American Time Periods | Moss

Question 1

The characteristics reflect the way humans think—jumpy, chaotic.

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Stream of Consciousness

Question 2

A foundational or influential text that provides new ideas & shapes the development of laws, policies, or societal norm.

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Seminal documents

Question 3

Which literary period included origin myths and oral literature?

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Native American

Question 4

Realism was a partial response to which important historic event (and the time leading up to it)?

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The Civil War

Question 5

Reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers who claimed to expose corruption in established institutions.

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Muckrakers

Question 6

Which sub-genre of colonial sought to correct the church in the US?

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Age of Faith

Question 7

Which literary movement was a part of Romanticism?

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Transcendentalism

Question 8

Which used an "open form" to focus on characters' thoughts or development rather than action & created grand narratives?

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Modernism

Question 9

Which writers believed that human process was negative if itharmed the natural world?

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Transcendentalism

Question 10

This subgenre features horror and violence set against gloomy, dramatic backdrops.

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Gothic

Question 11

Which of the following are sub-genres of Realism?

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Naturalism & Regionalism

Question 12

Which literary period included diaries, journals, and exploration narratives?

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Puritanism/Colonial

Question 13

Which is the correct chronological order of the American literary periods?

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Colonial, Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism

Question 14

Which sub-genre of colonial sought to set an American identity?

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Age of Reason

Question 15

Which literary period focused on the beauty, wonder, and strangeness in nature?

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Romanticism

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