Wordsworth calls poetry “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” and wants “language really used by men.” Which position is that Preface written against?

Pope writes, “True Wit is Nature to advantage dress’d; / What oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d.” Which movement’s poetics does the couplet best represent?

Zola’s “experimental novel” treats the novelist as an investigator of heredity, environment, and social conditions. Which movement is being defined?

Eliot says poetry is “not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.” Which movement’s poetics does that impersonality help place?

Hughes opens “I, Too” with “I, too, sing America.” Which movement’s claim on national literary voice does the line most directly express?

A novel footnotes doubtful archives, interrupts its plot to discuss storytelling, and treats history as a constructed text. Which movement’s habits does this description fit?

Claudia Rankine’s Citizen blends lyric, essay, image, and documentary address to examine racial microaggressions. Which broad literary period does it belong to?

A prose drama sets ordinary marriage, money, and law inside a middle-class parlor rather than a mythic court. Which movement’s aims does that description fit?

The Prelude, “Tintern Abbey,” and Frankenstein all belong most closely to which movement’s intellectual world?

Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Great Expectations share which period’s commitment to social detail and ordinary institutions?

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, McTeague, and Sister Carrie are usually grouped with which movement?

The Waste Land, Mrs Dalloway, and The Sound and the Fury all fracture continuous narration and foreground consciousness. Which movement’s methods do they share?

Cane, The Weary Blues, and Their Eyes Were Watching God are most closely associated with which movement?

Slaughterhouse-Five, The Crying of Lot 49, and “Lost in the Funhouse” are often taught as examples of which movement’s metafictional play?

The Iliad, Oedipus Rex, and the Aeneid belong to which broad literary period?

Against what it saw as excess and disorder, what did Neoclassicism especially value?

Romanticism answered Neoclassical restraint by elevating which source of poetic authority?

Realism differs from Romanticism chiefly by valuing what?

Naturalism grows out of Realism, but what makes its view of character harsher?

Modernism answered Victorian confidence in coherent social order by valuing which formal strategy?

What did the Harlem Renaissance assert against racist exclusion from the literary canon?

Postmodernism often answers Modernism’s search for order with what attitude toward narrative and history?

Eliot begins “Let us go then, you and I,” then compares the evening to “a patient etherized upon a table.” What marks the break from Victorian lyric expectation?

Mrs Dalloway opens with buying flowers, then moves into Clarissa’s memories and sensations. Which feature marks a Modernist break from Victorian narration?

Wordsworth writes, “Come forth into the light of things, / Let Nature be your teacher.” Which feature breaks with Neoclassical assumptions?

Whitman begins, “I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” Which feature announces a break from genteel poetic restraint?

Crane opens Maggie with a boy fighting “for the honor of Rum Alley.” Which feature points toward Naturalism rather than genteel realism?

Pope’s “What oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d” praises polished formulation. Which feature marks Neoclassical practice?

Hughes writes, “I, too, sing America.” Which feature marks the Harlem Renaissance break from a white-dominated national canon?

Calvino opens, “You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel.” Which feature marks a Postmodern break from realist transparency?