Literary Periods

Which literary period features an exploration of Black culture and identity in the United States, a celebration of musical motif, and an emphasis on social commentary?

• Realism

• Modernism

• Harlem Renaissance

• Renaissance

Which literary period featured a focus and commentary on the working class experience?

• Realism

• Modernism

• Classical

• Postmodernism

Which of the following literary periods spanned from 3000 BC - 500 AD?

• Renaissance

• Medieval

• Classical

• Realism

Which literary period features settings that are ordinary, characters that are normal, everyday people, and focuses on everyday life?

• Romanticism

• Realism

• Modernism

• Postmodernism

Which literary period was influenced greatly by World War I?

• Gothic

• Realism

• Postmodernism

• Modernism

Which literary period features moral allegories and allusions to Christianity, lyric poetry, and chivalric romances?

• Classical

• Romanticism

• Medieval

• Enlightenment

Which literary period features allusions to mythology and an emphasis on respect for the natural world?

• Renaissance

• Modernism

• Classical

• Romanticism

All of these types of writing were popular during the classical period except

• historical fiction novels

• epic poems

• plays

• philosophical texts

During this period people began to explore new ways of writing and broke from traditional forms

• contemporary

• modern

• romantic

• colonial

This period of literature includes all time after WW2

• contemporary

• modern

• romantic

• colonial