The FINAL Jeopardy - Part 2 - Literary Eras

Potpourri

100

This story was, like, 90% dialogue

"Hills Like White Elephants" Hemingway

200

Contemporary Literature has been alternately titled as  many many MANY different -isms. Give me two of them...

Transrealism, Postmodernism, Post-postmodernism, Experimentalism

300

This is Islandborn's alternate title: 

Lola

400

A Raisin in the Sun got its name from this poem that has two different titles... give me one of them. 

"Harlem" or "A Dream Deferred"

500

DAILY DOUBLE

These 2 stories were all a dream...

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

Authors

100

Harlem Renaissance: 3 authors

Wright, McKay, Hughes, Hurston, Cullen, DuBois

200

Latin American Literature: 3 authors

Diaz, Neruda, Quiroga, Cisneros, Cofer

300

Contemporary Literature: 3 authors

McCarthy, Martel, Weir, Garmus, Butler, Kesey

400

Realism & Naturalism: 4 authors

Douglass, Crane, Cather, Bierce, Chopin, Twain

500

Modernism: 6 authors

Frost, Burton, Thurber, Sandburg, Masters, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Eliot, Steinbeck, Pound

THIS

100

THIS literary era features disillusionment, experimentation, diversity, detachment, and doomed heroes:

Modernism

200

THIS literary era intertwines fiction and nonfiction, often in confusing ways:

Postmodernism

300

THIS literary era heavily features magical realism, but later authors of the era rejected that storytelling element: 

Latin American Literature

400

New York was the unofficial capital and cultural center of THIS literary era: 

Harlem Renaissance

500

Journals and memoirs were the primary writing of THIS literary era:

Realism & Naturalism

THAT

100

One would argue that the covetous Baja Blast represents everything Mr. Sargent is as a person. THAT is an example of what literary term? 

Symbol

The Baja Blast is a SYMBOL of Mr. Sargent's idealized version of the American Dream, one that may prove to be ultimately... unachievable? At least, until lunch hour begins.

200

Steinbeck's "Chrysanthemums" ends with Elisa "crying weakly--like an old woman," after discovering that her flowers were thrown away. THAT quote is an example of what literary term? 

(don't overthink it)

Simile

300

Twain's "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" features a narrator who tells increasingly exaggerated tales about a man and his pets. THAT story contains multiple instances of what literary term? 

Hyperbole

x2 for dialect/vernacular

400

Cullen's "America" features a reference to Shelley's "Ozymandias," which itself references a character from Roman Mythology. THAT is an example of what literary term? 

Allusion

500

Mr. Mallard is dead at the beginning of Chopin's "Story of an Hour," but alive at the end, and vice versa with Mrs. Mallard. THAT is an example of what literary term? 

Irony

x2 points for "Situational Irony"

WHAT?!

100

hugely impacted by religion and colonization

Latin American Literature

200

rise of the anti-hero

Contemporary Literature

300

aesthetic or social; led by a bunch of news magazines

Realism & Naturalism

400

Imagist, symbolist, minimalist

Modernism

500

Depicted life as accurately as possible, but viewed as offensive

Realism & Naturalism

x2 for Regionalism/Local Color