AP Literature: Historical/Literary Movements Flashcards

6537856564	classical	referring to ancient Greeks/Romans (~6th C BCE to 5th C CE), especially the art, architecture, and literature of the empires	0
6537858180	Medieval Period/Middle Ages	period extending from the end of the Western Roman Empire (5th century) until the Renaissance	1
6537859150	Renaissance	the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries	2
6537861502	Elizabethan Age	a period associated with the reign of Elizabeth ! of England (1558 - 1603), considered a part of the Renaissance	3
6537863261	humanism	a Renaissance movement emphasizing the importance of human existence and seeking knowledge and understanding of all matters pertaining to earthly, secular life	4
6537865101	Enlightenment/Age of Reason	an 18th-century philosophical movement that valued reason (progress, science, democracy) and believe that the individual and society could be perfected	5
6537866713	neoclassical age	Era (18th century) of a revival of art/literature characterized by classical ideals of reason, form, and restraint	6
6537869454	romanticism	an artistic and intellectual movement originating from the late 18th century/early 19th century, characterized by interest in nature, emphasis on emotions and imagination, and departure from the attitudes/techniques of the 18th century	7
6537871374	gothic	works characterized by a taste for the medieval or morbid; gothic novels (usually from the 19th century) feature elements of horror, supernatural, gloom, and violence	8
6537873255	realism/naturalism	19th century movement advocating the literal, objective portrayal of reality	9
6537874434	Fin de Siecle	a French term meaning "end of century." The term denotes the last decade of the 19th century, a transition when writers/artists abandoned old conventions for new techniques/objectives	10
6537876789	modernism	the deliberate departure from tradition and the use of innovative forms of expression that distinguish many styles in the art and literature of the 20th century; self-conscious break from previous genres	11
6537878948	Lost Generation	a term used to describe the post-World War I generation of American writers: men and women haunted by a sense of betrayals and emptiness brought about by the destructiveness of the war	12
6537881049	surrealism	a 20th century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings and the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter	13
6537883685	Harlem Renaissance	time in American history (1920s to 1930s) when African American literature, art and music, flourished in New York City	14
6537885545	existentialism	a 20th-century philosophy concerned with the nature and perception of human existence. Followers often believe that the individual is alone in a godless universe and that the human conditions is one of suffering and loneliness. Nevertheless, individuals can create their own meaning	15
6537891665	Theater of the Absurd	a form of drama that emphasizes the absurdity of human existence by employing disjointed, repetitious, and meaningless dialogue, purposeless and confusing situations, and plots that lack realistic or logical development	16
6537893560	postmodernism	period/movement (~1945 to present) which carriers modernist styles or practices toe extremes and/or rejects modernism for new approaches to art and literature	17
6537939453	Beat Poets	group of American writers of the 1950s whose work strongly influenced the cultural transformation of the 60s.	18
6537940902	magical realism	a literary genre in which magical elements appear in an otherwise realist setting also a genre of Latin American literature form the 1960s in which magical themes were combined with realistic subject matter	19