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Literary Periods of American Literature
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Review of American Literary Eras
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This literary era is concerned with
dialect, specific geography/places and local color.
Romanticism
Naturalism
Realism
Regionalism
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Juxtaposition of the ordinary and realistic with the fantastical & supernatural
Post-modernism Lit Era
Magical Realism Lit Era
Beat Poet Lit Era
Realism/Regionalism/Naturalism
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Part of the Romantic Era--Optimistic & Love of Nature
Modernist Lit Era
Transcendentalists Lit Era
Native American Lit Era
Realism/Regionalism/Naturalism Lit Era
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Many of the works from this literary era were religious in nature
Transcendentalist Lit Era
Puritan Lit Era
Beat Poet Lit Era
Post-modern Lit Era
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Facts not feelings--Nature is treated objectively not spiritually
Romanticism Lit Era
Transcendentalism Lit Era
Modernism Lit Era
Realism, Regionalism, Naturalism Lit Era
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Themes of despair, alienation, and isolation were examined in this literary era
Modernism Lit Era
Beat Poet Lit Era
Harlem Renaissance Lit Era
American Enlightenment Lit Era
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Majority of works are diaries and letters--maybe a report.
Magic Realism Lit Era
Early Settlers Lit Era
American Enlightenment Lit Era
Fireside Poets Lit Era
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Native American Literary Period ended approximately in early 1800's
False
True
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This literary era was a period of outstanding creativity of African Americans
Harlem Renaissance Lit Era
Modernism Lit Era
Beat Poets Lit Era
Postmodernism Lit Era
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Works from this era influenced the American Revolution
Puritan Lit Era
Romanticism Lit Era
American Enlightenment Lit Era
Early Settlers Lit Era
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Reaction against the Enlightenment
Modernism Lit Era
Postmodernism Lit Era
Harlem Renaissance Lit Era
Romanticism Lit Era
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Fireside Poets were Romantics--they focused on local legends & tales like "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
True
False
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Which of the following is the most pessimistic & looks at social struggle, failure of individual, and ugly side of life?
Realism Lit Era
Romanticism Lit Era
Naturalism Lit Era
Regionalism Lit Era
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Majority of these works focus on politics, reason, & common sense
American Enlightenment Lit Era
Puritan Lit Era
Transcendentalist Lit Era
Romanticism Lit Era
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Realism (and Regionalism & Naturalism) are literary movements that reacted against Romanticism
True
False
16
Focus on the individual, nature, imagination... some are dark like Poe
Lit Eras of Realism / Regionalism / Naturalism
Romantic Lit Era
Modernist Lit Era
Early Settler Lit Era
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Fireside Poets wrote many factual reports and made grammars of language
True
False
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Authors from this literary era blur boundaries--truth/fiction & high/popular culture
Transcendentalists
Modernists
Magical Realists
Postmodernist
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Pre-European arrival: Stories were from oral traditions
Puritan Lit Era
Early Colonist Lit Era
Native American Lit Era
Romantic Lit Era
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Bohemian, beatnik--embracing Buddhism, drugs, & jazz
Beat Poet Lit Era
Modernism Lit Era
Magical Realism Lit Era
Harlem Renaissance Lit Era
