What is the literary movement Realists were reacting to?
100
Hannibal, Missouri
What is the home town of Mark Twain?
100
1836-1902
What is Bret Harte's lifespan?
100
Oscar Chopin, a French Creole businessman.
Who is Kate Chopin's husband
100
Virginia, Nebraska and Pennsylvania
What are the places Willa Cather lived?
200
Post civil war, urbanization and industrialization
What is the historical context for realism?
200
Steamboat Pilot
What is "The Boy's Ambition?"
200
Established the old west as a popular literary setting, with iconic characters such as the kind hearted prostitute and the suave, cool-headed gambler.
What is Bret Harte famous for?
200
The independence and self-fulfillment of women.
What is one of the theme's of Kate Chopin's writings?
200
O' Pioneers, Song of the Lark and My Antonia
What are the names of Willa Cather's novels?
300
The appearance of truth and objectivity even at the expense of plot.
What is the style of writing in Realism?
300
St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Elmira, Hartford, San Francisco.
What are the cities Mark Twain lived in?
300
"At once the strongest and the weakest of the "Outcasts of Poker Flats."
Who is the Gambler, John Oakhurst?
300
Heart trouble
What is Louise Mallard's malady?
300
Pathetic and grotesque
What is the author's description of Aunt Georgiana?
400
Accurately describing the suffering of the rural or urban poor with the hope that by letting people know of their plight, postive change would result.
What is reform realism?
400
Transforming his observations and experiences as a child into great, uniquely American novels.
What is Mark Twain famous for?
400
Appearance v. Reality and fate or chance.
What is are the themes of "The Outcasts of Poker Flats."
400
First grief, and then a "monstrous joy."
What is Louise Mallard's reaction to her husband's death.
400
By contrasting the beauty of the world of classical music in Boston with the starkness of the Nebraska prairie.
How does Cather capture the loss Aunt Georgiana feels after 30 years on the prairie?
500
Specific, detailed descriptions of actual places, including local dialects.
What is regionalism or local color realism?
500
"When a circus came and went, it left us all burning to become clowns; the first Negro minstrel show that came to our section left us all suffering to try that kind of life; now and then we had hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
What is Twain's description of careers that pale in comparison to being a steamboat captain?
500
1850s California
What is the setting for the "Outcasts of Poker Flats."
500
A "joy that kills."
What is the doctor's diagnosis of Louise Mallard's cause of death?