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Literary Criticism Quiz: Literary Movements
Literary Criticism Quiz: Literary Movements
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A UIL Literary Criticism quiz for literary movements.
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1764-1820. Gloomy, enigmatic settings and plots that set up horror. EX. Edgar Allan Poe.
Postcolonial Literature
Magic Realism
Sturm und Drang
Gothic fiction
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1960s. Poetry movement influenced by abstract art, and surrealism. Serious, ironic, and urban.
New York School
The Harlem Group
Silver Fork School
Nonrepresentational Poetics
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Italy; 1500-1700. Improvisational comedy, routine characters, loose plot. Modernly, a sitcom.
Comedy of Situation
Cringe Comedy
Commedia dell'arte
Surrealism
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1500-1660. "Rebirth," arose when new ideas were mixed with old. Ex. Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne
Middle English Period
Renaissance
Modernism
Jacobean Age
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German 1770s. "Storm and stress," fervent individualism against Neoclassicism. EX. Goethe.
Nationalism
Sturm und Drang
Nouveau Roman
Commedia dell'arte
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1950-now. Nations who were under European colonization; contests Eurocentricism. EX. Rushdie
Postmodernism
Postcolonial Literature
Nouveau Roman
Post-imperial Literature
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1916-1922 movement stressing avant-garde, a reaction to WWI. Nihilistic, rejected customs.
Dadaism
Metaphysical poets
High Modernism
Neoclassicism
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1914-1965. WWII influence; England lost position as political power; uncertainty and anger
Augustan Age
Realism
Modernist Period
Period of Cynicism and Revolt
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1935-present movement combining realism with dream-like fantasy. EX. Jorge Luis Borges
Commedia dell'arte
Magic Realism
Nouveau Roman
Gothic Fiction
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1865-1900. Detailed realism to show environment, heredity, & society effect human character.
Naturalism
Realism
Transcendentalism
Period of Conformity and Criticism
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1920s. Golden age of Modernism. EX.
Ulysses
by James Joyce;
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf.
High Modernism
Metaphysical Poets
Neoclassicism
Nouveau Roman
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1848-1870 movement inspired by Italian art, uniting sensuality and religion with old methods.
Romanticism
Pre-Raphaelites
Symbolists
Neoclassicism
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1955-1970; French. AKA "New Novel," went against customary basics of novel such as plot.
Commonwealth Interregnum
Nouveau Roman
Résistance à l'écriture
Post-modernist Era
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428-1100; English. Began with invasion of Teutonic, ended with Normans. Christianity introduced
Middle English Period
Teutonic Age
Anglo-Norman Period
Old English Period
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1950s-1960s movement. Americans who sought enlightenment through counterculture of sex & drugs
Bloomsbury Group
Angry Young Men
Lost Generation
Beat Generation
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1835-1860. Philosophical & spiritual; materialism for unity with nature. EX. Emerson; Thoreau.
Diminishing Age
Transcendentalism
Period of Confessional Self
Naturalism
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1830-1900. Work with honesty over hyperbole, & drama. Normal modern life. EX. Dickens &Eliot.
Modernism
Romanticism
Realism
Elizabethan Era
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1965-present. Marked by denial of order, embraced existentialism as well as anti-heroes.
Modernist Period
Period of Questioning and Reflection
Post-Modernist Period
Contemporary Literature
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1660-1798. Rediscovery of classical Greek and Roman work. Ex. Dryden; Swift; Burke; Pope
Nouveau Roman
Symbolists
Pre-Raphaelites
Neoclassicism
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1940s British poets who struggle to see the world afresh, as if a foreign visitor
Martian School
Transcendentalists
Cockney School
The Foreigners
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1950-1980. Male British writers against political establishment and arrogant middle class.
Bloomsbury Group
Lost Generation
Angry Young Men
Harlem Renaissance
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1660-1790 movement known as Age of Reason. Knowledge, development, and independence emphasized
Metaphysical Poets
Aestheticism
Enlightenment
Realism
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1832-1901. Strict social, governmental, & sexual conservatism. EX. Bronte sisters; Dickens
Realism
Victorian Era
Edwardian Era
Postcolonial Literature
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1960-present. Strong turning inward, uncertainty, revolt, & cynicism. Ex. Updike, Plath, Sexton
Period of Conformity and Criticism
Period of Unrest
Diminishing Age
Period of Confessional Self
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1835-1910. Celebrated "art for art's sake," didn't hold moral/political value. EX. Oscar Wilde.
Aestheticism
Commedia dell'arte
Surrealism
Enlightenment
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1798-1832. Countered Enlightenment. Impulsive, subjective, innocence of nature. EX. Austen
Transcendentalism
Realism
Romanticism
Naturalism
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1607-1765; American. Subjects of government, wealth, & political rights. Ex. Benjamin Franklin
Early National Period
Colonial Period
Postcolonial literature
Revolutionary Period
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1765-1830; US. New nation, appreciation of the wild and nature. Ex. Washington Irving, Bryant
Revolutionary and Early National Period
Patriotic Age
Anti-Federalist Age
Old American Period
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Late 1800s. Aesthetic ideology of excess & artificiality. Marked by self-disgust & perversion.
Parnassians
Age of Exorbitance
Lavish School
Decadent Movement
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1920s-1930s, French. Broke barriers between rational and irrational with experimentation.
Sturm und Drang
Aestheticism
Surrealism
Symbolists
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1906-1930s. Small group of London friends and lovers; liberated British culture. EX. Woolf
Graveyard School
Silver Fork School
Pre-Raphaelites
Bloomsbury Group
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Early 1900s. Poetry favoring imagery and clear, sharp language. Ex. Ezra Pound.
Period of Clarity and Depiction
Modernism
Imagism
Symbolists
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1558-1603. Prosperous era of England, primarily drama. EX. Francis Bacon; Shakespeare; Spenser
Edwardian Era
Elizabethan Era
Victorian Era
Enlightenment
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1350-1500. Political & religious unrest; Black Death; mystery plays; alliterative verse
Middle English Period
Early Tudor Age
Caroline Age
Anglo-Norman Period
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1918-1930. African-America writings, art, & music in NYC. EX. W.E.B. DuBois; Langston Hughes
Symbolists
Bloomsbury Group
Brooklyn Group
Harlem Renaissance
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1870-1890; French. Poets who lashed out against realism, and used free verse and prose poems.
Silver Fork School
Symbolists
Transcendentalism
Metaphysical Poets
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Late 1800s Scottish writers who dealt idealistically with Scottish village life & used dialect
Angry Scotsmen
The Dialectics
Geneva School
Kailyard School
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1930-1970 movement responding to monotony/purposelessness of life. EX.
Waiting for Godot
Absurdist
Dadaism
Lost Generation
Beat Generation
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1918-1930 movement of disillusioned writers, mostly WW1 soldiers. EX. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Transcendentalism
Angry Young Men
Realism
Lost Generation
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1820s-1840s. Called "fashionable novels," & depicted lives of the upper class and aristocracy.
Fashionable Age
Age of Aristocracy
Novel of Manners
Silver Fork School
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1940-1965. British nation struggled militarily and then spent a decade re-establishing itself.
Age of Instability
Age of Political Re-Establishment
Post Blitz Age
Diminishing Age
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1633-1680. Direct language paired with inventive imaginings, paradoxes, and conceits. EX. Donne
Transcendentalism
Enlightenment
Metaphysical Poets
Symbolists
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1930-1960. Impact of Great Depression; conformity, restraint, traditionalism. Ex. Eliot, Millay
Period of Conservatism
Diminishing Age
Period of Conformity and Criticism
Radicalism
