AL Realism/Regionalism Authors

Allusion

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

Dialect

A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.

external conflict

A struggle between a character and an outside force

internal conflict

A struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character

direct characterization

Author directly describes character

indirect characterization

Author subtly reveals the character through actions and interactions.

$10,000 for 12 stories- a record for the time

Bret Harte

At one point, this author served as a diplomat in both Prussia and Scotland.

Bret Harte

Condemned the massacre of Native Americans

Bret Harte

The _________________________ was aptly named because of widespread corruption in business and politics.

Gilded Age

Explain why it is ironic that Stephen Crane became famous for his realistic portrayal of a soldier during battle.

He was never in the military and was born 6 years after the Civil War

What two deaths caused Chopin to pursue writing?

Her husband and her mother

Strong Women

Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton

In 1884, he published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Mark Twain

During the Regionalism/Realism period, this author was best known for his/her use of rural African American dialect.

Paul Lawrence Dunbar

French novelist Honore de Balzac is commonly considered the father of _________________.

Realism

Regionalism

an element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of a specific geographical locale, using the locale and its influences as a major part of the plot

Dunbar's dialect poems reflect African American's ______________________ ________________________ in an era of white dominance.

frustrated aspirations

Naturalist writers presented life as a brutal, ___________________ battle between ______________________ and the forces of their ______________________, which could be as diverse as an ______________________ wilderness or a Chicago Factory.

losing, individuals, environments, Alaskan

Some journalist, called _________________, exposed the social problems brought b the urbanization and industrialization.

muckrakers

Did "Local colorists" depict extraordinary and extravagant lifestyles?

no

A later movement known as Naturalism, whose writers sought to describe with scientific _______________ and the effects of _________________ and __________________ on character.

objectivity, environment, heredity

Local colonist depicted the _________________ people and _________________ places around them.

ordinary, everyday

Kate Chopin believed that the role of an artist was to _________________.

rebel

His unsavory characters frequently undergo an unexpected _________________, which provides the narrator with opportunities to make comments on the change.

reformation

Edwin Robinson's poems focus on an individual or on individual _________________.

relationships

From Twain, "My books are water; those of the great geniuses are __________________. Everybody drinks water."

wine

Who wrote The Awakening?

Kate Chopin

In the late 1890's female spinners only made $____________ a week.

5.50

Irony

A contrast between expectation and reality

Paul Laurence Dunbar is best known for his use of rural _________________ _________________ dialect.

African American

Which war had destroyed the Romantic view of humanity?

Civil War

Stephen Crane was attracted to the ________________________________ and other forms of ________________ struggle.

Civil War, violent

First author of gender to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Edith Wharton

This author's incisive fiction helped to establish Realism as the most important movement of her/his time.

Edith Wharton

Which Regionalism/Realism author was known for writing poems focused on an individual?

Edwin Arlington Robinson

In 1889 the _________________ _________________ is completed in Paris.

Eiffel Tower

What triggered Twain's having to become a printer's apprentice?

His father died

Who was the French novelist commonly considered the father of Realism?

Honore de Balzac

By the early 1900's, Americans had transformed the United States into the world's leading what?

Industrial Nation

At the age of eighteen, this author became a drifter by "riding the rails."

Jack London

In 1903, became country's highest paid author.

Jack London

This author established a goal of writing at least one thousand publishable words a day.

Jack London

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Jack London

A famous renegade in 1882, who was killed by his own gang._____________________

Jesse James

In 1882 the renegade _______________ ________________ is killed by one of his own gang.

Jesse James

He/she published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900.

L. Frank Baum

The term used to describe journalists who exposed the social problems brought on by urbanization and industrialization.

Muckraker

The _________________ _________________ of the Great Plains had long depended on the herds of buffalo for food, clothing, and shelter.

Native Americans

Was Crane an only child?

No, he had 13 siblings

Was Chopin overwhelmingly applauded for her efforts on behalf of women in the area of women gaining equal footing in the newly forming United States?

No, she was roundly condemned in her time

In 1884 Mark Twain's _____________________________________________ is published.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The effects of ________________ are widespread and can be seen ______________________, film, the novel, and the painting.

Realism, journalism

A literary movement akin to Realism was __________________, also known as ________ _________ movement.

Regionalism, local color

Died at age 28

Stephen Crane

Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

This Regionalism/Realism author was attracted to war and violence.

Stephen Crane

Who was the Regionalism/Realism author that "lived quickly and wrote fast"?

Stephen Crane

Which Kate Chopin story encountered a negative reaction at first but then became one of the most read novels in colleges and universities across the United States?

The Awakening

Jack London's literary reputation was firmly established with what novel?

The Call of the Wild

Harte was one of the principal shapers of what?

The Fictional Wild West

This novel was Edith Wharton's first novel.

The Valley of Decision

L. Frank Baum published __________________________________ in 1900.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

What were key historical segments of Regionalism/Realism Age?

The political reunification of the North and the South?

What did literary critics of the day think of The Awakening?

They thought it was shocking, morbid, coarse, and vulgar

In 1904 the _________________ _________________ begins the construction of the Panama Canal.

United States

What did Edith Wharton believe discouraged art and the artist?

Upper class society

Which state was the USA's first state to grant women the right to vote?

Wyoming

_________________ became the first state to give women the right to vote.

Wyoming

Was Jack London raised mainly by a family friend and a step sister.

Yes

At twenty-one, Clemens fulfilled his lifelong dream of becoming what?

a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River

epitaph

an inscription on a tombstone or burial place

By the time Crane reached college, he was known more for his _____________________ skills than his writing skills.

baseball playing

Corruption in _________________ and _________________ became so widespread that historians often refer to this period as the _________________ ___________.

business, politics, Gilded Age

Improvements in _________________ _________________, __________________________________, and the Homestead Act made more Americans willing to move to the Great Plains.

farming equipment, the expansion of railroads

Before the 1800's each community set it clock's by the sun's position at ___________ _____________.

high noon

For many, the war had destroyed the Romantic view of _________________.

humanity

Edith Wharton's best fiction satirizes the _________________ of the American aristocracy of which she was a member.

hypocrisy

Realism consisted of writers who attempted to portray people as they actually were rather than _________________ them.

idealizing

By the early 1900's, Americans had transformed the United States into the world's leading _________________ _________________.

industrial nation

Known as Regionalists or local colorists, these writers enriched our literature with new kinds of American __________________, characters, and styles of __________________.

landscapes, speech

Realism

the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth

Jack London's early experiences made him sympathetic toward the _____________________ class and convinced him that capitalist society was ________________ and __________________.

working, brutal, repressive

Between 1880 and 1910, a new type of ________________ appeared in the United States.

writer