American Literary 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

What is the literary period that followed the Age of Reason in America?

• Romanticism

• Transcendentalism

• Gothic

• Realism

What years are associated with American Romanticism?

• 1600-1680

• 1720-1800

• 1800-1860

• 1920-1980

This Literary Time Period is known for its disorganized structure

• Naturalism

• Realism

• Modernism

• Post-Modernism

___________ is a literary movement (that branched from Realism) in which writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description and had a focus on the circumstances of middle- and working-class urban life

• Reconstruction

• Naturalism

• Realism

• Regionalism

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