American-Literature
REVIEWS FOR TRIMESTER AND COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS cccxl EXAM REVIEW 1 First Trimester Exam EXAM REVIEW 2 Second Trimester Exam EXAM ...
APPENDIX cccxli Most images supplied by the New York Public Library Digital Image Archive. Tap above to see all image credits. R ...
"LITTLE” MAGAZINES Refers to a large number of magazines, each usually with a small number of subscribers, that publish experime ...
ABOLITION A term used to refer to the 19th-century movement to end slavery in the United States. Though abolitionists could be a ...
ALLUSION An indirect reference in a literary work to another work of art, literature, history, religion, or culture. Related Glo ...
CALVINISM A major branch of Protestantism that follows the teachings of Reformation theologian John Calvin (1509-1564). English ...
DISILLUSIONMENT A disappointment, usually accompanied by a loss of faith and deterioration of value when an ideal (such as heroi ...
ENLIGHTENMENT A European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that saw the rise of science as a means to answer ...
ETHOS A rhetorical appeal to the audience’s ethics, or moral sense. This can also take the form of an appeal to authority, such ...
FIRESIDE POETS Name given to an extremely popular group of New England poets in the 19th century. These writers (including Bryan ...
FORMALISM Formed as an outgrowth of modernism, formalism held that the only knowable aspects of a work of art were within the un ...
FREE VERSE Poetry that does not contain a set pattern or rhythmic quantity and does not follow a specific rhyme scheme. Free ver ...
GENTEEL TRADITION Term coined by critic George Santayana to describe the literary establishment of the 19th century. The writers ...
HARLEM RENAISSANCE A literary and artistic movement centered in New York during the 1920s and 1930s. The movement featured the w ...
IN MEDIAS RES Latin for “in the middle of things.” A technique for beginning a narrative at a moment of high drama and action. C ...
JEREMIAD A work that foretells the impending doom of a society or group of people. The term arises from the biblical prophet Jer ...
LOCAL COLOR A trend in late-19th century writing (by journalists, as well as fiction writers) to reproduce as faithfully as poss ...
LOGOS A rhetorical appeal to an audience’s sense of logic. This is a rational, fact- based argument. Related Glossary Terms Inde ...
MODERNISM A philosophical, artistic, and literary movement of the early 20th century formed in reaction to the rapid industriali ...
NATURALISM A literary and artistic movement that emphasized the environmental factors that shape a human’s life and their ultima ...
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