Sophomore Honors Literary Periods

William Golding's Lord of the Flies, which focuses on the social hierarchy of the boys would..

This movement believed that through language they could reshape the very fabric of the society.

This literary group focused on characterization--a character's internal thoughts-at the center.

Whitman, Blake, Percy, Shelly, Coleridge are all examples from this period

Emerson and Thoreau are authors that would be examples of...

Fleda Brown's "Kitten" which follows the girls inner thoughts would be an example of...

This movement used high level language to discuss low animalistic behaviors like eating and sex

This literary movement was heavily influenced by jazz.

This movement was mostly an urban phenomena interested in city life.

This movement was influenced by social Darwinism and the events of both World Wars.

e.e. cummings, a poet who purposefully refused to use periods or capitalization would fit..

Kafka, Camus, and Dostoyevsky, who all wrote about what gave life essential meaning...

This movement is considered classical literature today and often was written in iambic meter

The group sought enlightenment and believed this could be attained by thinking and meditation.

This group borrowed from classical Greek and Roman literature and culture and infused dry wit.

They thought they were writing in the "common language of man" and nature was a major motif.

Originally written in Greek or Latin.

This group relied on paradoxical imagery like light and dark, waking and sleeping, synaesthesia