Am. Lit. Time Periods

Poems, journals, and letters are genres that were common in which period?

• Harlem Renaissance
• Colonial
• Realist
• Revolutionary

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This literary time period rejected Romanticism.

• Realism
• Revolutionary
• Colonial
• Modernism

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Which of the following authors became famous for his horror writing during the Romantic period?

• Walt Whitman
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Thomas Jefferson

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Religious writing was characteristic of which of the following time periods?

• Revolutionary
• Colonial
• Modernism
• Realism

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This author was prominent in the Revolutionary period for his persuasive writing.

• Jack London
• Thomas Paine
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Edgar Allen Poe

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Which of the following periods showed a break from tradition and included strong use of symbols?

• Harlem Renaissance
• Naturalism
• Romanticism
• Modernism

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Urban life and African-American culture were focuses of which time period?

• Harlem Renaissance
• Colonial
• Modernism
• Naturalism

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The Romantic period introduced an emphasis on ________________________________________

• guilt and sin.
• emotions, personality, and imagination.
• independence and self-sufficiency
• simple language and ordinary people

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" represented 

• exploration of God's role in life.
• A faithful representation of reality.
• an emphasis on imagination and emotion.
• the disillusionment of the American Dream.

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Which of the following authors became popular during the Harlem Renaissance?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Anne Bradstreet
• Langston Hughes

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