Literary movements

Question 1

Type the literary movement (in English) that matches this description. Mid–late 20th century onwards: playfulness, metafiction and scepticism about single 'grand' truths.

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Question 2

Which literary movement matches this description? From the mid 18th century: mystery, terror, the supernatural and gloomy settings such as ruined castles.

• A. Gothic
• B. Transcendentalism
• C. Harlem Renaissance
• D. Romanticism

Question 3

Which literary movement does this description most closely match? A novel takes place over a single day, jumping between characters' thoughts in long, unpunctuated passages and fragments of memory.

• A. Romanticism
• B. Gothic
• C. Modernism
• D. Harlem Renaissance

Question 4

Type the literary movement (in English) that matches this description. Mid–late 19th century: ordinary people and everyday life shown accurately and in detail.

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Question 5

Which literary movement matches this description? Mid–late 19th century: ordinary people and everyday life shown accurately and in detail.

• A. Postmodernism
• B. Gothic
• C. Harlem Renaissance
• D. Realism

Question 6

Which literary movement does this description most closely match? A novel's narrator interrupts the story to discuss with the reader how she might end it, offering three different endings.

• A. Realism
• B. Romanticism
• C. Harlem Renaissance
• D. Postmodernism

Question 7

Type the literary movement (in English) that matches this description. From the mid 18th century: mystery, terror, the supernatural and gloomy settings such as ruined castles.

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Question 8

Which literary movement matches this description? Mid–late 20th century onwards: playfulness, metafiction and scepticism about single 'grand' truths.

• A. Transcendentalism
• B. Postmodernism
• C. Realism
• D. Gothic

Question 9

Which literary movement does this description most closely match? Poets in 1920s New York draw on jazz and blues rhythms to celebrate Black identity and protest injustice.

• A. Harlem Renaissance
• B. Postmodernism
• C. Romanticism
• D. Realism

Question 10

Type the literary movement (in English) that matches this description. Mid–late 19th century: ordinary people and everyday life shown accurately and in detail.

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Question 11

Which literary movement matches this description? Early 20th century: experiments with form, fragmented narratives and stream of consciousness.

• A. Romanticism
• B. Harlem Renaissance
• C. Postmodernism
• D. Modernism

Question 12

Which literary movement does this description most closely match? A novel's narrator interrupts the story to discuss with the reader how she might end it, offering three different endings.

• A. Realism
• B. Harlem Renaissance
• C. Postmodernism
• D. Modernism

Question 13

Type the literary movement (in English) that matches this description. 1830s–1840s New England: intuition, self-reliance and the spiritual value of nature.

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Question 14

Which literary movement matches this description? Late 18th–mid 19th century: emotion, imagination, nature and the individual over reason and convention.

• A. Gothic
• B. Harlem Renaissance
• C. Modernism
• D. Romanticism

Question 15

Which literary movement does this description most closely match? A novel takes place over a single day, jumping between characters' thoughts in long, unpunctuated passages and fragments of memory.

• A. Romanticism
• B. Gothic
• C. Modernism
• D. Postmodernism

Question 16

Type the literary movement (in English) that matches this description. 1830s–1840s New England: intuition, self-reliance and the spiritual value of nature.

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