🎓 Study Quiz - Modernism

1. Which genre of literature is typically written in verse?

• Poem
• Prose
• Graphic Novel
• Speech

2. What literary time period includes symbols of death, the supernatural and other dark imagery?

• Modernism
• American Gothic
• Transcendentalism
• Beat Poetry

3. Which of the following writers focused mainly on poetry? (Check all that apply.)

• Robert Frost
• William Cullen Bryant
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• T. S. Eliot

4. Which literary technique involves the repetition of certain sounds or letters?

• Simile
• Tone
• Alliteration
• Personification

5. Which of the following poems could be considered a modernist love letter to a certain place and time?

• "Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
• "Chicago" by Carl Sandberg
• "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
• "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" by Emily Dickinson

6. A comparison of two things that does not use the words "like" or "as" is called a:

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Imagery
• Theme

7. Which literary period reflected the hope, optimism and real-lfie experience of Americans in the early 20th century?

• Gothic
• Colonial American
• Modernism
• Post-Modernism

8. The writer of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was:

• Carl Sandberg
• Robert Frost
• Edgar Allan Poe
• T. S. Eliot

9. Which literary technique is used by a writer to create a "mental picture" for the reader?

• Personification
• Imagery
• Tone
• Allusion

10. The phrase "The highway was a buzzing hive of activity" could be considered an example of which three literary techniques?

• Personification
• Metaphor
• Imagery
• Theme