Unseen Genres

Question 1

Features of Puritanism (3)

Answer 1

Protestant work ethic, manifest destiny, Christianity

Question 2

Features of Romanticism (4)

Answer 2

Personal freedom, gothic, imagination, self-expression

Question 3

Features of Transcendentalism (3)

Answer 3

Unity of all kind, nature and God, we are all connected

Question 4

Features of Reconstruction (3)

Answer 4

Post Civil War, race, impact of Great Migration

Question 5

Features of Regional Realism (3)

Answer 5

1880, Southern lit, accessing new regions in America

Question 6

Features of Social Realism (3)

Answer 6

Gilded Age, Industrial Revolution, working classes gain new voices in the turn of thee century

Question 7

Features of Sentimentalism (3)

Answer 7

Gilded Age, Industrial Revolution in 1900s, Female voices and featuring female protagonists

Question 8

Features of Naturalism (6)

Answer 8

Cruelty of life, destitution and demise, Native Son+Grapes of Wrath, Urban typically, Social Darwinism, futility and nihilism

Question 9

Features of Harlem Renaissance (4)

Answer 9

1920s Black voices in NYC rejecting long-standing stereotypes, Richard Wright, Nella Larsen’s Passing, rejecting ‘moonlight and magnolias’

Question 10

Features of Modernism (5)

Answer 10

1920s-1940s, The Great Gatsby, Grapes of Wrath, Lost Generation, failure of the American Dream

Question 11

Features of Southern Renaissance (2)

Answer 11

1930s-1940 South Post Civil War, Agrarian