The time period for this era is set between WW1 and WW11.
What is the modern era?
100
This author is known as the greatest American satirist.
Who is Mark Twain?
100
This is the vantage point from which the story is told.
What is point-of-view?
100
The protaganist in this short story remains nameless in order to create a more naturalistic adventure.
What is "To Build a Fire"?
100
This occurs when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen.
What is situational irony?
200
A new genre, historical fiction, appeared during this era.
What is the post-modern or contemporary era?
200
This author held strong beliefs that war was "not kind" and wrote about his feelings on war in popular short stories and poems approximately 30 years after the Civil War.
Who is Stephen Crane?
200
This is a style of writing that ridicules people and institutions in an attempt to bring about change.
What is satire?
200
This is a famous slave narrative that documents not how a man was made a slave, but rather how a slave was made a man.
What is "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"?
200
This refers to the reasons for a character's behavior
What is motivation?
300
One of the primary characteristics of this era was a profound sense of disillusionment and the death of the American dream.
What is the modern era?
300
This author could be considered the Martin Luther King of his day as his voice was the voice of the American negro.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
This was a 19th century literary movement that portrayed life as if it were being lived under a microscope.
What is naturalism?
300
In this story, a young man arrives home from WW1 disillusioned and disconnected.
What is "A Soldier's Home"?
300
This is the struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story.
What is conflict?
400
This authors in this era steadfastly rejected the larger-than-life hero of the Romantic Era.
What is the realist era?
400
This author first introduced us to the anti-hero during the Modern Era.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
400
Hyperbole, understatement, comic characters and situations are often used when an author inserts these types of literary devices into his stories.
What are comic devices?
400
In this short story, two men slowly going crazy are left in charge of a nuclear weapon.
What is "Game"?
400
This is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlikely things without the use of such specific words of comparison as "like", "as", "than", or "resembles".
What is a metaphor?
500
The Naturalists belonged to this era.
What is the realist era?
500
This author was well-known for his southern gothic tales. We read a story about a spinster who murdered her boyfriend because he rejected her.
Who is William Faulkner?
500
This is the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work.
What is theme?
500
In this selection, John Hersey describes the experiences of survivors of the atomic blast in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
What is "A Noiseless Flash"?
500
This is a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement for effect