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Realism
What Does This Mean?
Authors and Literature
Other Genres
This and That
100
Pivotal historic event
What is the Civil War?
100
protagonist
What is the main character?
100
wrote the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
Who is Mark Twain?
100
creation myths and legends
What is Native American literature?
100
the last sentence of the first paragraph which states the subject of the essay
What is the thesis statement?
200
two branches of Realism
What is Naturalism and Regionalism
200
denotation
What is the dictionary meaning of a word?
200
The state which was the setting for "Lonesome Dove"
What is Texas?
200
believed in logic and science
What is Rationalism?
200
over 600,000
What is the number of soldiers killed in the Civil War?
300
In Naturalism, the forces that determine fate
What is nature, heredity, society?
300
connotation
What is an accepted meaning of a word?
300
The first truly American novel
What is "The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn"?
300
believed God was angry and were angry
What is Puritanism?
300
Civil War, slavery, westward expansion
What factors lead to Realism?
400
Realism archetype
What is the "ordinary man" with flaws
400
the thought process of a character, workings of the mind
What is stream of consciousness?
400
As the protagonist was hung he imagined a different outcome
What is "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"?
400
Edgar Allen Poe's genre
What is Dark Romantic?
400
What started the Second Industrial Revolution?
What is electricity?
500
writing about a specific area, its culture, dialect, beliefs, etc.
What is Regionalism?
500
sayings exclusive to a certain region
What is colloquialism?
500
the soldier's loss in "An Episode of War"
What is his arm?
500
the spiritual branch of the Romantics
What is transcendentalism?
500
Homestead Act (land), mining, and cattle
What are the three reasons people went west?