Match the literary movement/time period with its correct description.

1. puritan/colonialism

2. contemporary literature

3. nationalism/revolutionary period/age of reason

4. naturalism

5. transcendentalism

6. modernism

7. regionalism

8. realism

9. romanticism

10. native american

11. dark romanticism

a. man cannot overcome his fate due to heredity, social condition, or environment

b. followed world wars and was inventive with interior monologues and stream of consciousness

c. celebrates imagination and individualism

d. political pamphlets expressing national pride and desire for independence

e. ethnically diverse literature that deals with current issues or personal challenges

f. creates an accurate picture of the world through details

g. origin myths, chants, songs; identity of a group

h. specific literature of a geographic place with dialect, idioms, customs (local color)

i. early plain writings that were largely religious sermons, diaries, or journals

j. we learn more through our own intuition and can know the whole universe

k. explores the darker side of human nature and the battle between good and evil