ENG REALISM STUDY GUIDE

What year was AMBROSE BIERCE born

1842

what year was STEPHEN CRANE born

1871

What year was JACK LONDON born

1876

In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Zeal means

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced

In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Idiot means

A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling

In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Bore means

A person who talks when you wish him to listen

In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Circus means

A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool

WHY DID THIS REALISM MOVEMENT COME ABOUT?

A reaction against Romanticism rejected heroic, adventurous, or unfamiliar subjects The harsh reality of frontier life and the Civil War shattered the nation's idealism

In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Novel means

A short story padded

In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Love means

A temporary insanity curable by marriage

what are the writings of regionalism like

ALL the characteristics of Realism plus using regional dialects; ● descriptions of a local area or region; ● local cultures and customs. • Writers attempt to make the reader feel they've been to an area without actually going ther

Who Fought on the side of the Union during the Civil War ● Part of Sherman's March to the Sea Severely wounded and cited for bravery fifteen times • Left the army, moved to San Francisco, began to write for newspapers and Married in 1871, separated in 1888 because he found compromising letters" from an admirer of his wife then he wrote The Devil's Dictionary he left America in 1913 to report on (or perhaps join the Mexican Revolution) had a niece Lora:

Ambrose Bierce

In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Corportion means

An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Cannon means

An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries

In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Clarionet means

An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet — two clarionets

In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Telephone means

An invention of the devil which [has] the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance

what is romanticism taste of class

Aspired to the ideal Thought to be more genteel since it did not show the vulgar details of life

what are realists writings like

Attempts to be objective

what happen in civil war

Battles destroyed farms and homes Cities were bombarded and burned and sherman march

what are romantics characters like

Characters are "larger than life

what are realism characters like

Characters are ordinary people

What did Stephen Crane died of and how old was he

Diagnosed with tuberculosis, he died in a sanitarium inGermany in 1900. He was only twenty-eight years old

what are romanticism writings like

Highly subjective

In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Yankee means

In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown

How did Jack London died

In his later years, London's health deteriorated due to alcoholism London overdosed on narcotics in November of 1916 and lapsed into a coma. ● He died the following evening at the age of forty

Who was As a boy, he was largely uncared for by his parents";• In his teens, he: ● was an oyster pirate; ● sailed on a schooner; ● went seal-hunting; ● wrote for several newspapers; ● prospected for gold in the Klondike left the Klondike after only a year due to illness

JACK LONDON

REGIONALIST WRITERS

Kate Chopin—South • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman—N ew England • Mark Twain—West • Willa Cather—Midwest

what are some additions to naturalism that isn't in realism

Man has LITTLE control over his fate; ● Life is NEVER perfect; problems exist in society; ● Life is ALMOST NEVER fair; ● Good ALMOST NEVER wins over Evil; Nature does not care about the plight of man

who started the LITERATURE OF DISCONTENT

Many groups, from women to freed slaves, started expressing their discontent with the way things were and started writing

what are romanticism plots like

Plot is developed by unusual events, mystery, or high adventure

what are realist plots like

Plot is developed with ordinary events and circumstances

what are romantics settings like

Settings are often fictional or exotic and mysterious (or both)

what are realist settings like

Settings exist or are based on actual places

who was youngest of fourteen children; often ill as a child • First work "published" in 1893 ● Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ● Financial failure wrote The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

NATURALIST WRITERS

Stephen Crane • Ambrose Bierce • Jack London • Edwin Arlington Robinson • Katherine Anne Porter • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • Edith Wharton

what are naturalism themes

Survival (man against nature, man against himself) ● Determinism (nature as an indifferent force on the lives of human beings) violence

In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Vote means

The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country

What is realism taste of class

Thought to be more democratic • Critics stressed the potential for vulgarity and its emphasis on the commonplace • Potential "poison" for the pure of mind

How did the The Industrial Revolution help realist to continue after the war

economic, social, and political changes that took place in post war life

What are characterics of realism

honest, believable characters; realistic dialogue; events in the story that seem possible in real life

Realism is reaction to what

idealise romantic novels

how did the civil war change the writings

life wasn't so nice anymore

what were some of the themes of regionalism

local flavor" or "local color" wrote about the South or the West and humor and small-town characters

Realism appeals to what group of people

middle class

What is realism tone

natural vernacular, not heightened or poetic maybe comic,satrie, or matter of fact

what believed that forces larger than the individual - nature, fate, heredity - shaped individual destiny was extension of realism

naturalism

What were naturalist writings like

pessimistic believed that larger forces were at work: Nature, Fate, and Heredity. Their writing was inspired by hardships, whether it was war, the frontier, or urbanization

Who were writers who sought to portray real life without filtering it through personal feelings, romanticism, or idealism

realism

How did journalist write the civil war

realistic writings and started photography

what does local color mean

reliance on minor details and dialects

what are naturalism characters like

usually ill-educated or lower-class, the criminal, the fallen, the down-and-out lives governed by the forces of heredity, instinct, passion, or environment