Movement Elements
Puritans dreamed of creating this kind of community, serving as a model for others.
What is a “city upon a hill”?
This famous novel by John Steinbeck tells the tale of two friends traveling for work during the Great Depression.
What is Of Mice and Men?
He wrote Self-Reliance and led the Transcendentalist movement.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Literature is shared through oral tradition, with creation myths and nature-based stories.
What is Native American Literature?
The U.S. president featured on the $20 bill.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This movement emphasized emotion, nature, and individuality, rejecting Enlightenment rationalism.
What is Romanticism?
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel about wealth, love, and the American Dream.
What is The Great Gatsby?
Known for On the Road, he helped define the Beat Generation.
Who is Jack Kerouac?
Writings stress reason, science, satire, and independence from Britain.
What is the Revolutionary/Enlightenment period?
This planet is known as the “Red Planet.”
What is Mars?
This philosophy valued inner truth, self-reliance, and spiritual connection with nature.
What is Transcendentalism?
This Beat Generation road novel embodied spontaneity and nonconformity.
What is On the Road? ?
This Harlem Renaissance writer celebrated Black identity in Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
Emotional expression, celebration of nature, and an American identity define this movement.
What is Romanticism?
In music, Beyoncé first rose to fame as part of this girl group.
What is Destiny’s Child?
A hallmark of Modernism, this experimental writing style mimics the flow of inner thought.
What is stream-of-consciousness?
Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam War collection known for fragmented narrative and metafiction.
What is The Things They Carried?
The “Master of Gothic” who explored madness, death, and the macabre.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
Works emphasize ordinary people, regional dialects, and the harsh realities of life.
What is Realism/Naturalism?
This sport is known as “America’s pastime.”
What is baseball?
This Postmodern technique makes a story self-aware of its own fictionality.
What is metafiction?
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Puritan novel about sin, guilt, and a scarlet letter.
What is The Scarlet Letter?
This Native American Poet Laureate wrote An American Sunrise.
Who is Joy Harjo?
Fragmented narratives, irony, and metafiction highlight this movement.
What is Postmodernism/Contemporary Literature?
The chemical symbol “Au” stands for this precious metal.
What is gold?