Puritan Literature
Revolutionary Literature
Transcendentalism
Romanticism
Realism and Naturalism
Modernism
The Harlem Renaissance
Gothic Literature
100

Group of Protestants who wanted to “purify” the Church of England.

Who are the Puritans? 

100

Short sayings with a message

What is an aphorism? 

100

A person who accepts these ideas not as religious beliefs but as a way of understanding life relationships.

What is a transcendentalist? 

100

Romantic writers (and artists) saw themselves as revolting against this (1700-1770) and its classical values.

What is the age of reason?

100

Focuses on small geographical area in attempt to reproduce speech & mannerisms

What is regionalism? 

100

This phrase attributed to Ezra Pound, became a rallying cry for writers who participated in this cultural movement

What is make it new?

100

Cultural movement in the early 1920’s involving African American artists, writers, musicians, and performers

What is the Harlem Renaissance? 

100

Considered to be the father of southern gothic literature

Who is Poe?

200

God had already decided, before birth, whether someone would go to heaven or to hell

What is Predestination? 

200

He wrote Poor Richard's Almanac 

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

200

This writer tried to put transcendentalism into practice

Who was Henry David Thoreau? 

200

American Romanticism is closely related to this literary period.

What is Transcendentalism? 

200

The philosophical standpoint of this literary style that scientific laws control life

What is naturalism? 

200

A style that some Modern writers use to portray the inner workings of a character’s mind.

What is stream of consciousness? 

200

African Americans move to northern cities during WWI

What is the great migration?

200

Came from this country in the late 1700’s - early 1800’s

What is Germany?

300

Wrote a famous sermon titled "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Who is Jonathan Edwards?

300

Emphasis was placed on this as opposed to faith alone

What is reason?

300

For two years Thoreau carried out the most famous experiment in self-reliance when he went here to built a hut, and tried to live self-sufficiently without the trappings or interference of society.

Where is Waldon Pond?

300

They transcended by placing importance on this

What are feelings?

300

In literature, this gives us a picture of life as it really is.

What is realism?

300

Many modernists rejected traditional philosophical and religious systems of belief in favor of this, which suggests a meaningless, chaotic, Godless world.

What is Existentialism?

300

This historical event brought the movement to an end

What is the great depression? 

300

The themes of this gothic classic relate to science, poetry, psychology, alienation, politics, education, family relationships, etc

What is Frankenstein?

400

These statements can be classified as this. Bible provided model - individual life is a “journey to salvation.”  Connections between Biblical events and their own lives. Used writing to explore their inner and outer lives for signs of God’s work. Diaries and histories were most common. Plain style stressed clear expression and avoided complicated figures of speech


What are the characteristics of puritan literature?

400

Writers focused on justifying this war

What is the American Revolutionary War?

400

Writers stated that the past is unimportant. Knowledge comes from experience. It is not derived from studying the past. We can’t learn anything truly valuable from the past or from the people who lived before us. Their knowledge was based on their experience, and ours should be too. We should not worship anybody or anything that has come before us. therefore we should place emphasis on this instead.

What is the here and now?

400

This is more important than the masses.

What is the individual?

400

This author had a theme in his writings of introducing children to the evil and immorality.

Who was Henry James?

400

These significant historical events took place during the modernist movement.  

What are World War 1, the great depression, riots, KKK, and World War 2?

400

These published the work of African artists and sponsored literary contests to encourage young artists

What are newspapers?

400

The purpose was to evoke this in the reader because of situations bordering reality/unreality

What is terror?

500

Her works explore religion, a personal relationship with God, and her husband (even though the love between a husband and wife was supposed to be repressed so that there was no distraction from a relationship with God)

Who is Anne Bradstreet? 

500

A shift from a God-centered way of life to this view of life.

What is a man-centered?

500

To rise above the lower animalistic impulses of life (animal drives) and moves from the rational to a spiritual realm 

What is transcend? 

500

The American romantic movement was a rejection of these. 

What are the industrial revolution and puritan religious values?

500

This author said novels “should make you think . . . and shame you into wishing to be a more helpful creature than you are.”

Who is William Dean Howell? 

500

The pervasive sense of this many writers said that they felt led them to leave the U.S. and live in “voluntary exile” in England and Europe.  

What is alienation?

500

The red summer of 1919 was characterized by this

What are race riots?

500

Popular in Southern writing and incorporates local speech and patterns i.e. ain’t, y’all etc. and misspelling of words to display meaning i.e. yuh (you) and lak (like)

What is dialect writing?