American Literature Quiz 5: Realism

Who wrote "Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Emily Dickinson

Meaning of "I Never Saw a Moore"

there is no way to know God is real and she did not accept the afterlife

Who was the turning point poet of American Literature

Walt Whitman

Who wrote Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself meaning

we are all interconnected.

Spider connecting to the lonely soul

The Noiseless Lonely Spider

Characteristics of the Realistic Period

Reaction against Romanticism

The Gilded Age

America is focused on...

Expansion

Materialism

Industrialization

Religion in the Realistic Period

D.L. Moody

Evolution

Higher Criticism

Literary Emphases of the Realistic Period

Ordinary

Accuracy

Common man

Truthful treatment of the real subject

Local color writing

Genres of the Realistic Period

The novel

short story

essay

What was Mark Twain known for

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Notes for which novels was Mark Twain

Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer

Two main things to know about • ⁃ "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

it was a tall tale and a framed story

Noted for her depiction of women in New England

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Who wrote "New England Nun"

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Main character in a "New England Nun"

Louisa Ellis

Who wrote Up From Slavery

Booker T. Washington

Who wrote "A Day's Pleasure"

Hamlin Garland

Who wrote "The Open Boat"

Stephen Crane

Who wrote "To Build a Fire"

Jack London

Wrote the White Heron

Sarah Orne Jewett

Main character name in The White Heron

Sylvia

What does the White Heron represent?

Freedom

Who is considered the Father of American Realism

William Dean Howells

Who helped write a campaign biography for President Lincoln

William Dean Howells

What are the two notable works of William Dean Howells

"The Rise of Silas Lapham" and "Christmas Every Day"

Determinism

Man's fate is determined by outside forces such as society, nature, and heredity

Characterisitics of the Naturalism Era

A subset of Realism

• Part of the Realistic Era, but affected by determinism

• Man has no moral responsibility

• Stephen Crane, Hamlin Garland, and Jack London

• Cosmic Chill

• Tone Softened

• Local Color Character

Who was a french writer

Emilie Zola

Who believed that science of behabior was better than relying on divinity?

B.F. Skinner

Who wrote Lion's Paw

Hamlin Garland

What did local color mean to Hamlin Garland

meant that it is natural and unrestrained art

Verticism

combination of local color with impressionism

Who fought in the civil war?

Ambrose Bierce AKA Bitter Bierce

Major voice of the Naturalist perspective

Stephen Crane

contrast between Realism and Naturalism

Romantic: emotion, passion, imagination, passion

Realistic: objective reality, everyday life, social issues