American Time Periods
1870-1910
What is Naturalism and Modernism
Movements which challenged everything. Everything was in question
What is Modernism?
a character that remains the same throughout the story
What is a flat or Static character?
subjects and verbs must agree in
What is tense and number
how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought.
What is Syntax
1607-1775
What is native American and Colonialism
The creation of America. This time period was marked by the Foundation documents.
When a writer makes a reference to another well known work
what is an allusion
the word that the pronoun replaces or renames
What is an antecedent
William Bradford and John Smith are from what literary time period
What is the Colonial/Puritan period
1910-Present
What is modernism/post-modernism
Wanted to show the brutal, honest truth of the world
What is Realism/Naturalism
the repeating grammatical structure
what is parallelism/parallel structure
the following sentence is an example of what?
“I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.”
what is Parallelism/Parallel structure
What were the two major groups of the Romantic period
who where the Dark Romantics and the transcendentalism
1765-1790
What is the Revolutionary Period
Believed in emotion over reason. Thought the truth could be found in the imagination.
What is Romanticism
Excessive pride that usually leads to the character's downfall
What is hubris
Use this punctuation mark to take the place of a comma and a conjunction when joining clauses.
what is a semicolon
according to transcendentalism, they believed that good will always win over evil. what is this called
what is the law of compensation
1830-1870
What is Romanticism
what is the Colonial period
a physical object that represents something larger and more abstract than it actually is
What is a Symbol/Symbolism
what is the pronoun and antecedent in the following sentence:
Johnny went to the store to buy himself some groceries
antecedent is Johnny
technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society, by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule. It intends to improve humanity by criticizing its follies and foibles
What is Satire