Humanities

Question 1

Existentialism

Answer 1

Camus, Sartre

Question 2

Classicism

Answer 2

Artistic or literary movement that is aesthetically based on the Ancient Greeks or Romans

Question 3

blank verse

Answer 3

non-rhyming verse consisting of 10-syllable lines

Question 4

canto

Answer 4

A subdivision of an epic poem

Question 5

lost generation

Answer 5

Expatriate writers and artists living in Paris in the 1920’s. Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Fitzgerald

Question 6

Modernism

Answer 6

High intellectual movement whose goal was the examination of pure art. Pound, Stein, Woolf.

Question 7

Restoration

Answer 7

The period of intensely active literary and artistic activity in England 1660-1688 when Charles II returned to the throne (Dryden)

Question 8

Romantic movement

Answer 8

Predominantly English movement in the 19th century whose basic belief was that passion should supercede logic and whose main opposition was Classicism. Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron

Question 9

stream of consciousness

Answer 9

Joyce, Woolf

Question 10

Transcendentalism

Answer 10

American movement in which insight and experience too precedence over logic and reason and that held the belief that all things coexist in nature. Emerson, Thoreau.

Question 11

Victorian Age

Answer 11

19th century England, height of the British industrial revolution. Rigid social manners. Dickens, Hardy.