Big Ideas
What is a literary and art movement thats goal was to portray life as realistically as possible?
We learn this about Peyton at the end of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?
What is he has been dead the entire time.
Emily Dickinson's poems really focused on this.
Walt Whitman created this style of poetry.
What is Free Verse?
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?
Emily Dickinson was known for these stylistic choices (name two).
What are Dashes, Slant Rhyme, and Random Capitalization.
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, Feminism, Slave Narratives?
A man and a dog travel the Yukon with much difficulty.
"To Build a Fire"
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, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman?
The opening of Jumping Frog of Calaveras County features this structural feature that tells a story inside another story.
What is a frame story?
Mark Twain uses this stylistic choice often in his stories to place the reader in a particular time and place.
What is dialect?
The one thought on on the mind of Ms. Mallard after her husband's death.
What is "Free, free, free!"
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 unhappy endings?
Walt Whitman's metaphor for life in "O Me! O Life!"
"That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."
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?