American Literary Movements

Viewed poetry as the highest form of creative expression

• Modernist

• Transcendentalists

• Romantics

• Native Americans

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Broke away from tradition (Abolitionist, Women's Suffragists, Utopian Society)

• Englightenment

• Post-Modernists

• Romantics

• Transcendalists

Highly experimental writing style (stream-of-consciousness)

• Realism

• Modernism

• Romanticism

• Transcendentalism

Cultural movement that began in Harlem, NY

• Transcendentalism

• Romanticism

• Harlem Renaissance

• Post-Modernism

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This literary time period rejected Romanticism.

• Realism

• Revolutionary

• Colonial

• Modernism

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Which of the following periods showed a break from tradition and included strong use of symbols?

• Harlem Renaissance

• Naturalism

• Romanticism

• Modernism

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Urban life and African-American culture were focuses of which time period?

• Harlem Renaissance

• Colonial

• Modernism

• Naturalism

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Which of the following authors became popular during the Harlem Renaissance?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Anne Bradstreet

• Langston Hughes

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Which came first?

• Puritanism

• Native American

• Modernism

• Post-Modernism

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Which movement below focuses on representing life as it is?

• Early Settlers

• Romanticism

• Realism

• Post-Modernism