wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

NEW

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Avant-garde Movements Quiz

Total questions: 9

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Complete the sentence: The avant-garde artistic trends originated in Europe and America in ________, during the First and the Second World War (1914-1939).

a)

the nineteenth century

b)

the twentieth century

c)

the twentyfirst century

2.

Connect the avant-garde movements with their corresponding characteristic or fragment: Expressionism

a)

This movement was born in Germany in 1905 and expresses that art arises from the emotional and spiritual experience of reality.

b)

Works include elements of the subconscious world, the unconscious, the dreams and the imagination.

c)

Based on the worship of the metaphor as a primary element of literary expression.

d)

The representative writer of this 'ism' is the Chilean Vicente Huidobro.

e)

The Mexican movement exalts the dynamic nature of the modern world.

3.

Connect the avant-garde movements with their corresponding characteristic or fragment: Futurism

a)

The poem will resemble you.

b)

The Mexican movement exalts the dynamic nature of the modern world.

c)

We want to exalt movements of aggression, feverish sleeplessness, the double march, the perilous leap, the slap and the blow with the fist.

d)

The representative writer of this 'ism' is the Chilean Vicente Huidobro.

e)

Based on the worship of the metaphor as a primary element of literary expression.

4.

Connect the avant-garde movements with their corresponding characteristic or fragment: Dadaism

a)

The poem will resemble you.

And there you are—an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd (Tzara quoted by Lewis, 2007).

b)

The representative writer of this 'ism' is the Chilean Vicente Huidobro.

c)

Works include elements of the subconscious world, the unconscious, the dreams and the imagination.

d)

The Mexican movement exalts the dynamic nature of the modern world.

5.

Connect the avant-garde movements with their corresponding characteristic or fragment: Surrealism

a)

The poem will resemble you.

b)

Works include elements of the subconscious world, the unconscious, the dreams and the imagination.

c)

Based on the worship of the metaphor as a primary element of literary expression.

d)

The Mexican movement exalts the dynamic nature of the modern world.

e)

Works include elements of the subconscious world, the unconscious, the dreams and the imagination.

6.

Connect the avant-garde movements with their corresponding characteristic or fragment: Ultraist

a)

Based on the worship of the metaphor as a primary element of literary expression.

b)

The poem will resemble you.

c)

Works include elements of the subconscious world, the unconscious, the dreams and the imagination.

d)

Based on the worship of the metaphor as a primary element of literary expression.

e)

The representative writer of this 'ism' is the Chilean Vicente Huidobro.

7.

Connect the avant-garde movements with their corresponding characteristic or fragment: Creationism

a)

The poem will resemble you.

b)

The representative writer of this "ism" is the Chilean Vicente Huidobro.

c)

The representative writer of this 'ism' is the Chilean Vicente Huidobro.

d)

Based on the worship of the metaphor as a primary element of literary expression.

e)

Works include elements of the subconscious world, the unconscious, the dreams and the imagination.

8.

Connect the avant-garde movements with their corresponding characteristic or fragment: Stridentism

a)

Works include elements of the subconscious world, the unconscious, the dreams and the imagination.

b)

The Mexican movement exalts the dynamic nature of the modern world.

c)

Based on the worship of the metaphor as a primary element of literary expression.

d)

The poem will resemble you.

e)

The representative writer of this 'ism' is the Chilean Vicente Huidobro.

9.

Connect the avant-garde movements with their corresponding characteristic or fragment: De Stijl

a)

The duality between prose and verse cannot continue to exist. The duality between contents and form cannot continue to exist therefore the form will have a direct-spiritual meaning for the modern writer.

b)

The poem will resemble you.

c)

Based on the worship of the metaphor as a primary element of literary expression.

d)

The representative writer of this 'ism' is the Chilean Vicente Huidobro.

e)

Works include elements of the subconscious world, the unconscious, the dreams and the imagination.