Literature

Question 1

English Renaissance

Answer 1

1. 14th-17th centuries
2. Rebirth began in Italy after the Dark ages or Middle Ages when there was a plague and now they had time to invent things and live again
3. Printing press, church reform (changes from Roman Catholicism to Protestantism), humanism, and theater

Question 2

Elizabethan Period

Answer 2

1. Was during the Renaissance
2. Brought about drama/theater
3. Human hierarchy that everyone has their place in society

Question 3

Neoclassicism

Answer 3

1. Late 16th century 17th-ish century
2. Admired the classics especially the Romans
3. Traditionalists who saw writing as an art and excellence could only be attained by studying writing. They studied closely the classics and imitated them
4. All about reason, judgement, focusing on man/mankind’s position/function in the world and relationship to God
5. Often used satire as a way to keep man perfect and in order

Question 4

Victorian Period

Answer 4

1. 1830-1900
2. Bridges romanticism and modernism
3. Lacked drama
4. Focused on Influence of theory of evolution, Movements of political and social change, concerned with Contemporary Social problems like effects of Industrial Revolution

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Question 5

Romanticism

Answer 5

1. 1700s to mid 19th century
2. Reaction to neoclassical period (an overemphasis on reason & no imagination)
3. Favored creativity, imagination, examined inner feelings, saw beauty in nature and ruins of past societies (wrote Gothic/horror novels)

Question 6

Modernism

Answer 6

1. Early part of 20th century after Victorian era
2. WWI occurred so a lot of focus on it
3. Break away from rules, traditions and norms
4. Fresh way at looking at mans place in the world
5. Experimented in form and style

Question 7

Postmodernism

Answer 7

1. Was after Modernism
2. During WWII
3. Parody, Unreliable narrators, Fragmentation, Feelings of cultural exhaustion, Irony, Protagonist create their own version of reality
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Question 8

Rationalism

Answer 8

1. Also called the age of reason or the enlightenment period

2. Depends on reason rather than feeling

Question 9

Realism

Answer 9

1. Mid 19th century
2. Portraying real life and write about regular folks living ordinary lives.
3. Shows us how even ordinary lives are meaningful

Question 10

Imagists

Answer 10

1. Early 20th century
2. Poets who wrote free verse, all about economy of language/matter of factness,
3. Sparked the modernism era

Question 11

New formalist

Answer 11

1. Late 20th century and early 21st cent

2. Movement in poetry return to metrical and rhymed verse

Question 12

Symbolist

Answer 12

1. Last two decades of 20th century
2. Focuses on moods, essence of life expressed exotic in morbid terms, transient (short time) sensations
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Question 13

Parnassian

Answer 13

1. Poetry

2. Wrote verse that emphasized metrical form and restricted emotion

Question 14

American regionalist

Answer 14

1. All about the setting
2. refers to fiction or poetry that focuses on specific features, such as dialect, customs, history, and landscape, of a particular region

DC History landscape of a region

Question 15

Hispanic writers

Answer 15

Often describes a tug of ancestral loyalties amid the bustle of modern life

Question 16

Asian writers

Answer 16

Mostly talked about the immigrant life here in America

Question 17

Young adult literature

Answer 17

1. Short and focuses on the main characters thoughts and actions that occur over a short period of time
2. Coming of age in society and their experiences and struggles

Question 18

Anglo Saxon/Old English Period

Answer 18

1. Poetry was German influenced, heroic and Christian. Form was alliterative, unrhymed, no lyric poetry
2. Prose was Latin influenced, reflects the influence of Latin-European culture, provides record of the founding/development of the church in England

Question 19

The Puritan Period

Answer 19

1. A lot of journals, diaries, letters, little fiction
2. Realistic writing, wrote direct to the point, writing had purpose, very instructive, an emphasis on religious themes (bible, church, God)

Question 20

Native American Literature

Answer 20

1. One of the first forms of American Literature
2. Oral myths about how the world was created, how mankind and culture emerged.
3. Common theme: dangers of surrendering to indigenous cultural values and traditions as a result of contact with European civilization
4. Respect for nature and animals

Question 21

Revolutionary Period

Answer 21

Most writing was political, meant to be public: (newspapers, pamphlets, magazines, and speeches), sought independence.
3. No American novels or plays of importance had been written.

Question 22

American Renaissance

Answer 22

1. Everything in the world is a reflection of the Divine Soul
2. Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and conformity to tradition

Question 23

National period

Answer 23

Imaginative literature began to emerge such as poetry, essays and sketches

Question 24

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 24

1. Black cultural movement in Harlem

Question 25

African Literature

Answer 25

1. Divided into three categories: precolonial, colonial and postcolonial.
2. Precolonial mostly oral narratives sometimes accompanied by music and center around the trickster figure.
3. Colonial examines the horrors of slavery and the slave trade, revolting against colonialism and drawing inspiration from Africa’s past.
4. Postcolonial focuses on the clash between indigenous and colonial cultures, expressing hope for Africa’s future.

Question 26

Century

Answer 26

Covers 100 years so if it’s the 19th century it’s 19x100=1900 so the 19th century covers 1800-1900