Anaphora

Free verse

Southwestern humor

Vernacular

Irony

Frame narrative

Satire

Stream of consciousness

Interior monologue

Jazz/the blues

Minimalism

Genteel tradition

Trickster tale

Realism

Naturalism

High modernism

Post modernism

Harlem Renaissance

Plantation Tradition

Common man

The "mask"/double consciousness/literary subterfuge/the veil

Uncanny

Nihilism

Self-consciousness

The American Dream

Upward Mobility

Southern Belle

"Legacy of the Lost Cause"

Color Line

Loss Of Faith

Class conflict

metafiction

T.S. Eliot:
White, old US family, advocate for High European culture.

Imagism

Carl Sandburg:
one of the leaders of the Chicago Literary Renaissance.

Robert Frost:
used blank verse.

Wallace Stevens:
inescapable subjectivity

Ezra Pound:
always said to make it new

H.D.:
Feminist

William Carlos Williams:
was a pediatrician, rejected free verse and used triadic or stepped line.

William Faulkner

Flannery O'Conner

Tennessee Williams

Allen Ginsberg

Adrienne Rich

Ralph Ellison

Amiri Baraka

Ursula K. Le Guin

Donald Bathelme

Toni Morrison

Art Spiegelman

John Cheever

Ann Beattie

Determinism

New Negro

WASP's/The New Yorker Writers

Consumer Values

Beat Generation

The Southern Renaissance