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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Regionalism and Local Color
Naturalism and Realism
J. Alfred Prufrock and Poetry
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These individuals criticize Janie at the beginning of the book
What is the porch-sitters
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is typically an educated observer from the world beyond who learns something from the characters while preserving a sometimes sympathetic, sometimes ironic distance from them
What is a narrator
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This author uses dialect in his short stories to help give us a sense of time and place
What is Mark Twain
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This author wrote and toiled on death in many topics
What is Emily Dickinson
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This author published no poetry in their lifetime.
What is Emily Dickinson
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This is the symbol for Janie's power in the novel
What is her hair
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is integral to the story and may sometimes become a character in itself.
What is Setting
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Why do many characters die in Naturalism stories?
What is they believe they can conquer the natural world
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This made Walt Whitman unique but also popular
What is free verse poetry
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celebrate the culturally rich voices of Janie’s world
What is the long passages of discourse
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Why does Janie love Tea Cake the most out of her husbands?
What is he lets her show off her individuality and does not stifle her
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are marked by their adherence to the old ways, by dialect, and by particular personality traits central to the region
What is characters
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____ emphasizes observation and the scientific method in the fictional portrayal of reality.
What is Naturalism
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Why does The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock explore being left outside of society?
What is will vary
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This is fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region
What is local color literature
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This character is racist towards blacks in the Muck
What is Mrs. Turner
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___ tension or conflict between urban ways and old-fashioned rural values is often symbolized by the intrusion of an outsider or interloper who seeks something from the community.
What is thematic
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This is a major feature of Willa Cather's writing where she indicates the issues of people, women in particular, moving to the west around the 1900's
What is the isolation and removal from the things they love
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Explain why Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are so different.
What is will vary
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This author created many of the typical western characters with The Outcasts of Poker Flat
What is Bret Harte
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This represents the natural world and the idealization of love that Janie has at the beginning of the novel
What is the pear tree
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the difference between ___ and ____ is Economic or political power can itself be seen to be definitive of a realist aesthetic, in that those in power (say, white urban males) have been more often judged 'realists,' while those removed from the seats of power (say, Midwesterners, blacks, immigrants, or women) have been categorized as regionalists."
What is realism and local color
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Upton Sinclair deals with this theme in his story The Jungle.
What is Industry vs. man
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Why does The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock begin with an excerpt from Dante's Inferno?
What is Prufrock's constant state of self-doubt and overanalyzation constitutes a form of hell for him. He can never truly escape his mind; he spends so much time debating himself he has not time to participate in realit
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favored fact, logic, and impersonality over the imaginative, symbolic, and supernatural
What is Realism