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Southern Gothic Literature (Quiz - MC)

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14 questions
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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)

  • guilt (of one's sins; shame)
  • plantations, intense heat, heavy trees, agricultural motifs
  • vengeful ghosts, hauntings; violent personalities; mob/community violence
  • anxieties around a judgemental society / wrathful God
  • the grotesque; the mentally or physically disabled or disturbed; bigotry
  • madness, corruption, severe guilt, horror, hopelessness
  • anxieties around race, inheritance, and poverty
  • themes on social issues and inequities
  • themes on religion, predestination, and free will
  • witches, demons, vampires, and ghosts
  • oppression, exhaustion, decay, lasting ruins; isolation, endurance
  • dark forests and bitter cold
  • Nothern Gothic
  • Southern Gothic
4

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

  • "American Gothic" painting by Grant Wood
  • "Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon" by Caspar David Friedrich
  • Still shot from the movie "The VVitch"

  • Edwin Harleston, Boone Hall Plantation (1925)
  • Nothern Gothic
  • Southern Gothic
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Which of the following motifs is NOT an identifiable motif of Southern Gothic?

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1

What "haunts" the south in Southern Gothic lit?

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

1

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

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

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.

1

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

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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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1

Consider this excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God:


What sentence here BEST supports the assertion that this text is Southern Gothic?

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3

Consider this excerpt from Other Voices by Truman Capote:



Which THREE phrases BEST supports the assertion that this text is Southern Gothic?

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Consider this excerpt from Other Voices by Truman Capote:


In this passage, what literary device really heightens the horror?