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LITERARY TERMS
LITERARY PERIODS
WHERE WERE THE WRITERS?
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
NOVELS READ
100
A reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature.
What is an allusion?
100
Works that often contain dialect and detailed settings are common in this literary period?
What is Realism?
100
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner
What is Modernism?
100
The first continental railroad connected the East and West during this literary period?
What is Realism?
100
"a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock."
What is The Great Gatsby?
200
This is the contrast between what the character thinks to be true and what we (the reader) know to be true.
What is dramatic irony?
200
In this literary period, imagination and intuition are favored over reason and facts.
What is Romanticism?
200
Thomas Pain and John Locke
What is Rationalism?
200
The California Gold Rush occurred during this literary period.
What is Romanticism?
200
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
What is Huckleberry Finn?
300
A poem written mainly to express the feelings of emotions or thought from a particular person.
What is a lyric poem?
300
Typically written in "Plain Style", works from this period were mostly designed for instructive purposes.
What is Puritanism?
300
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Ambrose Bierce
What is Realism?
300
The 13th Amendment (abolition of slavery) occurred during this literary period?
What is Realism?
300
"Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving."
What is Huckleberry Finn?
400
Telling a story in parts with long lapses of time and often moving forward and backward within the plot.
What is fragmented narration?
400
This movement in the Realism Period focused on determinism-man’s life is dominated by the forces he cannot control: biological instincts, social environment– works from this movement were often pessimistic.
What is Naturalism?
400
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were poets of this American Literary Period.
What is Romanticism?
400
WWI and a worldwide flu epidemic occurred during this period?
What is Modernism?
400
They were careless people, . . . --they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
What is The Great Gatsby?
500
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words.
What is assonance?
500
Parallel to Modernism, writers in this movement used the structure of blues songs in their poetry.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
500
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe are known as _______________________; a literary movement of the Romanticism Period.
What are Anti-Transcendentalist?
500
Harvard University was founded near Boston during this literary period.
What is Puritanism?
500
"prisoner for life, and now his one ray of light was to be extinguished."
What is Ethan Frome?