Potpourri
Literary Movements
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The term for a quotation that ends with no explanation afterward.

What is a dangling quote?

100

This sub-genre focused on the historical realities of a region, namely slavery, racism, and patriarchy.

What is Southern Gothic?

100

“...the joy of life streamed with such ardent passion from his throat that for the onlookers it was not easy to stand the shock of it. But they braced themselves, crowded round the cage, and did not want ever to move away.” 

What is "The Hunger Artist"? Franz Kafka

100

Thinkers of this literary movement felt that logic and reason were paramount and that advances in science would ultimately bring good things to the world.

What is the Enlightenment?

100

This type of narrator has access to all the thoughts and experiences of all characters in the story.

What is a third-person omniscient narrator?

100

This author's great great grandfather was a judge at the Salem Witch Trials.

Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?

100

This poet wrote a poem about his father's often unappreciated contributions to the household.

Poet or poem title.

Who is Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays"?

200

The meaning of interpretations of a fictional work that the author had in mind when he or she was creating it.

What is authorial intention?

200

During this literary movement, coffee shops became a central hub for people to gather and debate controversial subjects.

What is the Enlightenment Era?

200

The position of the candelabrum displeased me, and outreaching my hand with difficulty, rather than disturb my slumbering valet, I placed it so as to throw its rays more fully upon the book.

But the action produced an effect altogether unanticipated. The rays of the numerous candles (for there were many) now fell within a niche of the room which had hitherto been thrown into deep shade by one of the bed-posts. 

What is "The Oval Portrait"?

200

During this era, people viewed nature as a healing power and a refuge from the artificial constructs of civilization.

What it the Romantic Era?

200

This point of view does not allow the narrator to dip into the heads of any of the characters.

What is third-person objective?

200

This author lost his mother and his wife to tuberculosis.

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

200

This poet was a 13th century Sufi mystic.

Who is Rumi?

300

This type of narrator is often frightening and may have sinister motives.

What is the intentionally unreliable narrator?

300
During this literary movement, authors tried to replicate the true nature of reality.

What is Realism?

300

“He was pale as death, anxious and absorbed, and hung over the furnace as if it depended on his utmost watchfulness whether the liquid which it was distilling should be the draught of immortal happiness of misery.” 

What is "The Birthmark"? Nathaniel Hawthorne

300

This literary movement was a reaction against the scientific thought of Enlightenment thinking.

What is Romanticism?

300

Something that represents something else - usually something physical that represents something abstract.

What is a symbol?

300

This author worked in a law office and also wrote a 47-page letter to his father that was never delivered.

Who is Franz Kafka?

300

This poet wrote about her favorite teacher in 6th grade.

Who is Sharon Olds, "Mrs. Krikorian"?

400

Elements of this genre of literature include the ideas of propaganda being used to control citizens of society and citizens living in a dehumanized state.

What is dystopian?

400

This literary movement came from a combination of Romanticism and the Gothic.

What is Dark Romanticism?

400

"The few hours for rest he spent hewing and hacking with his blunt knife, never speaking, until his watch came again,—working at one figure for months, and, when it was finished, breaking it to pieces perhaps, in a fit of disappointment."

What is "Life in the Iron Mills"?

400

This literary movement sub-genre placed its emphasis on human fallibility and sin and felt that even good men and women drift toward sin and self-destruction.

What is Dark Romanticism?

400

This type of narrator can, in some cases, be a child or outsider who believes they are telling the truth but are not fully aware of the circumstances.

What is the unintentionally unreliable narrator?

400

This author was known as the hermit novelist and is known for shocking and sometimes hilarious stories.

Who is Flannery O'Connor?

400

This poem is about making your way through the world in the way you see fit, despite what other people say.

Author or poem title.

Who is Mary Oliver, "The Journey"?

500

The name for the following:

1.A statement introducing a quotation

2.The quote itself

3.An explanation following the quotation

What is framing a quote or a quotation sandwich?

500
During this literary movement, novelists strayed from the traditional story arc, noting that life did not follow a definite arc of events.

What is Realism?

500

"She lifted the hat one more time and set it down slowly on top of her head. Two wings of gray hair protruded on either side of her florid face, but her eyes, sky-blue, were as innocent and untouched by experience as they must have been when she was ten."

What is "Everything that Rises Must Converge"?

500

Largely because of the occurrence of World War I, this literary movement no longer saw the progress and growth in the world. Instead they say the decay and alienation of the individual.

What is Modernism?

500

This element of writing is so important because it filters everything in your story.

What is point of view?

500

This author's works largely focus on the effects of technology upon society.

Who is Ray Bradbury?

500

This poet constructed his own poem from the first two lines of someone else's poem.

Author or poem title.

Who is Billy Collins, "Litany"?

600

This main subject discussed in a piece of writing is often called the heart of the story.

What is theme?

600

During this literary movement, characters were often looked upon as human beasts, whose lives were governed by forces of heredity, instinct, and passion.

What is Naturalism?

600

“Oh, occasionally they frightened you with their clinical accuracy, they startled you, gave you a twinge, but most of the time what fun for everyone, not only your own son and daughter, but for yourself when you felt like a quick jaunt to a foreign land, a quick change of scenery.”

What is "The Veldt"?

600

The buzzword of the Enlightenment Era, defined as a belief in human equality, especially with respect to social, political, and economic affairs

What is egalitarianism?

600

A narrator who is confined to what is experienced, thought, or felt by a single character.

What is a third person, limited narrator?

600

This author's most celebrated work created a three-tier structure that is a recreation of the hierarchal social strata of mid-nineteenth-century America.

Who is Rebecca Harding Davis?

600

This poet was the first Black American appointed as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress.

Who is Robert Hayden?