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Literary periods
Characteristics of literary era
Titles of stories
Literary devices
Writing styles
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This period took place before 1607 and contained stories by Native cultures.
What is The Pre-colonial period?
100
Many political documents including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
What is The REVOLUTIONARY period.
100
The first story we read about the earth's creation.
What is "The earth on turtle's back?"
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 poem about the "housework" by Edward Taylor.
What is "huswifery?"
200
The attitude of the writer towards the story or characters.
What is TONE
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 of simple talking about everyday life.
What is REALSIM?
300
This is Realism.
What is a simple style which talks about everyday life?
300
A strong and visually scary sermon by Jonathan Edwards.
What is "Sinners in the hands of an angry God?"
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
Taking place after the Civil War up until 1900, this period included poet, Emily Dickinson, and writers Ambrose Bierce and Mark Twian.
What is Realism?
400
The Pre-colonial period.
What is an oral tradition with origin myths?
400
A story about a man who makes a deal with the devil.
What is "The Devil and Tom Walker?"
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 took place between WWI and WWII when American writers left the U.S.
What is The Lost Generation?
500
Post-modernism.
What is a period of diverse multicultural writing?
500
The title of one of Emily Dickinson's poems about the moments before a death when an insect interrupts.
What is "I heard a fly buzz when I died?"
500
This is the repetition of the first letter or sound of 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?