The Great American Novel

Which American Literary Movement included mostly letters, journals, and diaries?

• Native Americans
• Fireside Poets
• Early Settlers
• Enlightenment

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a prominent figure in what movement?

• Puritanism
• Transcendentalism
• Fireside Poets
• Harlem Renaissance

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Emerson and Thoreau were part of this philosophical movement.

• Pluralism
• Puritanism
• Modernism
• Transcendentalism

This movement emphasized inspiration and imagination and included authors such as Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe.

• Realism
• Regionalism
• Romanticism
• Contemporary

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What is the meaning of indigenous?

• native, original, aboriginal
• heinous, wicked, diabolical
• radiant, lustrous, shining
• amorous, passionate, affectionate

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Which movement highlighted techniques such as paradox, parody, unreliable narrator, and fragmentation; it also included authors such as Kurt Vonnegut?

• Post-Modernism
• Magical Realism
• Pluralism
• Enlisghtenment

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This Movement included a small group of authors, but had a big influence emphasizing bohemianism and non-conformity.

• Puritanism
• Enlightenment
• Beat Movement
• Romanticism

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In this movement details were important and in diction, natural language was sought after. One of the main authors of this period 1860-1914 is Mark Twain.

• Contemporary
• Pluralism
• Realism and Regionalism
• Beat Movement

This movement included the realization that "literature does not only need to come from dead white guys".

• Contemporary
• Beat Movement
• Pluralism
• Naturalism

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This movement was from 1620-1790 where society was dominated by rules and fear of sin and included authors such as Anne Bradstreet.

• Romanticism
• Magical Realism
• Pluralism
• Puritanism

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