Realism Test

Gave powerful speeches pressing to end slavery

Abraham Lincoln

Not a true abolitionist – believed in freeing slaves gradually

Abraham Lincoln

Had to keep the United States together despite the slavery divide

Abraham Lincoln

Was President of the United States during the Civil war

Abraham Lincoln

Gave powerful speeches pressing to end slavery

Frederick Douglas

Was taught to read despite it being illegal

Frederick Douglas

Spent 21 years as a slave before escaping

Frederick Douglas

While traveling, his friends bought his freedom

Frederick Douglas

Wrote a narrative about his life bringing international fame

Frederick Douglas

Devoted life to fighting for “full citizenship for African Americans”

Frederick Douglas

Wrote Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

Greatly influenced by the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walt Whitman

Devoted life to poetry – took notes by day, wrote by night

Walt Whitman

Poetic style includes making rhythm with lists, repetition, and parallel structure

Walt Whitman

Wrote the book of poems considered “most influential book of poetry in American Literature”

Walt Whitman

Writing “captured the vitality, optimism, and voice” of America

Walt Whitman

Catalogue writing

Walt Whitman

Rarely left family home in Amherst, Massachusetts

Emily Dickinson

Felt torn between own beliefs and the religious beliefs

Emily Dickinson

Poetic style includes quatrains (4 lines stanzas) and slant rhyme

Emily Dickinson

Poetic style includes unique use of punctuation and capitalization

Emily Dickinson

Used lots of metaphors in writing

Emily Dickinson

Wrote adventures of Tom Sawyer and adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Wrote “A Connecticut Yankee in King Authurs Court”

Mark Twain

Real name is Samuel Clemons

Mark Twain

Wrote satire and setting is mississippi river

Mark Twain

Is Mark Twain a regionalist or nationalist?

Regionlist

Wrote Red badge of courage (most famous work; set in civil war)

Stephen Crane

Is Stephen Crane a regionalist or nationalist

nationalist

Wrote “to build a fire” (short story with theme of survival of the fittest)

Jack london

Wrote “call of the wind” (tame dog forced to revert to his original primitive state)

Jack London

Is Jack London a regionalist or nationalist?

Naturalist

Wrote The Awakening

Kate Chopin

Wrote about the Lousianna Bayou

Kate Chopin

Is Kate Chopin a regionalist or nationalist

regionalist

Wrote about life on the Nebraska prarie

Willa Cather

Is Willa Cather a regionalist or nationalist

Regionalist

Is Edith Wharton a regionalist or nationalist

Both

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

1865-1900s

Antithesis

Using opposites to make a point

Parallelism

Repeated sentence structure

Alliteration

Repeated first letter or sound

Inverted syntax

Sentence order is reversed (To school I go)

Catalogue

Long list of things

Slant/apporximate rhymes

close rhymes but not quite (Bed, bad)

Quatrain

Four line stanza