American Literary Time Periods

This Literary Time Period spans from the 1950's to today

• Naturalism

• Realism

• Modernism

• Post-Modernism

This literary time period will ALWAYS include a reference to scripture, God, or religion

• Transcendentalism

• Puritanism

• Modernism

• Rationalism

These writers viewed death as an escape from problems.

• Romantics

• Transcendentalists

• Puritans

• Post-Modernists

This literature was passed down mainly orally

• Rationalism

• Puratinism

• Native American

• Modernist

Believe that both nature and people hold the divine within themselves

• Harlem Renaissance

• Modernism

• Transcendentalism

• Puritanism

This literary time period sought to display life as it really was without all the frills and metaphors

• Realism

• Rationalism

• Modernism

• Harlem Renaissance

Another name for "The Enlightenment"

• Puritanism

• Transcendentalism

• Modernism

• Rationalism

Creationist tales that closely parallel the Christian creation story are most likely indicators of

• Post-Modernism

• Modernism

• Native American

• Romanticism

Original Sin

• Transcendalists

• Puritanism

• Realism

• Rationalism

Legal Documents that talk about rights of man, states right, and the logistics of founding a new nation

• Rationalism

• Realism

• Romanticism

• Harlem Renaissance