American Literature - Week 4

In Maus, one of the things Vladek buys for Anja from the black market is __________.

In "Mending Wall," how do the speaker and his neighbor proceed along the wall?

In "The Cask of Amontillado," which character flaw of Fortunato's does Montresor exploit?

In "Mending Wall," which season does the speaker credit with prompting him to ask a mischievous question?

In "The Cask of Amontillado," why does Montresor decide to kill Fortunato?

Where does "Woman Hollering Creek" take place?

In "Woman Hollering Creek," where does Cleófilas get her ideas about love?

Which writer is generally credited as the inventor of the modern short-story form?

In "Mending Wall," whom does the speaker briefly consider blaming the wall's disrepair on?

In "Mending Wall," the speaker describes his neighbor near the end of the poem: "I see him there / Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top / In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed." Is his hand holding the stones:

What American writer claimed it was not just our right as Americans, but also our duty, to defy unjust laws and has subsequently influenced social leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King?

Irony is ___.

Which author lived in and chronicled the "Jazz Age" of the 1920s and wrote "Babylon Revisited" and The Great Gatsby?

Which of the following groups preserved their literature through an oral tradition?

Which group of American writers no longer dominated the literary scene after World War II?

Which two authors had a significant impact on the Harlem Renaissance?

What great American poet saw fewer than 20 poems published in her lifetime but is recognized today for her short, passionate, symbolic verse?

What two towering works of early American fiction were created by mutual friends Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville?

Who wrote "Everyday Use" and The Color Purple?

The denouement comes ___.

The rapidly developing journalism industry, flourishing in America, helped produce the great generation of writers following which period?

What European literary movement emphasized individual expression in art and individual rights in politics and directly influenced the flowering of the first significant American literature?

Free verse is poetry that Free verse is ___.

What late 19th and early 20th century American literary movement stressed the determining influence of social and environmental forces on individual lives?

What early American literary and philosophical movement emphasized the power of the individual and a personal connection with nature?

Which of the following is not a genre?

Point of view in fiction is the ___.

What time period covers the span of American literary history referred to as the American Renaissance?

Which writer is generally credited as the inventor of the modern short-story form?