| A | B |
|---|
| Early American (colonial) | Native American literature, oral tradition |
| Early American (colonial) | mostly diaries, historic journals |
| Early American (colonial) | themes: exploration, good/evil |
| Revolutionary | Polictical pamphlets |
| Revolutionary | Political writing- freedom from Great Britain |
| Romantic | Transcendentalism/Anti-transcendentalism |
| Romantic | Gothic writing, nature essays |
| Romantic | Themes: Individualism, nature, simple life |
| Realism & Naturalism | urbanization, industrialization |
| Realism & Naturalism | used dialect and humor, |
| Modernism | After WWI |
| Modernism | During the Great Depression, Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance |
| Modernism | stories about war, business, love, race & protest |
| Contemporary | Innovative writing styles/along with Traditional |
| Contemporary | Themes: science, technology, materialism, changing values |
| Contemporary | post Cold War and Civil Rights movement |
| Early American (colonial) | native american oral tradition, Sinner is the Hands of and Angry God |
| Revolutionary | Thomas Pain's Common Sense, Patrick Henry, Speech at the Virgnia Convention |
| Romantic | Edgar Allen Poe, Henry David Thoreau (Walden) |
| Realism | Mark Twain |
| Modernism | Of Mice and Men |
| Contemporary | Catcher in the Rye |
