Tried to capture a particular geographical area’s “local color” for the reader, particularly by the use of dialect.
What is Regionalism?
100
A type of writing that attempts to mimic the random characteristics of the human thought process.
What is stream of consciousness?
100
This famous man's humble and dedicated speech, delivered at a famous battlefield, explained the importance of the war and inspired people to support the Union
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Third person objective and third person limited in "The Occurrence of Owl Creek Bridge
Who is point of view
100
The opposite of a "benevolent" slave master
What is cruel?
200
A literary movement stressing that man has little to no control over his own fate and is completely at mercy to his heredity and environment.
What is Naturalism?
200
A writer's choice and arrangement of words
What is diction?
200
Regionalist author responsible for the masterful satire and dialect of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County".
Who is Mark Twain?
200
Name the kind of conflict between man and nature in "To Build a Fire"
What is external?
200
Part of the lyrics "band of angels" coming after me in "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is the slaves' hidden reference to this group.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
A literary movement characteristically defined by writers' focus on giving a deeper meaning to every element of their literature and a belief that human nature is both good and bad.
What is Anti-Transcendentalism?
300
A personal account of significant historical events
What is historical narrative?
300
The common, everyday people of the town admired and envied this graceful, educated, wealthy man.
Who is Richard Cory?
300
The result of her husband being alive and returning home safely.
What is the real reason Mrs Mallard dies?
300
"its jowls, muzzle and eyelashes were whitened with its crystallized breath" refers to this Jack London character
What is the dog?
400
A time period characteristically defined as finding meaning in everyday events, focusing on the harsh or unpleasant elements of life and making use of dramatic irony, situational irony and stream of consciousness.
What is Realism?
400
A writing style in which an author attempts to capture the the specific regional characteristics of a character's voice. It adds to the local color and authenticity of a story.
What is dialect?
400
Prominent Realist female writer who wrote "The Story of an Hour"--a story full of dramatic irony, situational irony and brilliantly crafted stream of consciousness.
Who is Kate Chopin?
400
At the moment Peyton Farquhar and his wife embrace - he is SAFE
What is hanged?
400
In what year did Lincoln speak these words in his famous Address : "Four score and seven years ago".
What is 1863?
500
Regionalism and Naturalism developed out of this movement.
What is Realism
500
An outcome in a story that turns out to be very different from what was expected by the reader--the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does.
What is situational irony?
500
Famous American Realist who wrote the three part story of a man's racing thoughts as he falls to his hanging death below a bridge.
Who is Ambrose Bierce?
500
Arthur Miller's play which parallels the events of Salem witch trials and Communism/McCarthyism
What is The Crucible?
500
"If not I’ll smite your first-born dead" comes from this Negro spiritual.