Claude McKay
Identify the author of the poem “America”
Edward Arlington Robinson
John Keats
Walt Whitman
Claude McKay Identify the author of the poem “I Saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing”
Edward Arlington Robinson
John Keats
Walt Whitman
Claude McKay
Identify the author of the poem “To Autumn”
Edward Arlington Robinson
John Keats
Walt Whitman
Claude McKay
Identify the author of the story “The lottery”
Kate Chopin
Shirley Jackson
Amy Tan
Anton Chekhov
Identify the author of the story “Two kinds”
Kate Chopin
Shirley Jackson
Amy Tan
Anton Chekhov
Similarity of final sounds in two or more words
Rhyme
Oxymoron
Alliteration
Simile
phrase that uses a comparison to describe
Rhyme
Oxymoron
Alliteration
Simile A technique, that makes use of repeated sounds at the beginning of grouped words; used in poetry
Rhyme
Oxymoron
Alliteration
Simile
In his poem “To autumn” John Keats visualizes the season autumn as ….
A woman
A young man
An old lady
A toddler
“Two Kinds” by Amy Tan is about …
Racial discrimination
Old traditions
Mother-daughter relationship
Adultery
What is the genre name that encompasses facts that can be proven and checked and is true?
Non-fiction
Fiction
Fantasy
Historical fiction
What genre of fiction is written about strange and unusual characters revolving around the setting, characters, and plot?
Non-fiction
Fiction
Fantasy
Historical fiction
"Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again ..." (Paul Simon, The Sounds of Silence). This is an example of:
Alliteration
Anaphora
Personification
Motif
The correct order of the plot diagram is...
Rising action, exposition, climax, falling action, resolution/denouement
An opposing character to the central character of the work
A supporting character to the central character of the work
Point of view is the element of the work that analyzes ….
How the story is narrated
What the main idea is
What the author wants to discuss
How the plot is ordered
Which of the following is not a representative of the Age of Reason?
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
John Smith
Choose the correct time order of periods in American Literature
Native American, Colonial/ Puritanism, Revolutionist/ Nationalism/Age of Reason , Romantic, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, Harlem Renaissance
Colonial/ Puritanism, Native American, Revolutionist/ Nationalism/ Age of Reason, Romantic, Realism, Naturalism, Harlem Renaissance, Modernism
Native American, Colonial/ Puritanism, Revolutionist/ Nationalism/Age of Reason, Romantic, Realism, Modernism, Harlem Renaissance, Naturalism
Which literary movement consists of political and philosophical writings about reason and common sense.
Puritannism
Realism
Enlightenment
Romanticism
Climax of the novel “American tragedy” starts when …
Clyde kills his lover
Clyde receives a letter from his uncle
Roberta’s body is found
Clyde is executed
“Jennie Gerhardt” is written by …
Theodore Dreiser
Stephen Crane
Mark Twain
b. William Dean Howells
158. At the end of the novel “Uncle Tom’s cabin” ….
Tom dies, Eliza becomes free
Both Tom and Eliza become free
Both tom and Eliza die
Tom dies, Eliza returns to Mr. Shelby’s plantation
Realism opposed …
Idealism
Nominalism
Pragmatism
A and b
Representatives of American realism …
Henry James, Rebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett
Anton Chekhov, George Eliot, Mark Twain
The language used in books by realists was
Straightforward and comic
Satiric and overly poetic
Humoristic and poetic
Satiric and wordy
Mark twain was born in ….
In 1835, in Mississippi
In 1835, in Florida
In 1835, in Kentucky
In 1835, in Connecticut
Mark Twain is the pseudonym of …
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Gustave Flaubert
Stephen Crane
Guy de Maupassant
During the Civil War ….
South was against slavery because of the religious beliefs of the Southerners
South supported antislavery views because of rapid industrialization
North supported slavery because almost free workforce was the major need
North did not support slavery any more as the rapid industrialization made cheap labor less economic necessity
Realism is an artistic movement begun .
in the 19th century in France
in the 18th century in Italy
in the 19th century Italy
in the 18th century France
… tried to represent events and social conditions as they actually are, without idealization.
Puritans
Romanticist
Realist
Enlighteners
…. show us rather than tell us.
Puritans
Romanticists
Realists
Enlighteners
“Maggie: A Girl of the Streets” is written by …
Theodore Dreiser
Stephen Crane
Mark Twain
William Dean Howells
The novel ‘American tragedy” is written by …
Theodore Dreiser
Thomas Paine
Mark Twain
William Dean Howells
The protagonist of the novel “Gennie Gerhard”
is a poor girl, eldest of six children
is killed by her lover
leaves for a city seeking better life
manages to escape from slavery
Which of the following was not written by Tony Morrison?
Song of Solomon
The Bluest Eyes
Paradise
Carrie
The novel “Moby Dick” was written by …
Herman Melville
Daniel Defoe
Mark Twain
… is a dystopian vision of a future where television dominates society and books are illegal
Fahrenheit 451
Carrie
Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines
The Illustrated Man
Which literary movement is described in the following definition?
“Coinciding with the European movement, it rebelled against classicism, and focused on individualism, idealism, imagination, and nature.”
Puritanism
Age of reason
Abolitionism
Romanticism
A group of people who came to America in the beginning of the 17th century in order to have freedom of religion called themselves ….
Explorers
Enlighteners
Puritans
Romanticists
“Uncle Tom’s cabin” was written by …
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Calvin Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Native American literature was based on Oral tradition and fiction
Written form and fiction
Oral tradition and non-fiction
Written form and non-fiction
The protagonist of the novel “Uncle Tom’s cabin” is….
An old black man whose name is Tom
A middle-aged slaveholder whose name is Mr. Legree
A young black man whose name is George
A middle-aged black man whose name is Tom
Plot of the work is …
Sequence of events
Beginning of the conflict
Solution of the conflict
Climax of the work
Age of exploration is characterized with the examples of writings, such as …
Letters, diaries, journals
Letters, poems, fictional stories
Novels about the first settlers and autobiographies, letters
Novels about the native inhabitants and autobiographies, personal accounts
The novel ‘American tragedy” is written by …
Theodore Dreiser
Thomas Paine
Mark Twain
William Dean Howells
The protagonist of the novel “Gennie Gerhard”
is a poor girl, eldest of six children
is killed by her lover
leaves for a city seeking better life
manages to escape from slavery
Which of the following was not written by Tony Morrison?
Song of Solomon
The Bluest Eyes
Paradise
Carrie
The novel “Moby Dick” was written by …
Herman Melville
Daniel Defoe
Jack London
Mark Twain
… is a dystopian vision of a future where television dominates society and books are illegal
Fahrenheit 451
Carrie
Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines
The Illustrated Man
The only novel written by Jerome David Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
The Catcher in the Rye
Murders in Rue Morgue
Nine Stories
The term Beat generation was first coined by …
Jack Kerouac
Jerome David Salinger
Allen Ginsberg
Arthur Miller
Which of the following is not written by Benjamin Franklin?
Autobiography
Common sense
Poor Richard’s Almanacs
Silence Do goods
The biggest Native American tribe was
Apache
Sioux
Cherokee
Cheyenne
Antagonist is …
A central character of the work
A second central character of the work
An opposing character to the central character of the work
A supporting character to the central character of the work
Point of view is the element of the work that analyzes ….
How the story is narrated
What the main idea is
What the author wants to discuss
How the plot is ordered
Which of the following is not a representative of the Age of Reason?
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
John Smith
Choose the correct time order of periods in American Literature
Native American, Colonial/ Puritanism, Revolutionist/ Nationalism/Age of Reason , Romantic, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, Harlem Renaissance
Colonial/ Puritanism, Native American, Revolutionist/ Nationalism/ Age of Reason, Romantic, Realism, Naturalism, Harlem Renaissance, Modernism
Native American, Colonial/ Puritanism, Revolutionist/ Nationalism/Age of Reason, Romantic, Realism, Modernism, Harlem Renaissance, Naturalism
“Uncle Tom’s cabin” is an example of ..
American Romantic literature
American Puritan literature
American Abolitionist literature
American Enlightenment literature
“Underground railroad” is a…
Secret organization that supported runaway slaves
Secret organization that supported slaveholders
Secret organization that supported fugitive slave writers
Secret organization that helped runaway slaves to return to their masters’
“Uncle Tom’s cabin” was published in
1851
1852
1853
1854
“Uncle Tom’s cabin” is an example of ..
American Romantic literature
American Puritan literature
American Abolitionist literature
American Enlightenment literature
Which of the following is not written by Benjamin Franklin?
Autobiography
Common sense
Poor Richard’s Almanacs
Silence Do goods
Antagonist is …
A central character of the work
A second central character of the work
An opposing character to the central character of the work
A supporting character to the central character of the work
Which literary movement is described in the following definition?
“It rebelled against Romanticism and Neoclassicism and promoted facts over intellectual or emotional reasoning.”
Puritannism
Realism
Enlightenment
Romanticism
. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) is written by
Ray Bradbury
Stephen king
Edgar Allan Poe
Isaac Asimov
The biggest Native American tribe was
Apache