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Review game for the Lit Movements Exam in American Literature
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Which did NOT happen during Modernism?
Roaring 20's
Gold rush in California
Great Depression
World War I and 2
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First movement to give up on God/faith completely
Realism
Transcendentalism
Modernism
Contemporary
3
technology, muscial rhythms in prose, Vietnam War, expressionism
Contemporary
Modernism
Rationalism
Harlem Renaissance
4
juxtapostition of events out of time to show inner workings of the human mind
Modernism
Realism
Contemporary
Transcendentalism
5
Grievances against the king
Declaration of Independence
Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge
Scarlet Letter
SInners in the Hands of an Angry God
6
Who is known as a "Dark Romantic" poet?
Whitman
Thoreau
Poe
Dickinson
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Native American Literature is known for which of the following?
oral story telling
all the above
creation myths
trickster tales
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Dates for Realism
1800-1900
1850-1900
1750-1800
1900-1950
9
Character-driven stories, not plot-driven
Realism
Modernism
Transcendentalism
Romanticism
10
Tennesse Williams/ Streetcar Named Desire
Modernism
Realism
Comtemporary
Harlem Renaissance
11
Movement during the Civil War
Realism
Puritanism
Modernism
Romanticism
12
part of Modernism
Transcedentalism
Contemporary
Realism
Harlem Renaissance
13
First movement to focus on psychology
Modernism
Transcendentalism
Contemporary
Realism
14
rock gathering
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge
The Lottery
How It Feels to be Colored Me
15
Which of these poets is from the Puritan Movement?
Phyllis Wheatly
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Anne Bradstreet
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Time slows down and the ticking of a watch
Great Gatsby
Streetcar Named Desire
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge
17
Why are there no novels or plays from the Puritan era?
Writing fiction was against the Puritan religion.
Native Americans burned all the books.
They were all scientists, not writers.
People were too busy surviving.
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dancing for coins and the "Great Stuffer of Bags"
The Lottery
Tom Sawyer
Walden
How it Feels to be Colored Me
19
Dates for Contemporary Movement
1900-1950
1975 to today
1850-1950
1950-today
20
Which is NOT a characteristic of the Romantic Movement?
everything is a reflection of the Divine Soul
value of nature
common man as the hero
happy endings
21
Which writer is NOT from Modernism?
Langston Hughes -- Mother to Son
Shirley Jackson -- The Lottery
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Great Gatsby
Robert Frost -- Road Less Traveled
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Zora Neale Hurston -- How It Feels to be Colored Me
Harlem Renaissance
Transcendentalism
Modernism
Contemporary
23
Which of the following is NOT part of Modernism?
wealth without morality
total break from tradition
disillusionment with the American dream
Jack London
24
Which of these writers is from the Puritan era?
Emily Dickinson
William Bradford
Benjamin Franklin
Phyllis Wheatley
25
Roaring 20's and the "Lost Generation"
Modernism
Realism
Harlem Renaissance
Transcendentalism
26
Which is NOT part of the Harlem Renaissance?
jazz music
inner quest for identity
Great Migration
racial pride
27
Another term for Rationalism is . . .
"Post-modernism"
"The Jazz Age"
"The American Renaissance"
"The Age of Reason"
28
What are the dates for Puritanism?
1500-1700
1750-1800
1600-1800
1400-1650
29
Why are there no novels or plays from the Rationalism Movement?
too busy surviving
too busy building a nation and separating from England
England burned all the books in the war
wirring fiction was against the Deistic world view
30
E. E. Cummings is known for . . .
standing up for civil rights
local language and dialects
"shaping" poetry on the page
jazz rhythms
31
Dates for Transcendentalism?
1840-1860
1750-1850
1800-1900
1800-1850
32
Which order is correct?
Puritanism, Rationalism, Romanticism, Transcendentalism
Native American, Realism, Transcendentalism, Contemporary
Rationalism, Realism, Romanticism, Modernism
Puritanism, Realism, Romanticism, Transcendentalism
33
Why do we not know who the authors are for the Native American myths?
The myths were passed down orally.
It was part of their culture to write anonymously.
They were written and edited by groups.
The myths are too old.
34
Who wrote "The Birthmark"?
Edgar Allan Poe
Washington Irving
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mark Twain
35
Which does NOT fit into Realism?
local language and dialects
Richard Cory
bold experimentation with style
factories, slums, and the working class
36
Dates for Romanticism?
1750-1875
1850-1900
1800-1850ish
1800-1900
37
What was NOT going on in America during the Romantic Movement?
City populations expanding and growing
Revolutionary War
Industrialization
California gold rush
38
All people have value, even women and blacks, because we are all part of the Divine Soul.
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Realism
Contemporary
39
Pick the correct time period for Rationalism.
1650-1750
1700-1850
1800-1850
1750-1800
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Why were myths NOT created?
to teach respect for nature and animals
to entertain children
to teach information about the natural world
to teach moral lessons
41
Most prominent philosophy at the time of Rationalism was
Divine Soul
Theism
The American Dream
Deism
42
What did NOT happen during the Puritan Movement?
Starvation of many
Writing of the Scarlet Letter
First Thanksgiving
Salem Witch Trials
43
Which is NOT a characteristic of Puritanism?
Focus on God
Journals and diaries
Plain, straightforward, simple style
Focus on politics
44
search for anything new, inner struggles, poetic and musical elements in prose
Transcendentalism
Contemporary
Modernism
Harlem Renaissance
45
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn by Mark Twain
Realism
Romanticism
Harlem Renaissance
Modernism
46
God holds you above the flames of hell just like a spider.
"Walden" --Thoreau
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" --Edwards
"Of Plymouth Plantation" --Bradford
"To Build a Fire" --Jack London
47
No one comes to the funeral in the mansion
The Lottery
Great Gatsby
Scarlet Letter
Tom Sawyer
48
fancy language to try and imitate the British; imagination, focus on the supernatural
Realism
Contemporary
Rationalism
Romanticism
49
Which is NOT from the Romantic period?
"Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"
"Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Poe's "The Raven"
Scarlet Letter
50
"I wished to live deliberately, and not when I came to die, discovered that I had not lived."
Realism
Puritanism
Transcendentalism
Romanticism
51
Which poet wrote about being thankful she was a slave and brought to America?
Zora Neale Hurston
Anne Bradstreet
Emily Dickinson
Phyllis Wheatley
52
Which author was NOT writing during Rationalism?
Phyllis Wheatly
Washington Irving
Thomas Jefferson
Ben Franklin
53
part of Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Rationalism
Realism
Puritanism
54
Common man as the hero
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Modernism
Realism
55
Self-reliance, non-conformity, nature, intuition
Romanticism
Realism
Rationalism
Transcendentalism
56
Who wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
Anne Bradstreet
Jonathan Edwards
William Bradford
Henry David Thoreau
57
The most famous piece of writing from Rationalism is . . .
Scarlet Letter
Thomas Paine's pamphets
"Declaration of Independence"
Leaves of Grass
58
Which movement is particularly known for happy endings?
Rationalism
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Realism
