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