Southern Gothic Literature (Quiz - MC) - Lisa Moskowitz | Biblioteka

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Recategorize the key elements, themes, and motifs of American Gothic literature into Northern and Southern Gothic. (6 each, you will NOT use any more than once)

themes on religion, predestination, and free will
dark forests and bitter cold
anxieties around race, inheritance, and poverty
witches, demons, vampires, and ghosts
plantations, intense heat, heavy trees, agricultural motifs
oppression, exhaustion, decay, lasting ruins; isolation, endurance
vengeful ghosts, hauntings; violent personalities; mob/community violence
guilt (of one's sins; shame)
anxieties around a judgemental society / wrathful God
the grotesque; the mentally or physically disabled or disturbed; bigotry
madness, corruption, severe guilt, horror, hopelessness
themes on social issues and inequities

Nothern Gothic
Southern Gothic

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Recategorize the paintings below of American Gothic artwork into Northern and Southern Gothic.
(click on the images to zoom)

Still shot from the movie "The VVitch"
Edwin Harleston, Boone Hall Plantation (1925)
"American Gothic" painting by Grant Wood
"Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon" by Caspar David Friedrich

Nothern Gothic
Southern Gothic

Obavezno

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Which of the following motifs is NOT an identifiable motif of Southern Gothic?

generational trauma, curses, and inheritance

whispering or burbling brook

decay and deteriorating places

an oppressive, heavy sun; hot sluggish days, cool violent nights

Obavezno

1

What "haunts" the south in Southern Gothic lit?

the horror of what people are capable of doing to other people

the history of the south and the "skeletons" of our past (civil war, slavery, etc.)

religious trauma and the fear of God's coming judgment

the fear of your neighbor and what they "could" be up to over there...

Both A and B

Both C and D

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What is the most "iconic" symbolic imagery of Southern Gothic movement?

blood, gore, and the grotesque

towering mountains over deep fog

sowers, mowers, reapers, and the harvest

the dark and spooky woods

creepy castles, mansions, and estates

1

Which of the following is NOT an immediately recognizable setting for Southern Gothic.

bayou and swamps; floods

plantations and agricultural locations

cabins in the deep woods

huge oak trees, spanish moss

1

Flannery O'Connor coined the term "generational trauma" to refer to the way you have to be from the South to truly understand its history, culture, and truth.

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1

Most Southern Gothic texts center around the ruling class, or the powerful/dominant group.

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1

In Southern Gothic lit, you might come into Nature seeking Truth, but you're not going to find it, or, if you do, it will be by accident or grace.

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Netačno

1

Southern Gothic rarely includes the supernatural and monsters, magic, and ghosts are atypical of this movement.

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Netačno

1

While not technically a Southern Gothic text, Steinbeck ascribes southern gothic themes, and imagery onto migrant workers in California in order to compare migrant worker experience to post-bellum south in the novella Of Mice and Men.

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Netačno

Obavezno

1

Consider this excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God:
What sentence here BEST supports the assertion that this text is Southern Gothic?

It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on.

But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands.

They say in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against the cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His.

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

Obavezno

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Consider this excerpt from Other Voices by Truman Capote:
Which THREE phrases BEST supports the assertion that this text is Southern Gothic?

But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other

so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness

for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark

all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter, and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us

until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world

dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.

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Consider this excerpt from Other Voices by Truman Capote:
In this passage, what literary device really heightens the horror?

repetition

diction

metaphors

allusion

Southern Gothic Literature (Quiz - MC)

Southern Gothic Literature (Quiz - MC)

Recategorize the key elements, themes, and motifs of American Gothic literature into Northern and Southern Gothic. (6 each, you will NOT use any more than once)

Recategorize the paintings below of American Gothic artwork into Northern and Southern Gothic. (click on the images to zoom)

Which of the following motifs is NOT an identifiable motif of Southern Gothic?

What "haunts" the south in Southern Gothic lit?

What is the most "iconic" symbolic imagery of Southern Gothic movement?

Which of the following is NOT an immediately recognizable setting for Southern Gothic.

Flannery O'Connor coined the term "generational trauma" to refer to the way you have to be from the South to truly understand its history, culture, and truth.

Most Southern Gothic texts center around the ruling class, or the powerful/dominant group.

In Southern Gothic lit, you might come into Nature seeking Truth, but you're not going to find it, or, if you do, it will be by accident or grace.

Southern Gothic rarely includes the supernatural and monsters, magic, and ghosts are atypical of this movement.

While not technically a Southern Gothic text, Steinbeck ascribes southern gothic themes, and imagery onto migrant workers in California in order to compare migrant worker experience to post-bellum south in the novella Of Mice and Men.

Consider this excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God: What sentence here BEST supports the assertion that this text is Southern Gothic?

Consider this excerpt from Other Voices by Truman Capote: Which THREE phrases BEST supports the assertion that this text is Southern Gothic?

Consider this excerpt from Other Voices by Truman Capote: In this passage, what literary device really heightens the horror?

Recategorize the key elements, themes, and motifs of American Gothic literature into Northern and Southern Gothic. (6 each, you will NOT use any more than once)

Recategorize the paintings below of American Gothic artwork into Northern and Southern Gothic. (click on the images to zoom)

Which of the following motifs is NOT an identifiable motif of Southern Gothic?

What "haunts" the south in Southern Gothic lit?

What is the most "iconic" symbolic imagery of Southern Gothic movement?

Which of the following is NOT an immediately recognizable setting for Southern Gothic.

Flannery O'Connor coined the term "generational trauma" to refer to the way you have to be from the South to truly understand its history, culture, and truth.

Most Southern Gothic texts center around the ruling class, or the powerful/dominant group.

In Southern Gothic lit, you might come into Nature seeking Truth, but you're not going to find it, or, if you do, it will be by accident or grace.

Southern Gothic rarely includes the supernatural and monsters, magic, and ghosts are atypical of this movement.

While not technically a Southern Gothic text, Steinbeck ascribes southern gothic themes, and imagery onto migrant workers in California in order to compare migrant worker experience to post-bellum south in the novella Of Mice and Men.

Consider this excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God: What sentence here BEST supports the assertion that this text is Southern Gothic?

Consider this excerpt from Other Voices by Truman Capote: Which THREE phrases BEST supports the assertion that this text is Southern Gothic?

Consider this excerpt from Other Voices by Truman Capote: In this passage, what literary device really heightens the horror?

Recategorize the paintings below of American Gothic artwork into Northern and Southern Gothic.
(click on the images to zoom)

Consider this excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God:
What sentence here BEST supports the assertion that this text is Southern Gothic?

Consider this excerpt from Other Voices by Truman Capote:
Which THREE phrases BEST supports the assertion that this text is Southern Gothic?

Consider this excerpt from Other Voices by Truman Capote:
In this passage, what literary device really heightens the horror?

Recategorize the paintings below of American Gothic artwork into Northern and Southern Gothic.
(click on the images to zoom)

Consider this excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God:
What sentence here BEST supports the assertion that this text is Southern Gothic?

Consider this excerpt from Other Voices by Truman Capote:
Which THREE phrases BEST supports the assertion that this text is Southern Gothic?

Consider this excerpt from Other Voices by Truman Capote:
In this passage, what literary device really heightens the horror?