Literary Periods

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 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.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RI.K.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 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.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.8.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 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.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 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.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RI.K.6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 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
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CCSS.RL.11-12.11
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.5
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
True or False? The Postmodern Period occurred after the Modern Period.
True
False
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 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
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CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
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