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| 7895994714 | Neoclassicism | The revival of classical standards and forms during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. | 0 | |
| 7895994715 | Imagism | A twentieth-century movement in poetry, lead by Ezra Pound, which advocated the creation of hard, clear images, concisely written in everyday speech. | 1 | |
| 7895994716 | Impressionism | A nineteenth-century movement which advocated a recording of the artist's personal impressions of the world, rather than a strict representation of reality. | 2 | |
| 7895994717 | Naturalism | A nineteenth-century movement that was an extension of realism and that claimed to portray life exactly as it was. | 3 | |
| 7895994718 | Romanticism | A literary and philosophical movement that developed during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a reaction against neoclassicism. | 4 | |
| 7895994719 | Symbolism | A literary movement that began in France during the late nineteenth century and advocated the use of highly personal symbols to suggest ideas, emotion, and mood. | 5 | |
| 7895994720 | Realism | In literature and art, the attempt to depict people and things as they really are, without idealization. | 6 | |
| 7895994721 | Absurdism | Literature that displays the efforts of humanity to find meaning in the universe ultimately as having failed because no such meaning exists. | 7 | |
| 7895994722 | Regionalism | Literature that emphasizes a specific geographic setting and that reproduces the speech, behavior, and attitudes of the people who live in that region. | 8 | |
| 7895994723 | Rationalism | A movement during the seventeenth century which held that we can arrive at truth by using our reason rather than relying on the authority of the past, on the authority of the Church, or on intuition. | 9 | |
| 7895994724 | Surrealism | A movement during the 1920s that wanted to replace conventional realism with the full expression of the unconscious mind, which they considered to be more real than the "real" world of appearances. | 10 | |
| 7895994725 | Transcendentalism | A nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truth through spiritual intuition, which transcends reasons and sensory experience. | 11 | |
| 7895994726 | Gothic | Fiction in which Romantic ideals are combined with an interest in the supernatural and in violence. | 12 | |
| 7895994727 | Modernism | Variegated movement of the early 20th century, encompassing primitivism, formal innovation, or reaction to science and technology. | 13 | |
| 7895994728 | Postmodernism | Postwar movement skeptical of absolutes and embracing diversity, irony, and word play. | 14 |
