Literature pre-test questions

• Engels
• WO
• Studiejaar 4

Possible test questions

Hi all! Below you will find a few questions like you might get them on the tests. 

The final slide gives some tips for studying.

Which authors wrote War Poetry?

1. Wilfred Owen & Siegfried Sassoon
2. Countee Cullen & Langston Hughs
4. James Joyces & Virginia Woolf

Which characteristic does not belong to Modernism?

1. Interest in psychology
2. Everything has been done before
4. Reaction to Realism and WW1

A pastiche always uses intertextuality

1. true
2. false

What made it difficult for black Americans to vote?

1. The Emancipaiton proclamation
2. the NAACP
3. Jim Crow laws

What is the difference between a utopia and a dystopia?

What is significant about the use of Obi-language in Chinua Achebe's 'Sacrificial Egg'?

What is this picture an example of?

What is the difference between Science Fiction and Fantasy?

During which period was this text written? Explain your answer.

 

(the next slide will have the answer)

This is a Modernistic text. The text is written in a chaotic, scattered way. Thoughts go from one point to the other. It is an example of stream of consciousness. A literary device popularised by Modernism

For the test

• Focus on the Reader. 
• Make the questions in the 'Literature Revision'-document on Magister (under 'Literature'). 
• Make sure you can recognise the characteristics and definitions in the reader (for example: be able to recognise a text from the Civil Rights movement or a pastiche) 
• There is a Recap Literature LessonUp (link on Magister)