1607-1800
1800-1860
1860-1900
1900-1950
1950-Present
100
Speeches, pamphlets, newspapers
What is dominant literary format for the Rationalist period?
100
Also call Dark Romanticism
What is Anti-Transcendentalism?
100
Literary period influenced by Slavery and the Civil War
What is Realism?
100
Influenced the ____ period: Jazz Age, WWI, WWII, Great Depression
What is Modernism or the Modernist Period?
100
Changed how we viewed and interpreted war and other events
What is the growing influence of the media?
200
writing was simple, it was not descriptive, not ornate, not fictional.
What is the Puritan Plain Style of writing?
200
Primary Format for Romantic literature
What is "Essays and Poetry"?
200
When authors write about where they are from
What is Regionalism or local color?
200
When a writed employs a technique that mimicks the way human's minds wander onto different subjects.
What is Stream of Consciousness writing?
200
Literary period that included Anti-heroes
What is the Contemporary Period?
300
God hand-picked those who were going to Heaven, thus He blessed them more while here on Earth.
Who are "The Elect"? or What is "The Elect"?
300
Literary Period that valued Imagination over Reason
What is Romanticism?
300
Wrote about life on the Mississippi River
Who is Mark Twain?
300
Author of The Great Gatsby
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
300
Literary movement influenced by the Civil Rights Movement, JFK Assassination, and POP culture
What is Post-Modernism or the Post-Modern period?
400
People worked really, really really hard in order to appear to be one of the Elect.
What is the Puritan Work Ethic
400
Literary period that elevated the importance of man to a level equal to God
What is Transcendentalism?
400
Primary format for literature during the Realism period
What is "Short Stories and Novels"?
400
Gatsby is a novel about the pursuit of ______.
What is "The American Dream"?
400
Literary period that reflects an emergence of women writers and ethnic writers
What is Post-Modern period and/or Contemporary Period?
500
Dominant format for literature during the Puritan period
What is Sermons, Diaries, Histories, and Religious poems (used for worship)?
500
Literary period that dealt with the Supernatural
What is Gothic literature?
500
This is characteristic of which period: The writers detailed the world as they saw it. They did not tell the reader how to interpret their work; rather, they left interpretation to the individual reader.
What is a characteristic of Realism?
500
One of the themes of literature written during the Modernist period
What is "Grief over Loss of the Past"?
500
Literary movement where the writers blurred the lines between fact and fiction
What is the Post-Modern period?