Naturalism: nature is so much bigger than nature, man loses against nature, people are the pawns in the game, rich people aren't portrayed as powerless, naturalness died out in the end of the 1940's Realism: history of american literature isn't that long, Modernism: people were happy of the thought that tomorrow was going to be better than today, Genre:weird made up thing, in music it's immediate, you can see it in real time, anyone who writes doesn't sit down and choose what particular style to write in, stereotyping literature instead of stereotyping people, Liminal: refers to a state of being, what you are when you are no longer what you used to be but are not what you want to be, in between phase, Rule Breaker: person who doesn't know the rules, when they broke the rules they most of the time added to the mix, Transcendent: once you know what you are doing you can improvise