Literary movements

Question 1

Which literary movement matches this description? 1920s–1930s: a flowering of African American literature, music and art centred in Harlem, New York.

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

Question 2

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

Question 3

Type the literary movement (in English) that matches this description. Early 20th century: experiments with form, fragmented narratives and stream of consciousness.

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Question 4

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

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

Question 5

Which literary movement does this description most closely match? An essayist lives alone in a cabin by a pond for two years, arguing that simple living close to nature reveals deeper truths.

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

Question 6

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 7

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

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

Question 8

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. Romanticism
• B. Transcendentalism
• C. Gothic
• D. Postmodernism

Question 9

Type the literary movement (in English) that matches this description. 1920s–1930s: a flowering of African American literature, music and art centred in Harlem, New York.

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Question 10

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

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

Question 11

Which literary movement does this description most closely match? A novel follows a provincial doctor's money worries, unhappy marriage and daily routine in careful, unromantic detail.

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

Question 12

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 13

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

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

Question 14

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. Modernism
• B. Romanticism
• C. Postmodernism
• D. Transcendentalism

Question 15

Type the literary movement (in English) that matches this description. 1920s–1930s: a flowering of African American literature, music and art centred in Harlem, New York.

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Question 16

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

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