American Lit Timeline
This Literary period lasted from about 1607 - 1830.
What is the Colonial Period?
Believable characters, real conversations, and common experiences.
What is, "What realist writers tried to show"?
Nature, environment, and circumstances
What is, What Naturalist writers believe shape a person life?
This conflict where the US was a nation divided. Battles, hardship, death, etc. was all around.
What was the Civil War?
In order to foster empathy and awareness among readers of different classes.
Why did authors stress social issues during the Realist and Naturalist Period?
The play we read by Arthur Miller that depicted life during the Salem Witch Trials in 1692.
What is "The Crucible"?
To help readers understand society and human behavior as it truly existed.
What is the goal of realism?
Poverty and social class
What are examples of Naturalist circumstances?
After the war, this time influenced writers to depict real examples of how the nation was healing and coming back together.
What is "Reconstruction"?
Some aspects of everyday life that were depicted in Realist and Naturalist writing were...
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The literary period that focused on beauty, love, individuality, nature, the supernatural, etc.
What is the Romantic Period?
Wanted to bring people back to reality and remind them that we do not live in a dreamland.
Forces they cannot control.
What are things that characters in the Naturalist period often struggle against?
This influence brought much creativity, new inventions, and a rise in the working class.
What is "Industrialization"?
What are Environment and Heredity.
What period of literature caused the shift into the Romantic/ Gothic Literature period?
What is "Enlightenment"?
Showing life as it really was, not as people wished it to be.
What is the focus of Realism and Naturalism?
Serious or Pessimistic
What do Naturalis stories often feel like?
These are ways the Civil War and Reconstruction influenced writers and readers during this time.
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Wealth, education, and occupation.
What were different classes defined by?
The literary period that follows the Romantic/ Gothic period.
What is "Realism and Naturalism"?
To portray life honestly and accurately
What is, what did Realism try to do?
One reason "Frankenstein" was not a Realist or Naturalis story?
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This person influenced writers who incorporated ideas of environment and heredity into their works. (Nature shapes who we become.)
This type of writing of is usually where the narrator of the story acts as an impartial storyteller. It may sound like a "Fly-on-the-wall" sharing the events because we don't know their inner thoughts or feelings.
What is Objective Narration?