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Literary Periods
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Literary Period in which Puritans colonize New England? | Colonial |
| Notable Authors in Colonial/Puritan Period? | John Withrop and Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Literary Period in which the U.S. gained it's independence from England? | Revolutionary |
| Notable Authors in Revolutionary Period? | Ben Franklin |
| Literary Period in which the Industrial Revolution occurred and is classified by the key word Emotion? | Romanticism Period. |
| Notable Authors in Romanticism Period? | Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Emily Dickson. |
| Literary Period that was created by philosopher Immanuel Kant and is based off of being spiritual and one with nature? | Transcendentalism Period |
| Notable Authors in Transcendentalism Period? | Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. |
| Literary Period that occured during the Civil War and based on the truth and actual reality? | Realism Period |
| Notable Authors during Realism period? | Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Willa Cather. |
| Literary period that occured during the Industrial Revolution and focused on the lower class and poverty. | Naturalism Period |
| Notable Author during Naturalism Period? | Jack London |
| Literary Period that occured during WW1, The Great Depression, and The Great Migration and focused on racial Equality? | The Harlem Renaissance |
| Notable Author during the Harlem Renaissance? | Langston Hughes |
| Literary Period that occured during Women's Suffrage, The stock market crash, and WW2 and focused on the American Dream? | The Modern Period |
| Notable Authors during the Modern Period? | Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. |
| Literary Period that occured during the Korean and Vietnam war? | Post-Modernism Period |
| Notable Authors during Post-Modernism period? | Beat Poets: Kerouac, Jed Salinger, and Arthur Miler |