AP Literature and Composition Set 6 Flashcards

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