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Primary characteristic of which literary movement that was a rejection of tradition and focused on individual experimentation?

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Literary Modernism

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These writers were a part of which literary movement:
D.H. Lawrence
Joseph Conrad
Ezra Pound
Gertrude Stein
Katherine Mansfield
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Literary Modernism

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Which literary modernist writer was said to have mastered stream of consciousness?

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Gertrude Steine

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Which writer focused on social concerns of the modernist movement, features a recurring theme of a lower class man with an upper class woman, publisher Penguin wne to court to publish the full content of Lady Chatterly’s lover?

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D. H. Lawrence

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Which modernist author wrote:
Lady Chatterly’s Lover
Sons and Lovers (first major book in 1913)
Women in Love
The Rainbow (first to be condemned for indecency)

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D.H. Lawrence

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Which modernist author was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, spoke Polish, French, and English, was considered a precursor to literary modernism, and most of his characters tended to die?

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Joseph Conrad

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Which modernist author wrote:
Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim

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Joseph Conrad

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Who wrote and what was an epic poem about the fall of mankind and was considered to be the most lasting work of poetry?

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John Milton’s Paradise Lost

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Who wrote and what was the most celebrated and lasting piece of prose and was an attack on censorship?

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John Milton’s Areopagitica

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Which playwright was a part of the English Renaissance and wrote The Alchemist?

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Ben Jonson

The Alchemist as a comedy about the lengths people will go for material things

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British literature written between 1837-1901
Influenced by explosive population growth, technological innovations, advancements in science, the Industrial Revolution, and poor working conditions?

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Victorian Literature

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How did Victorian poems differ from literature of the day?

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They had a strong desire to connect with the past, skepticism about religion, and a stronger sense of humor

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Famous Victorian poets?

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Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Emily and Charlotte Bronte

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Which Victorian poet was known for a common theme of good people coping with bad circumstances, most of his work was published as serials in magazines, early life mirrored novels, as a child family was thrown into debtor’s prison and he had to work in a factory, used satire in his work related to class and poverty?

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Charles Dickens

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Which Victorian writer wrote:
Oliver Twist
David Copperfield
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

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Charles Dickens

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Which Victorian author wrote under a man’s name but was actually a woman and was known for using metaphors about egotism?

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George Eliot

Aka Mary Ann Evans

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Which Victorian author wrote under the pen name George Eliot so her work would be taken seriously?

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Mary Ann Evans

Middlemarch

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Which Victorian author wrote Middlemarch?

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George Eliot aka Mary Ann Evans

Middlemarch presents marriage as a problem not a solution

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Chaucer, Dante, and Sir Thomas Malory, and Beowulf are part of what genre?

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Medieval Literature

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Which medieval author wrote: 
The Canterbury Tales
The Knights Tale
The Wife of Bath
The Miller's Tale
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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Which medieval writer wrote The Divine Comedy?

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Dante

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What was the first novel written in English?

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Le Morte de Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory

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Which medieval author wrote the most comprehensive Arthurian legend and was the first novel in English?

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Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte de Arthur

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Which Victorian author wrote Jane Eyre?

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Charlotte Bronte

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Which Victorian author wrote Wuthering heights?

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Emily Bronte

26
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Characteristics of literary movement:

equality, individualism, self-reliance, integrity, and optimism

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Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau

27
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Which authors were known for transcendentalism?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Throeau

28
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Which American novelist was known for experimental writing about fundamentals of nature known as the metaphysical? “wordy”

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Herman Melville

29
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Which American novelist wrote:
Mody Dick
Typee: A peep at Polynesian Life
Bartleby, the Scriverner: A Story of Wall Street

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Herman Melville

metaphysical

30
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Which American novelist was influenced by Romantic period, poems focused on the common man, was known as a fireside poet and lyric poems about patriotism, everyday activities and no politics?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

31
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Which American novelist wrote:

Paul Revere’s Ride

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

32
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Which American novelist was a transcendentalist, lived at Ralph Waldo Emerson’s cabin, and supported himself by farming a bean field while he wrote?

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Henry David Thoreau

33
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Which American novelist wrote:
Walden, or Life in the Woods
Cape Cod
Civil Disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau

34
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Which American novelist was famous for short stories, fiction was inspired by real-life experiences and won a Nobel prize?

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Ernest Hemingway

35
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Which American novelist wrote:
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
Short stories: 
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Hills Like White Elephants
The Killers
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Ernest Hemingway

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Which American novelist wrote a story that was the first protest piece where the author uses a fictional story to create great influence?

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

37
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Which novel had a common theme where both Eliza and Tom have an unrelenting faith in God which molds their characters and is the foundation for compassionate response to those who wanted to do them harm in the book?

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

38
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Which American author was an abolitionist, was considered the father of free verse and was “America’s poet”?

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Walt Whitman

39
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Which American author wrote
Leaves of Grass
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom (elegy to Lincoln)

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Walt Whitman

40
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Which American author wrote short stories to financially support himself, became an alcoholic, wrote about the “roaring twenties”, and had tumultuous marriage to Zelda?

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

41
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Which American author wrote:
The Great Gatsby (Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby)
The Side of Paradise

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

42
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Which American author wrote with accurate Southern speech, created a fictional county called Yoknapatwpha County, and went to Hollywood to write screenplays because he needed the money?

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William Faulkner

43
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Which American author and screenwriter wrote:
The Sound and the Fury
As I Lay Dying
Absalom, Absalom!

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William Faulkner

44
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Which American author wrote about Holden Caulfield who thinks most people are phonies and is considered a coming of age novel?

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J.D. Salinger

45
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Who wrote The Catcher in the Rye?

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J.D. Salinger

46
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What did Holden Caulfield think a catcher in the rye was in J.D. Salingers book?

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He thinks they would ‘catch’ children’s bodies in the rye field to save them.

47
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Which American author used allegory symbolism, was known for extremely long drawn out sentences, was considered a Dark Romantic along with Edgar Allan Poe, and changed his last name to distance himself from his Puritan ancestor who was a judge during Salem witch trials?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

48
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Which American author and Dark Romantic wrote:
The Scarlet Letter
The House of Seven Gables

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

49
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Which American author was a transcendentalist, argued for self-reliance, and wanted people to act as individuals in order to positively affect society?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

50
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Which American author and transcendentalist wrote:
Self Reliance
The Over-Soul
Circles
Experience 
The Poet
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

51
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Which American author’s father died when he was 12 and his family became destitute?

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Mark Twain

52
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Which American author wrote:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Mark Twain aka Samual Longhorne Clemens

53
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Which American author wrote about the Great Depression?

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John Steinbeck

54
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Which American author wrote: 
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
East of Eden
Travels with Charley - non fiction account of journey across America with his dog
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John Steinbeck

55
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Tom Joad is destined to be a labor leader in which American novel?

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John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath

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