AP American Literature Timeline:Terms and Info – Flashcards
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Revolution/ Independance from Britain
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described as Age of Reason people believed the universe was a well-ordered place understood through reason
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Native American traits
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myths focused on origins of all things, tribal traditions and rituals celebrate the natural world practiced oral tradition
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Puritans & The Great Awakening
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sermons and poetry were forms of lit explore the spiritual world
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Sttlers
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recprded experiences through narrative accounts, diaries, and journals
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Puritans
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Anne Bradstreet William Bradford Jonathan Edwards
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Settlement and Slavery
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John Smith
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Revolution/ Independence
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Thoms Paine
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Romanticism, Dark Romanticism, and Transcendentalism
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1800's - mid 1800's
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Technology growth
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railroads, factories, telegraph, steamboat
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Bright Romanticism
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Valued nature, emotion, imagination, & individuality optimistic
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Dark Romanticism
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focued on negative aspects of nature, emotion, imagination, & individualism pessimistic wrote in gothic style
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TRanscendentalism
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valued the individual mind above all else - believed self -reliance & individuality very important also valued nature believed in the idea of an over-soul
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Bright Romantics
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The Fireside Poets - Henry Longfellow, Oliver Holmes, etc.
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Dark Romantics
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Edgar A. Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving
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Transcendentalists
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
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Realism and Naturalism
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1850's - early 1900's
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The Gilded Age
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stark contrast b/w the wealthy industrial giants & the lower, working class
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Realism
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fiction depicted real-life settings, events, situatiohns, and characters life was portrayed hinest,objective, and factual diction used was the natural dialect of the time local color writing was popular humor and satire became more prominant
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Naturalism
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same traits as Realism except for one central theme: Forces more powerful than the individual shaped human destinies (no control over ones fate)
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Realists
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Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, etc.
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Naturalists
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Jack London, Stephen Crane, etc.
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Modernism
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Early 1900's - 1950's
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Modernism historical period
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WWI the roaring twenties the harlem renaissance and jazz the great depression WWII womens right to vote continued technology growth
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Modernism themes and traits
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captured essence of modern life theme of disillusionment prevailed themes were more indirect new writing techniques and rule breaking
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MOdernists
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Robert Frost, WIlliam Faulkner, etc.
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The Expatriates
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, etc.
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The Harlem Renaissance
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Langston Hughes
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Post-Modernism
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1950's - 1970's
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Post-Modernism history
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post - WWII issues (atomic bomb) the cold war the space race civil rights movement womens rights movement korean/vietnam wars growth of suburbs
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Post-Modernism literary themes and Authors
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subjects of the day like racial equality, gender equality, protest, social questions themes of the american dream and pursuit of happiness themes of lost innocence & coming of age regional literature Arther Miller J.D. Salinger
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Contemporary
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1970's - present day
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Contemporary history
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9/11 political distrust computer technology growth (internet)
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Contemporary literary themes
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more diversity of authorship/ more diverse literature (age,race,religion,nationality,culture,occupation,politics,class,etc.) themes of identity, sucess, and family; truth vs. illusion blend of fiction and non-fiction different versions of American non-traditional literature
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Contemporary authors
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Amy Tan, David Eggers, John Updike, etc.
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