Literary Time Periods Review

Realists wanted most to:

• Entertain people with romance
• Portray life as it actually is
• Forget the troubles of war
• Create fantastic new realities

Which of these events had the biggest effect on the Modernists?

• World War I
• The Industrial Revolution
• The Thirteenth Amandment
• Manifest Destiny

Romanticism was characterized by a focus on all of the following except:

• Imagination
• The Natural World
• Rational Logic
• Emotions

The moral or message readers should learn from the story  (Does the character learn something or change?  How is conflict resolved?)

• Climax
• Key Detail
• Conflict
• Theme

Which of these events had the biggest effect on the Modernists?

• World War I
• The Industrial Revolution
• The Thirteenth Amandment
• Manifest Destiny

These people emphasized the Bible as a sole expression of God's will

• Native Americans
• Puritans
• Romantics 
• Realists

In this literary period stories were myths, legends, or folk tales explaining morals

• Puritan Era
• Romanticism Era
• Native American Era
• Realism

Romantics rejected rational thought because they believed:

• Logical thought was not possible
• Science was not fully developed
• No respected writers were rationalists
• Imagination and emotion yielded higher truths

What event had the biggest effect on Realist writers?

• Invention of the telegraph
• Growth of the newspaper
• The Civil War
• Invention of the steamship

Realists wanted most to:

• Entertain people with romance
• Portray life as it actually is
• Forget the troubles of war
• Create fantastic new realities