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AP Literature: Literary Movements Flashcards

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6309389377Baroquea grand and exuberantly ornamental style0
6309389378Classicisma period that emphasized the Greek and Roman ideals of order, symmetry, and adherence to reason1
6309389379Existentialisma philosophical movement that focuses on the individual human being's experience of, recognition of, and triumph over the meaninglessness of existence.2
6309389380Aestheticismreverence of beauty.3
6309389381Naturalismstyle of writing that rejects idealized portrayals of life and attempts complete accuracy, disinterested objectivity, and frankness in depicting life as a brutal struggle of survival4
6309389382RealismAn author's use of accuracy in the portrayal of life or reality5
6309389383RomanticismLiterature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form. Characteristics include individuality, subjectivity, spontaneity, freedom of rules, solitarily life vs life in society, the belief that imagination is super to reason, devotion to beauty, worship of nature, fascination with the medieval era, the exotic, the supernatural, etc6
6309389384Surrealismemploys illogical, dreamlike images and events to suggest the unconscious7
6309389385Magical realismincludes magical or supernatural events as though they were perfectly normal and ordinary8
6309389386Transcendentalismthe American version of Romanticism; help that there was something in human beings that transcended human nature- a divinity9

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