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