"To Name a Literary Movement" 🕵️
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 life is totally outside your control
What is determinism?
This was the first "battle" of the Civil War.
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 (but also in ways Romanticism) author?
Civil War veteran who wasn't interested in embellishing or beautifying life anymore than it is in reality
Who is Ambrose Bierce (or Stephen Crane)?
This character symbolizes "instinct" in Jack London's "To Build a Fire."
What is the man's dog?
the number of parts into which Bierce's "A Horseman in the Sky" is divided
What is 4?
a contrast between expectation and reality
What is irony?
Jack London
Who is a naturalism author?
an American writer of literary naturalism
Who are Jack London, Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Jon Krakauer?
The man's final hope for fire is extinguished when this occurs in "To Build a Fire."
What is snow descends from the tree branches above and lands all over him and his fire?
a term for someone who opposes slavery and works to eliminate it
Who is an abolitionist?
a particular case where the reader knows important information that a character does not
What is dramatic irony?
Ambrose Bierce
Who is a realism author?
Transcendentalism
Who are Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman?
This French dramatist and author can be considered the "Father of Naturalism."
Who is Émile Zola?
Realism is a reaction to this earlier literary movement.
What is Romanticism?
this storytelling format does not follow a chronological progression of events, whether by the use of flashbacks or otherwise
What is a nonlinear story structure?
Henry David Thoreau
Who is a Transcendentalist writer?
birth name "Isabella Baumfree"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Naturalists believe that this determines and governs human behavior.
What are heredity and environment?
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" addresses this theme on multiple levels.
What is vision vs. reality?
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?