Realism General
The years American Realism Took place
What is 1855 -1870?
These are two poets of the American Realism movement.
Who are Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson?
This person delivered the Gettysburg Address.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was the slave who went on to become a leading abolitionist.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This is the attitude of the author about their subject matter.
What is tone?
The thing Realism is all about portraying.
What is real life?
This type of poetry sounds more conversational and has no set meter or rhyme.
What is free verse?
This document freed slaves in the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These were the people who owned and beat the slave whose narrative we read.
Who are Master Thomas and Covey?
This can be described as what is being said in a particular piece of writing.
What is content?
Realism focuses on this over this.
What is groups of people over individuals?
This is a 4 lined stanza.
What is a quatrain?
Aside from freeing slaves, this was the purpose of Lincoln's proclamation.
What is weakening the South?
This was the incident where the slave whose narrative we read realized he could take control of his life.
What is fighting/beating up Covey?
This can be described as the way which the topic of a piece of writing is delivered (how the author is saying what they are saying).
What is form?
This war changed America's taste in literature in this way.
What is the Civil War caused people to see that grim realities of war?
This is when an author lists off of a group of nouns in their writing.
What is cataloging?
These people were the primary audience of the Gettysburg Address.
Who are mourners?
This was the reason the slave whose narrative we read was beat.
What is breaking the ox cart, taking too long to get wood, and/or breaking the ox gate?
These are the four authors we have read about in this unit.
Who are Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Abraham Lincoln, and Frederick Douglass?
Realism attempts to give its readers this.
What is the big picture about the world?
This author rarely left the home and discussed the simply things of life.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This was the reason the Gettysburg address was delivered.
1) What is to dedicate the land as a cemetary?
2) What is to unite the nation and rally the North?
This was the response of Master Thomas when the slave whose narrative we read discussed how he was afraid for his life.
What is disbelief?
These are the types of workers portrayed in "I hear America Singing."
What is blue collar workers?