Literary Timeline

The practice of storytelling to pass a group's memories, histories, and stories from one generation to the next

• Creation Myth

• Myth

• Storytelling

• Oral Tradition

Like the Puritans, American Romantics were defined by their religion.

• True
• False

The Romantics Period focused mostly on

• politics

• feelings

• religion

• education

Transcendentalism is a _______________.

• literary movement
• social reform movement
• philosophical movement
• all of the above

Where did the Transcendentalists believe that you could find God?

• Nature
• Church
• Inside yourself
• At the flagpole 

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What is Realism. (Multiple Select Question: select all that apply)

• a literature style that focuses on realistic situations

• has unbelievable characters

• includes natural dialect and vernacular

• prominent in the 1700s

During which decades did the Harlem Renaissance occur?

• 1900-1910

• 1920s through 1940s

• 1940s and 1950s

• late 1800s

Where is Harlem?

• New York

• Chicago

• Detroit

• San Francisco

This literary movement gave birth to the short story.

• Gothicism

• Romanticism

• Realism

• Enlightenment

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This movement expanded the fiction genre by introducing exotic and supernatural settings and plotlines.

• Transcendentalism

• Romanticism

• Puritans

• Pluralism

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