A network of secret routes and safe houses used by nineteenth century enslaved people to escape to free states and Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
The tendency among certain authors to write about specific geographical areas.
What is Regionalism?
100
During the Modern Age, many authors rejected the United States and moved here.
Where is Europe?
100
A literary movement that is the presentation in art of the details of actual life.
What is Realism?
100
The use of dialect and descriptions of customs, clothing, manners, attitudes, scenery, and landscapes.
What is local color?
200
Folk songs that originated among slaves as a means of communication and the expression of desire for freedom.
What are slave narratives?
200
Realism was a reaction to what earlier movement in American Literature?
What is Romanticism?
200
A narrative technique that presents thoughts as if they were coming directly from a character's mind.
What is steam of consciousness?
200
The postwar disenchantment led a number of American writers to become known as what?
What are expatriates?
200
A writer's choice of tone, language, rhythm, structure, and organization.
What is style?
300
This type of literature was inspired by religious hymns of the white revivalists of the early nineteenth century and shaped by memories of traditional African music.
What are spirituals?
300
Realist authors wrote about what type of events?
What are depictions of ordinary/everyday life?
300
Which of the following adjectives does NOT describe the modernist world--fragmented, disillusioned, alienated, or hopeful?
What is hopeful?
300
This literary device captures the sense of chaos after the war, includes the complicated internal monologue, and creates a protagonist who is alienated and isolated.
What is stream of consciousness?
300
Writing that ridicules or criticizes individuals, ideas, institutions, social conventions, or other works of art or literature.
What is satire?
400
The good, gray poet.
Who is Walt Whitman?
400
Literature that usually shows characters who are severely limited by their environment and/or heredity.
What is Naturalism?
400
What was Ezra Pound's famous cry to artists of the Modernist period?
What is "make it new!"
400
True or false: Poets in the Modern age experimented with the physical appearance of the poem with punctuation, the content, and capitalization.
What is True?
400
The contrast between what is stated and what is meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
What is irony?
500
A word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated at regular intervals in a poem or song.
What is refrain?
500
True or false: Local color did in fact unify the country by avoiding the stereotyped characters found within particular regions on the country.
What is False?
500
Poets of the Modern age hoped to freeze a single movement in time and capture the emotions of that moment through which literary movement/style?
What is Imagism?
500
Poetry that lacks a regular rhythmical pattern or meter.
What is free verse?
500
In lines 12-13 of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T.S. Eliot uses what literary device?
"In the room the women come and go/Talking of Michaelangelo,"