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How would you be able to identify a particular genre from an AP Literature passage?
—Themes, word choice, style, symbols, content, religion, class, gender?...

1. English Literary Renaissance
Elizabethan-The Age of Playwrights
Jacobean
Metaphysical poets
Cavalier poets
2. Commonwealth
3. Restoration

4. Age of Reason
The Age of Prose
The Satirists
5. Romanticism
6. Victorianism
The Rise of the Novel
Realism
Naturalism
Existentialism
Impressionism
7. Modernism
Cubism
Stream-of-consciousness
Surrealism
8. Post-modernism
Multiculturalism
Feminism

Consider the span of Rahel’s life, the good, the ugly, and the sublime. Then, in a well-written essay, examine the ways in which Rahel must confront and return to her past, her family, and to her native India in order to discover some sense of redemption and peacefulness for herself.