Big Ideas
What is a literary and art movement thats goal was to portray life as realistically as possible?
The opening of Jumping Frog of Calaveras County features this structural feature that tells a story inside another story.
What is a frame story?
Summarize Desiree's Baby
The baby is not white and Desiree's unknown origins are blamed. Desiree walks into the swamp with her baby and her husband burns their belongings.
The one thought on on the mind of Ms. Mallard after her husband's death.
What is "Free, free, free!"
People began moving from rural areas and congregating together to form...
What are cities?
Another name for Regionalism.
What is local color?
The woman in "Story of an Hour" supposedly died from this.
What is "the joy that kills?"
Unlike other Realist writers, Mark Twain used this in his writing.
What is Humor?
What is a faithful representation of reality in literature called?
Realism (or Realistic Lit.)
This movement began after this war.
What is the civil war?
What is one sub-genre of Realism and define them?
What is Naturalism, Regionalism, Slave Narratives?
Why does Harriet Jacobs run away in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?
Did not want to go to plantation, hopeful of her children's purchase.
Frederick Douglass said this was the way to freedom and out of slavery.
What is education (learning to read and write)?
The POV narration that is changed once Payton starts to fall in "Owl Creek Bridge."
What is 3rd Person Objective to 3rd Person Limited?
These two main groups of people still had little rights during the Realism era.
Who are women and African Americans?
Provide two writers read during the Realism era.
Who are Ambrose Pierce, Jack London, Kate Chopin, Frederick Douglass, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Harriet Jacobs
We learn this about Peyton at the end of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?
What is he has been dead the entire time.
Mark Twain uses this stylistic choice often in his stories to place the reader in a particular time and place.
What is dialect?
The art of making someone or something look ridiculous, raising laughter in order to embarrass, humble, or discredit its targets.
Satire
The time period of the Realism era (Remember the war dates)
What is 1865-1914?
3 Characteristics of Realism.
What is ordinary people/events, uncaring nature, many details, and familiar settings?
Why did Collins risk his life to get water in Mystery of Heroism?
Peer pressure, desire to prove himself. Anything but thirst.
Frederick Douglass was able to be convince people about how bad slavery was in large part because of this.
What is his first person narration (or personal experience)?
The theme of To Build a Fire deal with the difference between the man's _________ and the dog's ____________.
What is "intellect/knowledge" and "instinct?"
Realism replaced these eras of American literature and why?
What are Romanticism and Transcendentalism because people were tired of writers not portraying the reality of life?