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Time Periods
Time Periods II
Potpourri
Authors
Literary Devices
100
Oral Tradition Stories
What is Native Americans
100
Real life situations
What is Realism
100
These Authors believed that some evil did exist in the world.
What is Anti-Transcendentalist
100
Anne Bradestreet
What is Puritan Writer
100
Comparison using like or as
What is simile
200
Characters go through mental and physical torment, setting is bleak and remote
What is Gothic
200
African Americans flourished during this time
What is The Harlem Renaissance
200
Use of language to evoke pictures while reading
What is imagery
200
Nathanial Hawthorne
What is anti-transcendentalist
200
A reference made to someone or something in history
What is allusion
300
Authors believed that Nature, Fate and heridity determinded your life
What is Naturalism
300
Imagist Poets existed during this time period
What is Modernism
300
A traditional story that explains how life began
What is origin myth
300
Emerson, Thoreau and Irving
What is Transcendentalist
300
Repitition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration
400
Celebrates nationalism and patriotism and examines what it means to be "American"
What is Revolutionary
400
"The Crucible" was written during this time period
What is Post Modernism
400
Persuasive Techniques (3 Types)
What is Ethos, Logos & Pathos
400
Dickinson & Whitman
What is Romantic
400
Sweet sorrow, deafening silence
What is oxymoron
500
The Atomic Bomb was dropped during this time period
What is Post Modernism
500
Celebrates individualism, nature, imagination, emotions
What is Romanticism/Transcendentalism
500
What is author's purpose
What is persuade, inform, entertain and sometimes share feelings
500
Arthur Miller
What is Post-Modernism
500
Repitition of initial vowel sounds
What is assonance