Literary Movements
What is literary realism, and how does it differ from romance?
Who wrote “Up From Slavery,” advocating for vocational education and self-reliance?
Booker T. Washington.
This poet served as a Civil War nurse and wrote “The Wound-Dresser.”
Walt Whitman
What is the key feature of imagist poetry as seen in “In a Station of the Metro”?
Sharp, precise imagery juxtaposed against other precise images.
Which essay by Ezra Pound outlines his principles of imagism?
“A Retrospect.”
Which author’s essay, “Modern Fiction,” critiques the materialism of earlier writing styles?
Virginia Woolf.
Which Harlem Renaissance writer argued against Washington’s philosophy in “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others”?
W.E.B. Du Bois.
Who is known for creating local color stories like “The Luck of Roaring Camp”?
Bret Harte
Which poet uses frost and snow as metaphors for death across his poems?
Robert FROST!
What narrative technique does Faulkner use in As I Lay Dying?
Stream of Consciousness
What literary movement focuses on human behavior shaped by environment and heredity?
Naturalism
In “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” what does Zora Neale Hurston compare herself to?
A brown bag filled with various items.
Ernest Hemingway
Identify the modernist poetic forms exhibited in the following excerpt:
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch.
And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s,
My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened.
Fragmentation, Allusion, Emphasis upon isolation
This short story features a conversation about an operation, with deeper tensions left implied.
Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants.”
This movement prioritizes fragmented perspectives and imagistic precision.
Modernism
Who argued in “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” that Black artists should embrace their cultural identity?
Langston Hughes.
Name that author and poem:
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Which poet wrote “The Captured Goddess,” reflecting the tension between art and commodification?
Amy Lowell
Which text features the phrase “I will show you fear in a handful of dust”?
What are two key differences between Ezra Pound’s imagism and Robert Frost’s poetic style?
Identify the Poet and Poem:
Inscrutable His ways are, and immune
To catechism by a mind too strewn
With petty cares to slightly understand
What awful brain compels His awful hand.
Countee Cullen's "Yet do I Marvel"
Author and Text: "The dream was gone. Something had been taken from him. In a sort of panic he pushed the palms of his hands into his eyes and tried to bring up a picture of the waters lapping on Sherry Island and the moonlit veranda, and gingham on the golf-links and the dry sun and the gold color of her neck's soft down."
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams"
In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” what does the speaker repeatedly measure his life with?
Coffee spoons.
Identify the text: “I, too, sing America.”
Langston Hughes, “I, Too.”