Romanticism
This era of Literature happened between 1780 and 1840 and focused on Nature, Individualism, and sometimes the supernatural.
What is Romanticism?
This historical event brought about Realism.
What is the Civil War?
This event happened after the Civil War and kicked off Regionalism.
What is Reconstruction?
This literary era was from 1900 to 1930 and focused on multiple views of society.
What is Modernism?
This author wrote dark stories and were normally sad or spooky.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
These three social reform issues were made part of the Romantic Era.
This social justice issue became the forefront of the Realism movement.
What is Slavery?
This specific transportation invention created a more open view of the United States and helped people travel more frequently and quickly.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Much of Modernism was full of this kind of literature.
What is the Short Story?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This specific "revolution" happened during the Romantic Era.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
These two poets were considered "mavericks" and the new "American Voice" of the 1860's.
Who are Whitman and Dickinson?
Mark Twain wrote stories like this that showed how people of specific regions behaved, normally, specifically in the South.
What are "Local Color" Stories?
Poetry saw many changes and emerging new styles. Two these focused looking at items and seeing them from different perspectives.
What is imagine and objectivism?
This person wrote important works that showed life in newly formed areas and mostly focus on man versus nature.
Who is Jack London?
This was the beliefs that some ideas are best for the nation and some ideas are best for a section of the country.
What are sectionalism and nationalism?
The Realism style is known for having these specific tones:
What is ironic, sarcastic and brutal honesty (unsentimental).
This was a type of Regionalism that said that humans were at the mercy of things that bigger than them i.e society, or nature.
What is Naturalism?
This type of literature was found in journals, newspapers, and magazines and became popular in during the era.
What is journalism?
This person wrote many stories that focuses on how people view those around. One of the stories was "A Rose for Emily".
Who was William Faulkner?
These were 3 types of Romantic Sub-Eras.
What were the Fireside Poets, Trancendentalists, and Brooding Romantics?
These two types of literature became popular during the realism era:
What are Slave Narratives and Public Documents?
This movement, specifically revolving around woman's rights, allow women to grow as writers and find a more secure footing in the literary world.
What is the suffragette/ suffrage movement?
This movement was happening during Modernism and focused on the importance of the Black experience.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Name two of the Fireside Poets without looking it up.
Who is Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier or Lowell?