Credited with starting the Realist Movement, this major event lasted from 1861-1865.
What is the Civil War?
100
Historian James Ford Rhodes said the Civil War had but one cause and this was it.
What is slavery?
100
This writer rejects the idealized, larger-than-life hero of Romantic literature.
What is the Realist?
100
This Realist writer was unsure of his age, separated from his mother soon after his birth and felt that the single cruelest, most barbaric feature of the slave system was the way it broke up families.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
100
A figure of speech that makes an unlikely comparison between two unlike things without the use of a specific word of comparison such as "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
200
This issue was said to have fiercely divided the country and ended in 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is slavery?
200
There was, however, another more important cause of the Civil War that President Lincoln concerned himself with even more than slavery.
What is secession?
200
This writer avoids the exotic, sensational, and overly dramatic.
What is the Realist writer?
200
This Realist author infused his writing with his dark vision of how human life centers on warfare and the cruel joke it plays on humanity. We read his story about the death of a traitor.
Who is Ambrose Bierce?
200
This is the vantage point from which a story is told.
What is point-of-view?
300
Beginning in about 1860, huge numbers of people began moving West. This giant migration was referred to as this.
What is the Westward Expansion?
300
This is the date that the Civil War started. (Hint: The day is the same day as Mr. Brown's birthday)
What is April 12, 1861?
300
This writer attempts to analyze human behavior objectively as a scientist would.
What is the Naturalist writer?
300
This Realist author's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
Who is Mark Twain?
300
This is the literary term for an outrageous exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
400
On April 14, 1865, this major event occurred in Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.
What is President Lincoln was assassinated?
400
This was Ralph Waldo Emerson's response to the war.
What is he was for it because it would end slavery.
400
This writer sees life as a losing battle against an uncaring universe.
What is the Naturalist writer?
400
This author was a pioneer of naturalism and took a definite anti-war stance in his literary pieces.
Who is Stephen Crane?
400
This is a comic device where one says less than what is meant, usually for ironic purposes.
What is an understatement?
500
This generous act in 1862 promised 160 acres to new settlers.
What is the Homestead Act?
500
This photographer was famous for his photos of the Civil War.
Who is Matthew Brady?
500
This writer writes detailed descriptions of ordinary characters and realistic events.
What is the Realist writer?
500
This author was the quintessential naturalist writer and wrote novels entitled "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang".
Who is Jack London?
500
This takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.