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Title: THE LITERARY TIME PERIODS


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THE LITERARY TIME PERIODS
  • Tiffany Toteno

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COLONIAL
  • Also know as Puritan
  • Foundations of America to 1800s
  • Writing styles plain style puritan writing style
  • Famous authors Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan
    Edwards
  • Book of the time Salem Witch Trials, A Narrative
    of the Captivity, The Crucible

Wood, Laura et al. Elements of Literature.
Austin Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 2005.
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COLONIAL
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REVOLUTIONARY
  • Also know as the Age of Reason
  • Rationalists believed people could improve
    themselves by thinking in an ordered manner
  • Used rationalism in writing and rhetorical
    questions
  • Logos and pathos
  • Form of allusion
  • Famous authors Patrick Henry, Ben Franklin,
    Washington Irving, Thomas Paine
  • Books The Autobiography, Poor Richard's Almanac,
    All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Wood, Laura et al. Elements of Literature.
Austin Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 2005.
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REVOLUTIONARY
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ROMANTIC
  • 1800s - 1860s
  • Individualism was very important
  • Formed the American Romantic Hero
  • Bold and confident writings
  • Started transcendentalism
  • Feeling over reason and imagination over science
  • Authors Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
    Ralph Emerson, Walt Whitman
  • Books Nature, The Black Veil, Song of Myself,
    Leaves of Grass

Wood, Laura et al. Elements of Literature.
Austin Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 2005.
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ROMANTIC
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REALISTIC
  • From the start of the Civil War to 1914
  • Writers started to accurately portray life
  • Used local color, vernacular, humor, and
    naturalism in their writings
  • Authors Fredrick Douglas, Stephen Crane, Jack
    London
  • Books/Poems Narrative of the Life of Fredrick
    Douglas, War is kind, To Build A Fire, A Pair of
    Silk Stockings

Wood, Laura et al. Elements of Literature.
Austin Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 2005.
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REALISTIC
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MODERN
  • 1914- 1939
  • People lost faith in the American Dream
  • Started the Lost Generation
  • Found new themes and styles
  • Characters who behave honorably in a world
    without purpose
  • Inspired by rhymes found in everyday speech
  • Authors Ernest Hemmingway, John Steinbeck,
    William Faulkner, Robert Frost
  • Books The Great Gatsby, Soldier's Home, A Rose
    for Emily

Wood, Laura et al. Elements of Literature.
Austin Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 2005.
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MODERN
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POSTMODERN
  • 1939 present
  • Surrealism, existentialism, traditionalism
  • Literature is open to multiple interpretations
  • Writers are now better trained in writing skills
  • Poetry emphasizes intellectual analysis
  • Authors Alice Walker, Tennessee Williams, Arthur
    Miller, Kurt Vonnegut
  • Books The Catcher in the Rye, Night

Wood, Laura et al. Elements of Literature.
Austin Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 2005.
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POSTMODERN
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