Native American Lit
Colonial Era
Romanticism
Realism
Modernist Era
100
Explores the creation of the world and other phenomena occurring in the world
What are creation myths?
100
This is the style of writing in this time
What is plain style?
100
This era did not write about love, but rather this
What is emotion?
100
This literary era became popular after this war
What is the Civil War?
100
This poetic trend featured short, sharp words designed to create mind images
What is Imagism?
200
The way that these stories were handed down
What is orally?
200
This is a common subject of the literature of this time
What is God and religion?
200
This literary era stemmed from Romanticism, but differed because they believed men were inherently good
What is Transcendentalism?
200
Instead of "larger-than-life" heroes, the characters were this
What is ordinary people?
200
This theme was common for this era
What is disillusionment?
300
This religion strongly influenced the writing of this time
What is Puritan?
300
Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville wrote about the darker side of life and fit this literary era
What is Anti-Transcendentalism? or What is Gothic? or What is Dark Romanticism?
300
A writing style that uses local language to sound more authentic
What is regionalism? or What is colloquialism?
300
The Modernist movement became popular after this war
What is World War I?
400
Our founding fathers developed a new voice, full of patriotism and rebellion that was called this
What is the Age of Reason? or What was the Enlightenment?
400
Transcendentalists strongly opposed these two groups
What are organized religion and politics?
400
An offshoot of Realism, this era dealt with the harshness of the world as well as a close look at societal issues
What is Naturalism?
400
Robert Frost experimented with this poetic form, which is a very strict form with many rules
What is a sonnet?
500
This poet wrote an elegy to President Lincoln and he experimented with free verse
Who is Walt Whitman?
500
F. Scott Fitzgerald's _The Great Gatsby_ is largely about this other common theme in Modernist literature
What is the American Dream?
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