Lit

This literary time period rejected Romanticism.

• Realism

• Revolutionary

• Colonial

• Modernism

Which of the following authors became famous for his horror writing during the Romantic period?

• Walt Whitman

• Edgar Allen Poe

• Kurt Vonnegut

• Thomas Jefferson

This author was prominent in the Revolutionary period for his persuasive writing.

• Jack London

• Thomas Paine

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Edgar Allen Poe

Which of the following periods showed a break from tradition and included strong use of symbols?

• Harlem Renaissance

• Naturalism

• Romanticism

• Modernism

Urban life and African-American culture were focuses of which time period?

• Harlem Renaissance

• Colonial

• Modernism

• Naturalism

The Romantic period introduced an emphasis on ________________________________________

• guilt and sin.

• emotions, personality, and imagination.

• independence and self-sufficiency

• simple language and ordinary people

F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" represented 

• exploration of God's role in life.

• A faithful representation of reality.

• an emphasis on imagination and emotion.

• the disillusionment of the American Dream.

Which of the following authors became popular during the Harlem Renaissance?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Anne Bradstreet

• Langston Hughes

What is 
character thinks one thing is true, but the reader knows that the thing is not true.

• dramatic irony

• flashback

• situational irony

• atmosphere

What is 
a recurring image, word, phrase, represented object or action that tends to unify the literary work or that may be elaborated into a more general theme.  Also, it can be a situation, incident, idea, image, or character type that is found in many different literary works, folktales, or myths.

• motif

• allegory

• ambiguity

• symbol