Advanced Placement and American Literature classes need to take this quiz by Friday, January 15, 2009. You may use your notes from class presentations. All questions are based on the presentations of your classmates. Please turn in a copy of your completion certificate to Ms. Heiner by Friday.
An examination of life as it actually is.
A romantic portrayal of life.
An examination of the countryside versus the city.
A sad and depressing view of reality.
A type of writing that examines nothing but death.
Postmodern; end slavery.
Colonial; end patriotism for England.
Modernism; end individualism.
Renaissance; end sexism.
Romanticism; define themselves and their writing style as independent from England.
Transcendentalism, Symbolism, and Dark Romanticism.
The Harlem Renaissance, The Lost Generation, and Confessional Poetry.
There were no movements during the modernist time period.
Symbolism, Naturalism, and Postmodernism.
Realism, Romanticism, and the American Renaissance.
The Puritans
The Catholics
The Pilgrims
The Anglo Saxons
Pagan Rituals
The first romance novel.
The Declaration of Independence.
Confessional poetry.
The Heiner Papers
The great American novel.
Nature as a source of secular and spiritual knowledge, emotion as truth, and exploration of the self.
Scientific exploration.
Love and romance.
The philosophy of how to run a new country.
The future.
Black humor; metafiction.
Metaphors; verbal irony.
Hyperbole; Personification.
Symbolism; Imagery.
Biblical Allusion; Mythical Allusion.
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