Literary Periods Review

Stephen King; James Patterson

Reaction against Romanticism- Wanted to write about life as it really was

Which literary period is concerned with living a pure, godly life?

Occurred during Civil War Reconstruction; wrote with dialect and specific setting

Jack London; Stephen Crane

Which period includes Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne?

ee cummings; TS Eliot

Mark Twain; Kate Chopin

Uses logic and facts to persuade; speeches and political pamphlets were main forms of literature

Focuses on imagination and inspiration; reaction against Age of Reason

Period that includes Langston Hughes and took place in the 1920s

Closely related to realism, but the focus is on how nature will always win

Most figures during this time were abolitionists (against slavery)

Thomas Paine; Thomas Jefferson

Hard to define; focuses on fiction and non-fiction narrative. Concentrates on major problems of each decade.

Which period was a celebration of African-American culture?

Which is the correct order for the next four?

What is the correct order for the final three?

Which literary period used sermons, essays, and journal entries?

Writing style is experimental, including stream of consciousness; rejects all rules

Which is the correct order of the first four literary periods?

Nature brings inspiration and is the only way to understand oneself

F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemingway

Period that includes Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, and William Bradford

Walt Whitman; Emily Dickinson

Occurred during WWI and WWII, as well as the Great Depression

Ralph Waldo Emerson; Margaret Fuller