This woman was a famous abolitionist and woman's rights advocate who was perhaps most famous for her speech "Ain't I a Woman"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
100
Realism rejects the idealized hero of this particular type of literature.
What is Romantic?
100
This author did not know his age because he was born into slavery and records were not kept on slaves.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
100
Simon Wheeler, Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, Andrew Jackson, and Dan'l Webster
Who are the characters in "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County?
100
Writers and authors use these to make creative comparisons.
What are metaphors?
200
This is the act that imposed stiff penalities on anyone helping a person escape enslavement.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
These are the kind of people that are generally featured in stories that are written by realists.
What is ordinary people?
200
This author earned a reputation as a muckraking reporter, became friends with Mark Twain, and used different points of view to tell his most famous short story.
Who is Ambrose Bierce?
200
Fred Collins of A Company
What is "Mystery of Heroism"
200
This is a struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story.
What is conflict?
300
This woman published an influential novel about slavery called "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
This the social class that most of the characters featured in realists' stories belong to.
What is the lower class?
300
This author was a pioneer of naturalism and gained notoriety for his novel "The Red Badge of Courage". When we studied his short story and his poem, we looked at both situational and verbal irony.
Who is Stephen Crane?
300
Peyton Farquhar
What is the name of the protaganist in "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"
300
omniscient, third person limited, first person
What are different types of point of view?
400
This is the act that promised 160 acreas of land to new settlers.
What is the Homestead Act?
400
These are the types of speech pattens that realist authors use.
What are "everyday" speech patterns?
400
This author is a symbol of the heroic spirit of the Nez Pierce of the Pacific Northwest and began his most famous speech with "Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before, I have in my heart. I am tired of fighting".
Who is Chief Joseph?
400
Mr. Flint, Sally, Linda
Who are the characters in "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"?
400
This is what happens when what actually happens differs from what one expects will happen...and Mr. B. is kind of obsessed with defining this this week.
What is irony?
500
This is the amendment that outlawed slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
Realism originally took root in this place.
What is Europe?
500
This man changed his name and adopted a pseudonym, wore white suits, and was known as the greatest American satirist in American Literature.
Who is Mark Twain?
500
Mr. Covey
Who is a main character in "Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass?"