1. Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or _______?
A:) symbolism
B:) surrealism
C:) anthologies
D: theologies
springline- Correct option: C:) anthologies
2. The cavalier poets was a school of English poets of the 17th century, that came from the classes that supported King Charles I during the English Civil War (1642–1651). Cavalier was traditionally a mounted soldier or knight, but when the term was applied to those who supported Charles, it was meant to portray them as roistering gallants. The term was thus meant to belittle and ______?
A:) illusion
B:) critic
C:) satire
D: insult
springline- Correct option: D:) insult
3. The term Metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterised by the inventive use of conceits, and by a greater emphasis on the spoken rather than lyrical quality of their verse. Given the lack of coherence as a movement, and the diversity of style among poets, it has been suggested that calling them ______?
A:) Dark Poets
B:) Nature Poets
C:) Beat Poets
D: Baroque poets
springline- Correct option: D:) Baroque poets
4. Amatory fiction is a genre of British literature that became popular during the late 17th century and early 18th century, approximately 1660–1730. Amatory fiction predates, and in some ways predicts, the invention of the novel and is an early predecessor of the _____ ?
A:) romance novel
B:) Gothic novel
C:) Science Fiction
D: Fantasy
springline- Correct option: A:) romance novel
5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller were notable proponents of the Literary movement early in their lives, although they ended their period of association with it by initiating what would become ________ ?
A:) Futurism
B:) Weimar Classicism
C:) Amatory fiction
D: Verismo
springline- Correct option: B:) Weimar Classicism
6. Dark Romanticism is a literary subgenre of Romanticism, reflecting popular fascination with the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque. Often conflated with Gothic fiction, it has shadowed the euphoric Romantic movement ever since its 18th-century beginnings. Who is often celebrated as one of the supreme exponents of the tradition?
A:) George Bernard Shaw
B:) Edgar Allan Poe
C:) James Joyce
D: Emile Zola
springline- Correct option: B:) Edgar Allan Poe
7. Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror in the 20th century, is a genre of literature and film that covers horror, death and at times romance. It is said to derive from the English author Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, later subtitled ‘A Gothic Story’. The name Gothic spread from the Goths to mean ________?
A:) French
B:) Wired
C:) Horror
D: German
springline- Correct option: D:) German
8. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner ,who formed a seven-member ‘Brotherhood’ modelled in part on the ______?
A:) Nazarene movement
B:) Decadent movement
C:) Jindyworobak movement
D: Prakalpana movement
springline- Correct option: A:) Nazarene movement
9. The Brotherhood believed the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art, hence the name ‘Pre-Raphaelite’. The group associated their work with _____
A:) Robert Lowell
B:) Allen Ginsberg
C:) Edgar Allen Poe
D: John Ruskin
springline- Correct option: D:) John Ruskin
10. Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements. Literary realism attempts to represent familiar things as they are. The realism art movement in painting began in France in the 1850s, after the 1848 Revolution. The realist painters rejected _______ ?
A:) Surrealism
B:) Modernism
C:) Realism
D: Romanticism
springline- Correct option: D:) Romanticism
11. As literary critic Ian Watt states in The Rise of the Novel, modern realism ‘begins from the position that truth can be discovered by the individual through the senses’ and as such ‘it has its origins in Descartes and Locke, and received its first full formulation by ______ ?
A:) Thomas Reid
B:) John Donne
C:) George Herbert
D: Andrew Marvell
springline- Correct option: A:) Thomas Reid
12. In 19th-century realism was in its turn a reaction to Romanticism, and for this reason it is also commonly derogatorily referred as traditional or ‘bourgeois realism’. However, not all writers of Victorian literature produced works of realism. The rigidities, conventions, and other limitations of Victorian realism prompted in their turn the revolt of _____?
A:) Romanticism
B:) Dark romanticism
C:) modernism
D: naturalism
springline- Correct option: C:) modernism
13. Naturalism is a literary movement beginning in the late nineteenth century, similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary. The movement largely traces to the theories of French author _____?
A:) Mike Gold
B:) Oscar Wilde
C:) Émile Zola
D: Paul Valery
springline- Correct option: C:) Émile Zola
14. Comte had proposed a scientific method that ‘went beyond empiricism, beyond the passive and detached observation of phenomena’. The application of this method ‘called for a scientist to conduct controlled experiments that would either prove or disprove hypotheses regarding those phenomena’. Naturalism began as a branch of_______ ?
A:) literary realism
B:) dark romanticism
C:) symbolism
D: modernism
springline- Correct option: A:) literary realism
15. The first author to theorize on Italian verismo was Capuana, who theorized the ‘poetry of the real’ – thus Verga, at first part of the late Romantic literary movement (he was called the poet of the duchesses and had considerable success), later shifted to verismo with his short story collections Vita dei campi and Novelle rusticane and finally with the first novel of the 'Ciclo dei Vinti' cycle, I Malavoglia in ________
A:) 1880
B:) 1881
C:) 1882
D: 1885
springline- Correct option: B:) 1881
16. Martin Andersen Nexø developed socialist realism in his own way. His creative method featured a combination of publicistic passion, a critical view of capitalist society, and a steadfast striving to bring reality into accord with socialist ideals. Whose novel Mother (1906) is usually considered to have been the first socialist-realist novel?
A:) Maxim Gorky
B:) Knut Hamsun
C:) Siegfried
D: Rupert Brooke
springline- Correct option: A:) Maxim Gorky
17. Magic realism (also known as magical realism or marvelous realism) is a 20th-century style of fiction and literary genre. The term magic realism is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous, and Who defines it as ‘what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe?
A:) Wilfred Owen
B:) F.Scott
C:) Matthew Strecher
D: Waldo Pierce
springline- Correct option: C:) Matthew Strecher
18. Roh identified magic realism's accurate detail, smooth photographic clarity, and portrayal of the 'magical' nature of the rational world; it reflected the uncanniness of people and our modern technological environment. The first novels categorized as magical realism were the ones of_______?
A:) Aphra Behn
B:) María Luisa Bombal
C:) Eliza Haywood
D: Friedrich Schiller
springline- Correct option: B:) María Luisa Bombal
19. The Decadent movement was a late-19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality. The visual artist Félicien Rops's body of work and Joris-Karl Huysmans's novel Against Nature in_____?
A:) 1884
B:) 1885
C:) 1886
D: 1887
springline- Correct option: A:) 1884
20. Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and _____?
A:) realism
B:) Socialism
C:) Magical realism
D: modernism
springline- Correct option: A:) realism
21. The aesthetic was developed by Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine during the 1860s and 1870s. In the 1880s, the aesthetic was articulated by a series of manifestos and attracted a generation of writers. The term ‘symbolist’ was first applied by Whom invented the term to distinguish the Symbolists from the related Decadents of literature and of art?
A:) Roy Choudhury
B:) Gunter Grass
C:) Octavio Paz
D: Jean Moréas
springline- Correct option: D:) Jean Moréas
22. In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode or method that attempts ‘to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind’ of a narrator. The term was coined by Alexander Bain in ______?
A:) 1855
B:) 1856
C:) 1857
D: 1858
springline- Correct option: A:) 1855
23. Stream of consciousness : It has also been suggested that Edgar Allan Poe's short story ‘The Tell-Tale Heart‘ (1843) foreshadows this literary technique in the nineteenth century. Poe's story is a first person narrative, told by an unnamed narrator who endeavours to convince the reader of his sanity while describing a murder he committed, and it is often read as a________ ?
A:) fiction
B:) dramatic monologue
C:) non-fiction
D: Dark romanticism
springline- Correct option: B:) dramatic monologue
24. The confessional poet's engagement with personal experience has been explained by literary critics as an effort to distance oneself from the horrifying social realities of the twentieth century. Confessional poetry or ’Confessionalism’ is a style of poetry that emerged in the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s. It is sometimes also classified as a form of ______ ?
A:) Postmodernism
B:) modernism
C:) Romanticism
D: Naturalism
springline- Correct option: A:) Postmodernism
25. The school of ‘confessional poetry’ was associated with several poets who redefined American poetry in the 1950s and 1960s, including Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Allen Ginsberg, and W. D. Snodgrass. When ,M. L. Rosenthal first used the term ‘confessional’ in a review of Robert Lowell's Life Studies entitled ‘Poetry as Confession‘?
A:) 1957
B:) 1958
C:) 1959
D: 1960
springline- Correct option: C:) 1959
26. Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (c. 1916). It developed in reaction to World War I. The roots of Dada lie in pre-war avant-garde. The term anti-art, a precursor to Dada, was coined by _____?
A:) Mike Gold
B:) Marcel Duchamp
C:) Gustav Flaubert
D: Oscar Wilde
springline- Correct option: B:) Marcel Duchamp
27. New Formalism is a late 20th- and early 21st-century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical, rhymed verse and Narrative poetry on the grounds that all three are necessary if American poetry is to compete with novels and regain its former popularity among the American people. The term 'New Formalism' was first used in the article ______?
A:) 'The Yuppie Poet
B:) The Beat Poet
C:) Hungryalist poets
D: Misty poets
springline- Correct option: A:) 'The Yuppie Poet
28. Concrete poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance. Though the term ‘concrete poetry’ is modern, the idea of using letter arrangements to enhance the meaning of a poem is old. It is sometimes referred to as______?
A:) Misty poetry
B:) visual poetry
C:) Dark poetry
D: Narrative poetry
springline- Correct option: B:) visual poetry
29. The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized by Silent Generationers in the ______?
A:) 1940s
B:) 1950s
C:) 1960s
D: 1970s
springline- Correct option: B:) 1950s
30. Transcendentalism emerged from ‘English and German Romanticism, the Biblical criticism of Johann Gottfried Herder and Friedrich Schleiermacher, the skepticism of David Hume. It was also strongly influenced by Hindu texts on philosophy of the mind and spirituality, especially the ______?
A:) Bhagavad Gita
B:) Rigveda
C:) Aranyaka
D: Upanishads
springline- Correct option: D:) Upanishads