Final Review--American Literature!

Question 1

Which literary movement typically writes about the conflict of man vs. environment?

Accepted Answer

Naturalism

Question 2

Which is a repetition of similar vowel sounds in poetry?

Accepted Answer

Assonance

Question 3

Attempting to rhyme the words "won't" and "can't" is an example of

Accepted Answer

Slant rhyme

Question 4

Which literary movement had an interest in the supernatural?

Accepted Answer

Romanticism

Question 5

What literary movement is spurred on by the widespread use of photography?

Accepted Answer

Realism

Question 6

Which of the following was a Transcendentalist?

Accepted Answer

Henry David Thoreau

Question 7

What is a form of literature that mocks a public institution or figure?

Accepted Answer

satire

Question 8

Which literary movement occurred directly after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Realism

Question 9

What is the literary term used for making a reference to history, mythology, or the Bible?

Accepted Answer

Allusion

Question 10

What literary time period was The Devil and Tom Walker written in?

Accepted Answer

Romanticism

Question 11

What is the literary term used for the conjoining of two contrasting elements in a work?

Accepted Answer

Juxtaposition

Question 12

Which literary period had Transcendentalism and Anti-Transcendentalism as sub-movements?

Accepted Answer

Romanticism

Question 13

What literary time period did Thomas Jefferson write in?

Accepted Answer

Revolutionary

Question 14

Which literary movement included the novel The Great Gatsby?

Accepted Answer

Modernism

Question 15

In what literary time period did people compose a number of journals and diaries?

Accepted Answer

Colonial

Question 16

Which literary period was during the time of "flappers" and Prohibition?

Accepted Answer

Modernism

Question 17

What literary time period did the poet Anne Bradstreet write in?

Accepted Answer

Colonial

Question 18

In what literary period did Thomas Paine write?

Accepted Answer

Revolutionary

Question 19

What literary movement was interested in finding "the sinister" in simple and mundane things?

Accepted Answer

Anti-Transcendentalism

Question 20

Which literary time period included The Jazz Age?

Accepted Answer

Modernism

Question 21

What literary movement included, as a sub-movement, The Harlem Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Modernism

Question 22

What is a repetition of consonant sounds in poetry?

Accepted Answer

Consonance

Question 23

What literary time period did Patrick Henry write in?

Accepted Answer

Revolutionary

Question 24

Which is used as a description for the way that Puritan writers typically wrote?

Accepted Answer

Plain style

Question 25

What literary movement included Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston?

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance

Question 26

Which literary time period includes the writer Mark Twain?

Accepted Answer

Realism

Question 27

Which literary movement includes the writer Ambrose Bierce?

Accepted Answer

Realism

Question 28

What Harlem Renaissance writer frequently wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God?

Accepted Answer

Zora Neale Hurston

Question 29

What literary time period included sermons as a frequently used literary genre?

Accepted Answer

Colonial

Question 30

Which literary movement valued intuition and emotion over reason?

Accepted Answer

Romanticism

Question 31

Which period was one whose writers found nature at times nuturing, but at times threatening?

Accepted Answer

Native American

Question 32

What literary time period saw many political persuasive speeches?

Accepted Answer

Revolutionary

Question 33

Which period was one that frequently relied upon oral tradition?

Accepted Answer

Native American

Question 34

What is the literary term used for an apparent self-contradiction (i.e., jumbo shrimp)?

Accepted Answer

oxymoron

Question 35

What is the literary term used for a statement about the world, life, or society in a text?

Accepted Answer

Theme

Final Review--American Literature!

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Final Review--American Literature!

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