Realism

Abraham Lincoln

President during Civil War, not a true abolitionist

Frederick Douglas

Slave freed by friends, wrote an autobiography, abolitionist

Walt Whitman

Repetition, parallelism, catalogs, voice of america

Emily Dickinson

4-line stanza, wrote about death, didn’t leave her house

Edith Wharton

Wrote Ethan Frome, wrote about New England and New York

Mark Twain

Huckleberry Fin, Life on the Mississippi

Jack London

Call of the Wild. Wilderness, Dogs

Stephen Crane

Red Badge of Courage

Columbus to the New World

1492

Jamestown settled

1607

Bradford/Plymouth/Pilgrims

1620

The Salem Witch Trials

1692

Declaration of Independence

1776

The Civil War

1861-1865

The Realism literary period

1865-1900

Antithesis

Using two opposites to make a point

Parallelism

Repeated sentence structure

Alliteration

Repeated first sound - “Peter Piper Picked a Pepper”

Inverted syntax

Backward sentence structure/Yoda talk - “To school I go”

Catalogue

Long lists of something

Slant/approximate rhymes

Doesn’t rhyme exactly but close “Bed and Bad”

Quatrain

4-line stanza