Literary Time Periods

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Across
  1. 5. Detailed, realistic, detached accounts of war as if told by an outside observer, Writers questioned authority, conventional values, and the nature of reality.
  2. 7. This was a major historical event at the beginning of the Contemporary time period.
  3. 9. The religious people of the Early American time period were called this.
  4. 12. Accurately represents the speech, manners, habits, history, folklore and beliefs of people in specific, geographical areas.
  5. 15. Poets let objects they rendered speak for themselves. Poets let readers experience the simplicity of an object for no reason than its "this-ness."
  6. 16. This was a nickname for a time during the Regionalism time period that reflected the luxury and excess of a small percentage of Americans and their gross materialism. "The Great Gatsby" is a novel that reflects this age.
  7. 18. He was President during the Realism time period.
  8. 19. He was a prominent Regionalism writer who wrote with a regionalism dialect. One of his stories was "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
  9. 20. The belief that a higher power was helping Americans set a new standard for an ethical life.
Down
  1. 1. The process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing.
  2. 2. People, men and women equally, have knowledge about themselves and the world around them that "transcends" or goes beyond what they can see, hear, taste, touch or feel. This philosophy was a part of the Romantic literature.
  3. 3. This renaissance consisted of a rise in African American artists and writers.
  4. 4. This war was fought during the Early American time period.
  5. 6. A harsh reality concerned with the impact of social and natural forces on the individual.
  6. 8. This sought to re-create an image, not comment on it, but just to present it.
  7. 10. Thinkers began to question previously accepted truths about who should hold power in government which pointed the way to a government by the people.
  8. 11. Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
  9. 13. He was a prominent gothic writer during the Romantic period.
  10. 14. Interest or concern for the actual or real as opposed to the abstract; the tendency to view things as they really are without sentimentality.
  11. 17. Existing or living at the same time; of the same age and date