ISMS (terms on the short story test)

literary movement that emphasizes internal emotions, external nature, and the use of imagination.

• gothic literature

• naturalism

• romanticism

• idealism

literary psychological horror, involving perhaps an atmosphere of mystery, gloom, violence

• realism

• Gothic literature

• myth

• pragmatism

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"A Rose for Emily" is an example of

• myth

• Southern Gothic

• romanticism

• surrealism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

"The Metamorphosis" uses what style?

• surrealism

• determinism

• fatalism

• nihilism

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

belief in the dignity, the perfectibility of man

• realism

• impressionism

• morals

• idealism

Which story uses a stream of consciousness technique?

• A Rose for Emily

• A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

• The Lottery

• The Tell-Tale Heart

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

to think and to act in the light of things as they are

• pragmatism

• realism

• nihilism

• existentialism

Chekhov is known as the father of modern literary ...

• existentialism

• impressionism

• stoicism

• absurdism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

when an author centers his story/attention on the character's mental life rather than trying to interpret them

• idealism

• stream of consciousness

• impressionsim

• pragmatism

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

pragmatism

• no conscious effort to distort reality

• life as it really is

• man's unimportance in an indifferent universe

• ideas have their value only in terms of their practical consequences