American Literary Time Periods

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This Literary Time Period spans from the 1950's to today
Naturalism
Realism
Modernism
Post-Modernism
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This literary time period will ALWAYS include a reference to scripture, God, or religion
Transcendentalism
Puritanism
Modernism
Rationalism
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CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
These writers viewed death as an escape from problems.
Romantics
Transcendentalists
Puritans
Post-Modernists
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.7
CCSS.RI.11-12.7
CCSS.RL.11-12.7
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.7
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This literature was passed down mainly orally
Rationalism
Puratinism
Native American
Modernist
Tags
CCSS.RL.4.9
CCSS.RL.8.9
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Believe that both nature and people hold the divine within themselves
Harlem Renaissance
Modernism
Transcendentalism
Puritanism
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This literary time period sought to display life as it really was without all the frills and metaphors
Realism
Rationalism
Modernism
Harlem Renaissance
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Another name for "The Enlightenment"
Puritanism
Transcendentalism
Modernism
Rationalism
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
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