Quiz Sep 5

Question 0

When did Puritanism take place?

Answer 0

1600-1800

Question 1

When did the Native American literary style take place?

Answer 1

40,000 - 20,000 B.C

Question 2

When did Rationalism take place?

Answer 2

1750-1800

Question 3

When did Romanticism take place?

Answer 3

1800-1860

Question 4

When did Transcendentalism take place

Answer 4

1840-1860

Question 5

When did Realism take place?

Answer 5

1850-1900

Question 6

When did Modernism take place?

Answer 6

1900-1950

Question 7

When did the Harlem Renaissance take place?

Answer 7

1920-1940

Question 8

When did the Contemporary period take place?

Answer 8

1950-present

Question 9

Native Americans

Answer 9

1. Oral literature: epic narratives, creation myths, stories, poems, songs.
2. Use stories to teach moral lessons and convey practical information about the natural world.
3. Deep respect for nature and animals
4. Cyclical world view
5. Figurative language/parallelism

Question 10

Puritanism

Answer 10

1. Wrote mostly diaries and histories, which expressed the connections between God an their everyday lives.
2. Sought to “purify” the Church of England by reforming to the simpler forms of worship and church organization described in the New Testament
3. Saw religion as a personal, inner experience.
4. Believed in original sin and “elect” who would be saved.
5. Used a plain style of writing

Question 11

Rationalism

Answer 11

1. Mostly comprised of philosophers, scientists, writing speeches and pamphlets.
2. Human beings can arrive at truth (God’s rules) by using deductive reasoning, rather than relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or intuition.

Question 12

Romanticism

Answer 12

1. Valued feeling, intuition, idealism, and inductive reasoning.
2. Placed faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination.
3. Shunned the artificiality of civilization and seek unspoiled nature as a path to spirituality.
4. Championed individual freedom and the worth of the individual.
5. Saw poetry as the highest expression of the imagination.
6. Dark Romantics: Used dark and supernatural themes/settings (Gothic style)

Question 13

Transcendentalism

Answer 13

1. Everything in the world, Including human beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul
2. People can use their intuition to behold God’s spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls.
3. Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to tradition

Question 14

Realism

Answer 14

1. Feelings of disillusionment
2. Common subjects; slums of rapidly growing cities, factories replacing farmlands, poor factory workers, corrupt politicians
3. Represented the manner and environment of everyday life and ordinary people as realistically as possible (regionalism)
4. Sought to explain behavior (psychologically/socially).

Question 15

Modernism

Answer 15

1. Sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the “American Dream”: the independence, self-reliant, individual will triumph.
2. Emphasis on bold experimentation in style and form over the traditional.
3. Interest in the inner workings of the human mind (ex. Stream of consciousness).

Question 16

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 16

1. Black cultural movement in Harlem, New York
2. Some poetry rhythms based on spirituals, and jazz, lyrics on the blues, and diction from the street talk of the ghettos
3. Other poetry used conventional lyrical forms

Question 17

Contemporary

Answer 17

1. Influenced by studies of media, language, and information technology
2. Sense that little is unique; culture endlessly duplicates and copies itself
3. New literary forms and techniques: works composed of only dialogue or combining fiction and nonfiction, experimenting with physical appearance of their work

Question 18

What are the other names of Rationalism?

Answer 18

“The Age of Reason”

“The Enlightenment”

Question 19

What is the other name for Transcendentalism

Answer 19

“The American Renaissance”

Question 20

What are the other names of the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 20

“The Jazz age”

“The Roaring 20s”

Question 21

What is the other name for the Contemporary period?

Answer 21

“Postmodernism”

Question 22

The narrator is a character in the story who can reveal only personal thoughts and feelings and what he or she sees is told by other characters. He cant tell us thoughts of other characters

Answer 22

First person

Question 23

The narrator is an outsider who can report only what he or she sees and hears. This narrator can tell is what is happening, but he cant tell us the thoughts of the characters

Answer 23

Third Person Objective

Question 24

the narrator is an outsider who sees into mind of one of the characters

Answer 24

Third Person Limited

Question 25

The narrator is all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one of the characters.

Answer 25

Third Person Omniscient

Question 26

__________ is the essence of fiction. It creates plot.

Answer 26

Conflict

Question 27

conflict that puts one person against another.

Answer 27

Man v. Man

Question 28

a run in with the forces of nature, On the one hand, it expresses the insignificance of a single human life in the cosmic scheme of things. On the other hand, it tests the limits of a person’s strength and will to leave

Answer 28

Man v. Nature

Question 29

The values and costums by which everyone else lives are being challenfed. The character may come to an ultimately end as a result of his or her own convictions. The character may, on the other hand, bring others around to a sympathetic point of view, or it may be decided that society was right after all

Answer 29

Man v. Society

Question 30

-Internal conflict. not all conflict involves other people. sometimes people are their own worst enemies. an internal conflict is a good test of a character’s values. does he give into temptation or rise above it? Does he demand the most from himself or settle for something less? Does he even bother to struggle? The internal conflicts of a character and how they are resolved are good clues to the character’s inner strength

Answer 30

Man v. Himself