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Literary periods
Characteristics of literary era
Genres
Literary devices
Writing styles
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This period took place before 1607 and contained stories by Native cultures as well as explorer narratives.
What is The Pre-colonial period?
100
Many political documents including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
What is The REVOLUTIONARY period.
100
A story about a person's life told by the person who it is about.
What is autobiography?
100
This describes a comparison of dissimilar things without like or as.
What is a METAPHOR?
100
This style is not written down, but spoken and part of many traditional native cultures.
What is the ORAL tradition?
200
This period was a rejection from the industrial movement towards nature and includes essays by Emerson and Thoreau.
What is Transcendentalism?
200
The COLONIAL period.
What is religious and devotional writing?
200
A work broken into lines and stanzas which uses powerful language and sometimes has rhythm and rhyme.
What is poetry?
200
This is describing something that is not human as having human characteristics.
What is Personification?
200
Often told the story of African slaves and their experiences, in order to elicit sympathy.
What are SLAVE narratives
300
This was a period where colonists debated fighting against Great Britain for their independence.
What is the Revolutionary period?
300
This is referred to as dark romantic or anti-transcendental.
What is Gothic?
300
A speech given by a religious leader in front of his congregation.
What is a sermon?
300
This type of narrator is all knowing as if he were God.
What is an omniscient narrator?
300
This style is not showy, nor descriptive, and focused on the action of the story or topic.
What is Puritan plain style?
400
This period included the accounts of the first European settlers, the Puritan's poetry (including Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor) and sermons.
What is Colonialism?
400
The Pre-colonial period.
What is an oral tradition with origin myths?
400
An account of someone in the past describing their experiences during a specific time period or event.
What is historical narrative?
400
This also like the beat of a poem or a metric measurement.
What is METER?
400
Rhyme used by Emily Dickinson that is not a perfect rhyme.
What is SLANT RHYME?
500
This period's literature reinforced the authority of the Bible and the church.
What is Colonial?
500
The literary period where American writers became more widely read and writers re-imagined the American past.
What is Romanticism?
500
A narrative with plot, setting, and characters that is not as long as a novel.
What is a short story?
500
This is the repetition of the a sound in words in the same line of a poem or essay.
What is ALLITERATION?
500
A style focused on self-reliance and a protest against traditional intellectualism that transcended science and the physical world.
What is TRANSCENDENTALISM?