Rl.11-12.9

Which of the following are romantic era works?

• The Scarlet Letter

• Twilight

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Walden was written by _____

Match the following works to their authors

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• "I heard a Fly buzz—when I died"

• Emily Dickinson

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• Louisa May Alcott

• Little Women

• Mark Twain

• The Great Gatsby

• Arthur Miller

• The Death of a Salesman

What is a common feature of both The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye?

Answer explanation

Both novels are informally narrated by a young man.

______ was a fire and brimstone preacher who wrote and preached Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

• Jonathan Edwards

• Henry David Thoreau

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Walt Whitman

What is one difference of the depiction of depression in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye?

Answer explanation

In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden's depression and subsequent hospitalization are more implied, while in The Bell Jar, Esther Greenwood recounts her symptoms and treatment in detail for the audience.

Which of the following is not a poem by Walt Whitman?

• I Hear America Singing

• A Noiseless, Patient Spider

• Song of Myself

• The Road not Taken

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, William Cullen Bryant, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. were all ____ poets.

Match the following authors to their eras of literature

• Romantic

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Modernism

• Jack London

• Naturalism

• John Steinbeck

Who is the protagonist of A Farewell to Arms?

• Frederic Henry

• John Yossarian

• Billy Pilgrim