American Literary Movements

Emphasized free thought and self-reliance

• Romanticism

• Transcendentalism

• Neoclassicism

• Realism

devoted to representing regular, ordinary people in everyday life

• stream of consciousness

• Revolutionary Movement

• Transcendentalism

• Realism

rebirth of African American arts

• Harlem Renaissance

• Beat Movement

• Postmodernism

• Realism

Who was one of the leading authors of the Harlem Renaissance movement?

• Ezra Pound

• Ernest Hemingway

• Langston Hughes

• Robert Frost

Puritanism could BEST be described as

• an English form of Catholicism.

• an evil force in America.

• a Protestant person in England.

• a religious movement.

A Transcendentalist’s View of the World is:

• God is revealed in all humans and in nature

• God has already decided our fate

• Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of evil

• Love and happiness are the most important things.

Which of the following is NOT a value of the Romantic Period?

• imagination

• self expression

• reason

• intuition

Which word would BEST describe Romanticism?

• practical

• fantastical

• animalistic

• functional

In which movement did the Harlem Renaissance occur?

• Realism

• Modernism

• Romanticism

• Puritanism

The writing from this time period focused oon mystery and the supernatural.

• Colonialism

• Dark Romanticism

• Post Modernism

• Contemporary