American Literary Movements

America saw a huge education boom and the birth of many colleges during this literary movement period.

• Enlightenment

• Romanticism

• Realism

• Modernism

This literary movement gave birth to the short story.

• Gothicism

• Romanticism

• Realism

• Enlightenment

Women's rights and women writers came to light during this literary movement.

• Enlightenment

• Realism

• Romanticism

• Native Americans

This is the most current literary movement that focuses on diversity and representation.

• Modernism

• Post-modernism

• Pluralism

• Realism

The belief that one's life is predetermined by God was common in the time of the ____.

• Native Americans

• Colonists

• Puritans

• Americans

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