What time period was the Englihtenment literary movement?

17th-18th Century, AKA The Age of Reason

Gothic literature takes its name from...

A type of architecture that often featured in Gothic writing

What were writers in the Romantic movement "pushing back" against, or reacting to?

The logical and scientific attitude of the Enlightenment

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Literary Movements Unit Period 7

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1
Charles Dickens was a famous author from which movement?
Modernism
Victorian
Renaissance
Antiquity
2
What literary movement preceded (came before) the Renaissance literary movement?
Enlightenment
Gothic
Postmodernism
Medieval
3
Our current literary movement is called
Modernism
Premodernism
Trancendentalism
Postmodernism
4
What major events may have inspired many Modernist writers?
The two World Wars
Invention of the Steam Engine
The Black Plague
The Discovery of America
5
Satire (the use of humor or sarcasm to point out a problem) is most found in which movement?
Romaniticism
Gothic
Medieval
Enlightenment
6
What time period was the Englihtenment literary movement?
19th-20th Century, AKA The Gilded Era
Early 20th Century - AKA The Edwardian Era
Pre-14th Century, AKA The Dark Ages
17th-18th Century, AKA The Age of Reason
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Gothic literature takes its name from...
A subculture in the Victorian Era that wore a lot of black
A type of music that Gothic writers would often listen to
A type of architecture that often featured in Gothic writing
A tribe that Gothic writers were usually decendants of
8
The most common genre of writing in the time of Antiquity was
The Novel
The Metafiction
The Epic Poem
The Essay
9
Writers in the Modernism movement tend to
Experiment with form
Be very traditional
Write about death and despair
Use Middle English
10
Which term refers to a character that does not change through the course of a story?
Putrid Character
Dynamic Character
Characterization
Static Character
11
The first true writing was invented by the
Ancient Greeks
Ancient Indians
Ancient Chinese
Ancient Sumerians
12
What literary movement includes Chaucer's Canterbury Tales?
Renaissance
Romanticism
Enlightenment
Medieval
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What was one of the most popular genres of writing during the Medieval literary movement?
Poetry
Novels
Science Fiction
Political Essays
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What were writers in the Romantic movement "pushing back" against, or reacting to?
The logical and scientific attitude of the Enlightenment
The dominance of the Catholic Church in Medieval writings
The formality and moralistic views of Victorian literature
The dark and gloomy attitude of the Gothic Era
15
Which of the following was a large focus in the poetry of Romanticism?
The Church
Nature and its beauty
Courtly love
Ironically, it was all about hating each other
16
Which of the following was a common theme or feature of Renaissance literature?
Minimalism
Rationalism
Solecism
Humanism

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