Literary Movements and Devices Quiz

What defines the Renaissance literary movement?

• Revival of classical ideals

• Technological utopias

• Emphasis on humanism

• Cynical irony

• Symbolic absurdity

What literary devices are common in Pope's works?

• Heroic couplets

• Dystopian form

• Stream of consciousness

• Satire

• Free verse

What are the stylistic traits of D.H. Lawrence?

• Sensuality

• Natural symbolism

• Allegorical mythology

• Victorian decorum

• Religious epics

Which characters appear in The Canterbury Tales?

• The Pardoner

• Sherlock Holmes

• The Knight

• Frankenstein

• The Count of Monte Cristo

Which two works were written by William Wordsworth?

• She Walks in Beauty

• Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

• Don Juan

• The Prelude

What were common features of Anglo-Saxon literature?

• Oral tradition

• Feminist critique

• Heroic themes

• Psychological realism

• Free verse

What type of work is Shakespeare's Macbeth?

• Essay

• Play

• Tragedy

• Satirical poem

• Gothic novel

Who were part of the Romantic literary movement?

• T.S. Eliot

• Daniel Defoe

• Jane Austen

• Lord Byron

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What themes are common in Victorian novels?

• Mythical fantasy

• Social reform

• Industrialization

• Experimental form

• Surrealism

Who wrote The Importance of Being Earnest?

• George Bernard Shaw

• William Congreve

• Alexander Pope

• An Irish author

• Oscar Wilde