The New Frontier
After the Civil War, this system had to move west because of the devastated plantation system.
Agriculture
Robert Frost
This type of poetry idealizes rural settings and lifestyles.
This style of irony occurs when something happens that contradicts a reader's expectations.
Situational Irony
This era drew attention to city-life sights and sounds in American Literature.
The Roaring Twenties
Small-town or rural America
This author is famous for his unconventional poetry.
E.E. Cummings
Modernism
This stylistic device is a reference to another text.
Allusion
This era marked American literature with an emphasis on poverty, crime, and racism.
The Great Depression
This age, sparked by the invention of electricity, transformed the nation's attitude to believe that bigger, stronger, faster, and newer is better.
The Second Industrial Revolution
This author is famous for his simple and succinct writing style.
Ernest Hemingway
Realism
Journalism influenced fiction to become shorter, snappier, and less flowery to accomplish this goal.
Reach a wider audience or sell more books.
This administration brought about major economic reforms to increase employment, including the support of artists and authors to increase American national pride.
The New Deal or the Public Works Administration
This Act gave free land in the west to anyone who would live on it and improve it.
The Homestead Act of 1862
This author observes and highlights human weaknesses as a basis for humor.
Mark Twain
This genre is based in the belief that there is a supernatural force shaping human destinies.
Naturalism
This age of literature often left plotlines unresolved and encouraged a break in formality.
Modern Age Literature
This natural disaster caused small-town America to decrease in population and emphasized the struggles of men and women who work the land.
The Dust Bowl
This war pushed America to re-evaluate believes and values, leaving behind the subjectivity of the 19th century and replace it with an objective pragmatism.
The Civil War
This author emphasized the philosophy that men and women are equal
Kate Chopin
These are lyrical expressions of lamentation, hope, and comfort.
Spirituals
Mark Twain is known for his use of this humorous, extreme exaggeration.
Hyperbole
These major world events scarred both the landscape and pride in western culture, giving literature an emphasis on emptiness, suffering, and sterility.
The World Wars