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Historical Events and Writers
Realism, Naturalism, Regionalism
The Awakening
Critical Approaches
Literary Devices
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This major historical event marked a shift in national consciousness that put an end to the previous era's Romantic idealism.
What is the Civil War?
100
Idiolect, Eye dialect, Collloquialism, Vernacular, & Slang are all subcategories of this particular feature of Regionalist writing.
What is dialect?
100
Introduced at the beginning of the novel, this is the dominant symbol of Edna's repression.
What is the caged bird?
100
This approach focuses on the plot of the story and the literary devices/symbols that the author uses and how it contributes to the theme of the story. It focuses on the structure of the story more than anything.
What is the formalist approach?
100
This literary device occurs when speech is written as it is spoken. (ex: berrrrrrrp, buzzzzz)
What is eye dialect?
200
This well-known Regionalist writer was quite famous for his satirical wit.
Who is Mark Twain?
200
This type of literature depicts the everyday life of an ordinary individual as accurately as possible.
What is Realism?
200
This living symbol in novel perhaps represents the illicit nature of Edna's and Robert's "courtship."
Who are the young lovers?
200
A female critic harshly criticizes a novel because it's "too raunchy for the public". This is an example of....
What is the philosophical approach?
200
This literary device usually meant to be funny, intended to insult or shame another, and its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon.
What is satire?
300
This Naturalist writer wrote a famous book about the devastating effects of industrial expansion in meatpacking plants on the lives of its poorer workers.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
300
This type of literature includes the psychological and physical struggles of the individual against much larger forces, like economics and politics.
What is Naturalism?
300
This is what Edna thinks about as she swims out to her death.
What are images of her father or childhood?
300
Edna was repressed & mentally unstable. Edna's superego had gotten so large that it strangled her id until she was forced to rebel against society by falling in love with Robert & having illicit relations with Alcee Arobin.
What is the psychological approach?
300
This literary device is a figure of speech containing an understatement for emphasis. (ex: when someone's arm gets cut off and they say; "it's just a scratch!").
What is litotes?
400
Stephen Crane, Henry James, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton... one of these is NOT a Realist writer.
Who is Herman Melville?
400
This literary style/philosophy concludes that people’s decisions are predetermined by the scientific or natural forces that predispose people to act a certain way.
What is Naturalism?
400
The years that are gone seem like dreams--if one might go on sleeping and dreaming--but to wake up and find--oh! well! Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain dupe to illusions all one's life." ________says this to________
Who are Edna and Dr. Mandelet?
400
Archetypal critics believe that all human beings have these in common.
What are experiences and symbols?
400
"It was rather cold inside the house; but the man was rather cold and crude."; a figure of speech that which the same word is applied to two others in different senses.
What is zuegma?
500
This woman wrote the Realist short story "The Revolt of Mother."
Who is Mary Wilkins?
500
The following passage is a reflection of one of the three literary movements: "She washed the frying-pan with a conclusive air. She scrubbed the outside of it as faithfully as the inside. She was a masterly keeper of her box of a house. Her one living-room never seemed to have in it any of the dust which the friction of life with inanimate matter produces. She swept, and there seemed to be no dirt to go before the broom; she cleaned, and one could see no difference. She was like an artist so perfect that he has apparently no art."
What is Realism?
500
Mrs. Highcamp's daughter has recently returned from this literary event when Edna joins the Highcamp's for dinner.
What is a reading of Dante's Inferno?
500
This approach began with Aristotle.
What is the formalistic approach?
500
One is a direct or formal satire in which the speaker uses a dignified style to attack vice and error with contempt and indignation while the other utilizes a tolerant, amused, and witty satiric voice that gently ridicules the absurdities and follies of human beings.
What are Juvelanian Satire and Horatian Satire?