"To Name a Genre"
Edgar Allan Poe
Who is a Romanticism author?
Realism
Who are Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, Sojourner Truth, Mark Twain?
this term refers to the idea that Fate decides your life, not you
What is determinism?
Mary Chesnut describes the events surrounding this "battle" in the diary entries which we read
What was the Battle of Fort Sumter?
these are the two basic types of conflicts in literature
What are internal and external conflicts?
Mary Chesnut
Who is a Realism author? (diary entries)
Civil War veteran who wasn't interested in embellishing or beautifying life anymore than it is in reality
Who is Ambrose Bierce?
this character symbolizes "instinct" in Jack London's "To Build a Fire"
What is the man's dog?
the number of parts which Bierce's "A Horseman in the Sky" is divided into
What is 4?
a contrast between expectation and reality
What is irony?
Jack London
Who is a Naturalism author?
Naturalism
Who are Jack London, Frank Norris, Stephen Crane?
the man's final hope for fire is extinguished when this occurs in "To Build a Fire"
What is the descent of snow from the tree branches above the man?
the horseman's flight might be an allusion to this
Who are the horseman of the apocalypse from Revelation 6?
a particular case where the reader knows important information a character doesn’t
What is dramatic irony?
Ambrose Bierce
Who is a Realism author?
Transcendentalism
Who are Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, Whitman?
According to the narrator, this is the actual temperature during the "To Build a Fire."
75 degrees below zero 🥶
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" addresses this theme on multiple levels
What is vision vs. reality?
when a story does not follow chronological progression of events
What is a nonlinear story structure?
Henry David Thoreau
Who is an author of Transcendentalism?
she was born "Isabella Baumfree"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Naturalists believe that this determines and governs human behavior.
What is heredity and the environment?
Realism is a reaction to this earlier literary movement
What is Romanticism?
narration technique used to capture the chaotic nature of the human thought process, jumping from one idea to another without transition
What is "stream of consciousness?"