In a manner of showing little interest or concern.
What is apathetically?
100
At the beginning of "A Wagner Matinee" Aunt Georgiana is more concerned with this.
What are her chores back home in Nebraska?
100
Many Naturalists were influenced by this theory, in which the weak die and the strong survive.
What is Darwin's theory of Survival of the Fittest?
100
The surprise ending of "The Story of an Hour."
What is Mrs. Mallard's heart attack? (Or that her husband is alive.)
100
Married to Davis, had 12 kids, loved life, lived in Spoon River.
Who is Lucinda Matlock?
200
To form an opinion without definite evidence; to guess.
What is conjecture?
200
Samuel Clemens spent much of his time here, and many of his Regionalist writings, most notably "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," are take place here.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
Naturalism evolved from this type of writing, in which the real world is portrayed exactly as it really is.
What is Realism?
200
When Mrs. Mallard is happy that her husband is dead, it is an example of this literary device.
What is situational irony?
200
He has a broken fiddle, and no regrets.
Who is Fiddler Jones?
300
In a stubbornly persistent manner; obstinately.
What is doggedly?
300
"A Wagner Matinee" is told from THIS of Clark's, not his Aunt Georgiana's. The reader doesn't get to know what she is thinking or feeling because of this.
What is point of view?
300
This literary element provides the conflict in "To Build a Fire."
What is setting?
300
Realism is this.
What is writing that portrays the every day life, rather than a romanticized, flowery version of the world?
300
Samuel Clemens took on this pen name after spending much of his life on a riverboat.
Who is Mark Twain?
400
Nervous anticipation; anxiety; dread.
What is trepidation?
400
A literary device for which Mark Twain was famous for using, along with humor. Words are spelled phonetically, and dialogue is written the way a person talks, rather than in a grammatically correct fashion.
What is dialect?
400
In "To Build A Fire," the man's biggest hurdle in lighting the last fire is this.
What is numbness?
400
This collection of poems features 212 characters, all of whom have a piece of their not-so-pretty life to share with the reader.
What is the Spoon River Anthology?
400
Writer of "The Story of an Hour," she often wrote about issues relating to women's rights.
Who is Kate Chopin?
500
In a slanting or sloping direction.
What is obliquely?
500
Regionalism, or THIS, refers to fiction or poetry that focuses on specific features – including characters, dialects, customs, history, and landscape – of a particular region.
What is Local Color?
500
The attitude with which the man faces death at the end of "To Build A Fire."
What is acceptance?
500
Realism is the response to this movement, in which life is beautiful and idealized.
What is Romanticism?
500
A fictional character with a gambling problem, and a celebrated jumping frog.