The literary era that immediately preceded the modernist movement is known as the Victorian era. This period was characterized by a focus on realism, social issues, and moral values, which eventually gave way to the experimental and fragmented style of modernist literature.
Neoclassicism preceded Romanticism.
Romantic and Victorian
Romantic and Victorian
Romantic era and Victorian Era
The Beatniks of the 1950's preceded the Hippies of the 1960's.
The brown shirts were a Nazi movement that just preceded WW2.
Fauvism was preceded by the post-impressionists, primarily van Gogh and Gauguin.
Expressionism and cubism are two movements which preceded surrealism. But Surrealism came from the movement Dada, as Andre Breton needed to find a purpose to the anti-art movement, to make sense of the war ravaged world.
Herbert Hoover preceded Franklin Roosevelt.
It's a style in art, architecture, and the decorative arts that flourished in Europe and North America from about 1750 to the early 1800s, marked by the emulation of Greco-Roman froms.
metaphorIf the comparison is preceded by 'like' or 'as' it is a Simile.If the cave is called a whale's stomach directly, the figure-of-speech is a Metaphor.
The iPhone 5 was preceded by the iPhone 4S.