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American Literary Periods

Authored by Sarah Williams

English

11th Grade

CCSS covered

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American Literary Periods
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following authors became famous for his horror writing during the Romantic period?

Walt Whitman

Edgar Allen Poe

Kurt Vonnegut

Thomas Jefferson

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Religious writing was characteristic of which of the following time periods?

Revolutionary

Colonial

Modernism

Realism

Tags

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

1 min • 1 pt

This author was prominent in the Revolutionary period for his persuasive writing.

Jack London

Thomas Paine

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Edgar Allen Poe

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following periods showed a break from tradition and included strong use of symbols?

Harlem Renaissance

Naturalism

Romanticism

Modernism

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Urban life and African-American culture were focuses of which time period?

Harlem Renaissance

Colonial

Modernism

Naturalism

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following authors became popular during the Harlem Renaissance?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Anne Bradstreet

Langston Hughes

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

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Poems, journals, and letters are genres that were common in which period?

Harlem Renaissance

Colonial

Realist

Revolutionary

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

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