Literary Periods Review

Question 1

Period from Jamestown up to the Revolutionary War. Historical, practical, or religious writing.

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Colonial Literature

Question 2

Nathaniel Howthorn and Edgar Allen Poe are both part of the ____________ period of literature.

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Romantic

Question 3

One of the first poets to write English verse in the American colonies.

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Anne Bradstreet

Question 4

Concerned with realistic descriptions of American life. Walt Whitman wrote in this period.

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Realistic

Question 5

Considered a dark romantic writer, his stories are haunting and very anti-puritan in nature.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 6

A literary period grown out of disillusionment and a feeling that the "old rules" didn't apply.

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Modern

Question 7

Includes the writings of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and the “Declaration of Independence.”

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Revolutionary Literature

Question 8

A powerful speaker who was primarily concerned with religious things with a stern view of God.

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Jonathan Edwards

Question 9

Concerned with realistically depicting everyday people. His poem promotes the American Dream.

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Walt Whitman

Question 10

One of the writers in the Modern Era, he became a famous writer in the Harlem Renaissance.

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Langston Hughes

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