Realism
These two genres of literature are an extension of realism.
What are naturalism and regionalism?
Naturalism contains many elements of this genre.
What is realism?
What is realism?
Sentence is to paragraph as _____ is to stanza.
What is line?
What is the basic information you have to know about the texts from this unit?
This major concept of realism captures what authors and artists were trying to do when starting this movement.
What is attempt to depict life accurately without idealizing it or romanticizing it?
This is the defining difference between realism and naturalism.
What is the idea that humans are powerless to overcome outside forces?
This local writer wrote several fiction and nonfiction pieces about the South, including "My True South: Why I Decided to Return Home."
Who is Jesmyn Ward?
A narrative that is true, but uses elements of narration and storytelling to convey the idea.
What is narrative nonfiction?
Multiple choice, matching, graphic organizers, short answer.
What are the types of questions that will be on the test?
The multiple narrators in As I Lay Dying observe this major component of realist literature.
What is carefully observe everyday life?
Richard Blanco's "One Today" discusses a variety of different workers, places, and events across the country in this descriptive style.
What is an "objective" description?
This author is a transplant to the Florida area, and uses the local landscape and culture to convey themes and ideas, especially stereotypes she sees about the land, in this text.
What is Lauren Groff's "We Contain Multitudes"?
One is HOW the story is told, the other is WHO is telling the story.
What are author's purpose and author's point of view?
3x5, one sided, Calibri 11 font if typing.
What are the dimensions/rules for the cheat sheet you are allowed to make?
This author AND story focuses on character over plot, especially as the narrator must overcome a concussion to protect her children in the Florida campsite.
What is Lauren Groff's "The Midnight Zone"?
Though deeply connected to the history of the South, this poet AND poem have a detached, amoral tone about the South, noting that it's history will long be a part of it.
What is Natasha Trethewey's "South"?
Both Lauren Groff and Jesmyn Ward do this, defining their works as regionalist pieces of literature.
What is focus on setting AND characters equally.
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables used in order to emphasize and highlight a particular tone, feeling, or emotion.
What is meter?
Reviewing your annotations, study guide, and the assignments from each text.
What are the helpful pieces of information to review?
In this poem AND poet in this text uses literary techniques, such as imagery, internal dialogue, and ironic twists to depict a longing for the memory of older generations.
What is Jericho Brown's "N'em"?
*this is not connected to naturalism*
How the question "How does place shape the individual?" connects to this unit.
What is the guiding question?
Faulkner uses this narrative technique in each different perspective he shares in As I Lay Dying.
What is have character speak in dialect and adhere to regional customs?
To determine this literary device, look to the figurative language, word choice, tone, and author's purpose.
What is mood?
Going home and reviewing, including both active and passive strategies.
What is the best way to prepare for the test?