Literary Periods & Genres Quiz

Literary Periods & Genres Quiz

University

8 Qs

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Literary Periods & Genres Quiz

Literary Periods & Genres Quiz

Assessment

Quiz

English

University

Medium

CCSS
RL.9-10.9, RL.11-12.9, RL.8.4

+8

Standards-aligned

Created by

Bryanne Mahon

Used 10+ times

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8 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

During which period did Greek epic poems like "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" originate?

Renaissance and Reformation Period

Patristic Period

Classical Period

The Modern Period

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which period is marked by the rise of a diversity in black writers such as Baldwin and Ellison?

The Renaissance and Reformation

The Postmodern Period

The Romantic Period

The Modern Period

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which authors were popular during the Enlightenment period?

Sandra Cisneros, Langston Hughes

John Locke, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Jefferson

Oscar Wilde, Emily Dickinson

Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which period is marked by the intellectual movements of Aestheticism and 'the Decadence'? Free verse poets flourished!

The Renaissance and Reformation

The Victorian Period and the 19th Century

The Postmodern Period

The Romantic Period

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which period marked the rise of nature, the imagination, and individuality in England?

The Romantic period

The Victorian Period

The Enlightenment Period

The Postmodern Period

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This period includes authors like Yeats, Heaney, Auden, and Virginia Woolf.

The Modern Period

The Homeric Period

The Postmodern Period

The Renaissance and Reformation Period

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

True or False? The Postmodern Period occurred after the Modern Period.

True

False

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Writing in the Medieval Period included...

Viking sagas, Old English poems, theological works

intellectual backlash against Puritanism

Magical Realism

Sentimental writing, free verse poetry

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9