Realism: an approach that attempts to describe life without idealization or romantic subjectivity

Surrealism: dedicated to the expression of imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and free of convention

Stream of Consciousness – in literature, technique that records the multifarious thoughts and feelings of a character without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence. The writer attempts by the stream of consciousness to reflect all the forces, external and internal, influencing the psychology of a character at a single moment.

Naturalism – in literature, an approach that proceeds from an analysis of reality in terms of natural forces, e.g., heredity, environment, physical drives.

historical fiction, stiff like that i guess