American Literary Time Periods

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

• Naturalism

• Realism

• Modernism

• Post-Modernism

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

• Transcendentalism

• Puritanism

• Modernism

• Rationalism

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This literature was passed down mainly orally

• Rationalism

• Puratinism

• Native American

• Modernist

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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

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Another name for "The Enlightenment"

• Puritanism

• Transcendentalism

• Modernism

• Rationalism

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

• Rationalism

• Realism

• Romanticism

• Harlem Renaissance

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Viewed poetry as the highest form of creative expression

• Modernist

• Transcendentalists

• Romantics

• Native Americans

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Highly experimental writing style (stream-of-consciousness)

• Realism

• Modernism

• Romanticism

• Transcendentalism

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Cultural movement that began in Harlem, NY

• Transcendentalism

• Romanticism

• Harlem Renaissance

• Post-Modernism