Literary Movements

Question 1

Classicalism (Ancient Greek Literature)

Answer 1

written in ancient Greek language - Homer, The Iliad

Eurpides, Medea, Hippolytus

Question 2

Structuralism

Answer 2

elements of human culture must be understood by way of their relationship to a larger, overarching system,
Roland Barthes, Mythologies
Roman Jakobson,

Question 3

Romanticism (American Renaissance)

Answer 3

characterized by symbolism, supernatural, mysterious, sometimes dark tones.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlett Letter
Walt Whitman, Leaves of grass
Eager Allen Poe

Question 4

Transcendentalism

Answer 4

Unique to America 
things & constructs of society were standing in the way of truly free existence,  Through imagination & physical separation, the mind can transcend to enlightenment  Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Henry David Thoreau, Walden 
Margaret Fuller
Emily Dickinson

Question 5

Realism

Answer 5

Literature that reports in a realistic way without judgment.
Henry James
Mark Twain
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Question 6

Naturalism

Answer 6

Born out of realism, Went beyond recording of facts to find the causes for actions and beliefs. People are subject to fate.

Question 7

Modernism

Answer 7

breaks from traditional ideas & celebrates individualism and experimentation 
William Faulkner 
Scott Fitzgerald 
Earnest Hemingway
Virginia Woolf

Question 8

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 8

Challenges of black American were voiced
Langston Hughes
W.E.B Dubois
Zora Hurston

Question 9

Surrealism

Answer 9

Salvador Dali - dream like quality changes images from reality into imaginary
George Bataille,
Giorgio de Chirico