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| Classicism - Authors | Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin |
| Romanticism - Authors | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville |
| Transcendentalism - Authors | Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Realism - Authors | Arthur Miller, Mark Twain, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Robinson, Masters |
| Naturalism - Authors | Stephen Crane, William Golding, London, Dreiser, Norris |
| Transcendentalism - Definition | A philosophy that requires human beings to go beyond reason in their search for truth. |
| Naturalism - Definition | An extreme form of realism in which the author tries to show the relation of a person to the environment or surroundings. |
| Realism - Definition | Literature that attempts to represent life as it really is. |
| Romanticism - Definition | A literary movement with an emphasis on the imagination and emotions. |
| Classicism - Definition | Emphasizes the traditional and the universal, placing value on reason, clarity, balance, and order. |
