Listening Practice. Listen to the introduction lecture to a course on American
Literature, and fill in the table ... (11)______ A person can not escape (12)
______.
IELTS mock listening: American Literature
Listening Practice Listen to the introduction lecture to a course on American Literature, and fill in the table below using one to three words for each gap. Movement Title Transcendentalism
Time Period 1830s – 1860s
Origins New (1)___________; the north eastern part of the US
Romanticism
1830s – 1870s
Germany and (4)___________
Realism
(7)_____s – 1920s
France
Naturalism
1890s – 1920s
(11)__________
Modernism
1890s – 1940s
Europe
Core Beliefs and Important Figures People can achieve spirituality without (2)________________. People are responsible for their own development. Ralph Waldo Emerson: published Nature in (3)____________. Focus on imagination and strong emotions. American works also typically include the supernatural and focus on human (5)____________. Edgar Allen Poe: best known for tales of (6)____________ Focus on events that were (8)__________ and typical rather than extraordinary. Many writers were also concerned with social change like (9)_____________. Mark Twain: Wrote about ordinary life in the (10)____________ part of America A person can not escape (12)___________. A person’s behaviour is influenced by that person’s (13)___________. Jack London: Humans behave like animals in extreme circumstances. Focus on (14)___________. Finding out what doesn’t work and replacing it. Ezra Pound: Completely changed (15)____________.
