towards the West and a change in social politics towards equality and state's rights.
200
This is a sub-genre/movement of Modernism, initiated by the "Great Migration" of African Americans to the North (mainly in the cities of Chicago and New York City), which celebrates the art, music, literature and other facets of the rich African American culture.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
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There are two types of literary devices used in satires. What are they called? One is an extreme exaggeration and the other is an extreme minimization of an issue. Bonus +20: We used a type of this in the Poe activity where we wrote about our school. What was this called?
What is a hyperbole and understatement? Bonus: What is a parody?
300
This was the famous metaphor that the Puritans wanted to be known as:
What is a City on a Hill?
300
This was the main types of writing you would encounter during this time period (think novels? poems?)
What are pamphlets, letters, news articles, political ads)
300
This major catastrophic event in American history truly initiated the change from Romanticism to Realism. What event was this?
What is the Civil War?
300
Name two famous authors of the Modernist time period? Bonus +20 if you can name their works.
Who is: Ezra Pound T.S. Eliot Ernest Hemingway Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston Robert Frost F. Scott Fitzgerald Jean Toomer
300
This literary device is seen here in Obama's speech excerpt. This is not only a structural or sound device technique used in writing, but used as a rhetorical strategy as well. My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. Homes have been lost, jobs shed, businesses shattered. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things … They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.
What is parallelism?
400
Who was the famous woman writer who became the first published author in the pre-United States? One of her most famous works included "To My Dear and Loving Husband." She wrote mostly poetry with themes considered very 'edgy' and feminist for her time.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
400
Name at least one propaganda technique utilized during the Revolutionary time period as evident from our lesson on Thursday?
What is name-calling, restatement, emotional language, aphorisms, rhetorical questions, and bandwagon.
400
This literary device was utilized extensively, particularly in the unit on Huck Finn, to criticize the wrong-doings of several types of people: criminals, racist, slave-owners, the wealthy, and others.
What is a satire?
400
It was a guillotine indeed, and the hangman was the first barber, who, attired in a white coat and smoking a cigarette, leaned nonchalantly against the first chair. In the above passage, what is Fitzgerald’s primary purpose in using the guillotine metaphor? A. to emphasize that the barber is hostile towards Bernice B. to make the act of the haircut seem more ominous C. to foreshadow how the haircut will affect Bernice D. to introduce the barber as a dangerous man
What is C. Foreshadowing
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What is the definition of a juxtaposition? a. A comparison using like or as b. A reference to another work, historical event, literature c. Comparing to dissimilar things to make an implicit point “Jumbo Shrimp” d. When a person parallels two different things in a humorous way.
What is C. Comparing two dissimilar things?
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Read the excerpt below to answer the question. To interrupt another, even in common Conversation, is reckon’d highly indecent. How different this is, from the Conduct of a polite British House of Commons where scarce every person without some confusion, that makes the Speaker hoarse in calling to Order and how different from the Mode of Conversation in many polite Companies of Europe, where if you do not deliver your Sentence with great Rapidity, you are cut off in the middle of it by the Impatient Loquacity of those you converse with, and never suffer’d to finish it— In this excerpt from "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America," which device does Franklin use to convey his opinion? A. irony B. metaphor C. satire D. understatement
What is C: Satire?
500
This movement moved away from _______ in Puritansim and closer to ___________.
What is religion/ rule by religion to science and politics/ rule by reason/ democracy.
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Match up these terms with their definitions: 1. Naturalism 2. Realism 3. Regionalism 4. Satire A. A time period of writing following romanticism describing events in life as they really occur—normally to encourage change. B. A sub-genre in realism where people focused on primarily the relationship of humans v nature. Nature is in control. C. Writing in a way to criticize. Sometimes humorous. Points out human flaw. D. D. Literature written in a way that it’s evident of the local location/time period based on things like character behavior and dialect.
What is 1:B, 2:A, 3:D, 4:C
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What was the event called that initiated the movement of African Americans to the north?
What is the Great Migration?
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Define or give examples of the three types of IRONY: Dramatic Verbal Situational
What is Dramatic: Difference between what the audience knows to be true and what the characters in the story know to be true Verbal:Contrast between what is said and what is actually meant. Ex. “Oh, I just can’t wait to clean my room, Mom!” Situational: Irony that occurs when the results of a situation are far different from what is expected or seems appropriate
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