What is Regionalism
How authors use it
Who started it
Connections to modern literature
Connections to the Awakening
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Regional literature is stories and poetry that focuses on a characters _____ and ______ that are from a specific region

dialect, customs
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Using dialect to establish ________ of regional characters

authenticity

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What was James Fenimore's first infamous piece of work

The Pioneers, a series of novels

100

Regionalism impacts today’s literature because current authors use _______ description for characters and settings

detailed

100

The Awakening often refers to what kind of cultures?

Creole, or Louisiana

either of these could be correct

200

 is also described as a an “________” in the 1930’s.

Intellectual movement

200

Using imaginative description of usually small, unnecessary

details

200

James Cooper was the _______ famous major american novelist.

first

200

Regionalism in current day literature gives an _________ perspective on landscapes of certain regions

artistic

200

Edna from the Awakening references her ______ decent often 

French

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Regionalism started about when the ________ ended

Civil War

300

Most writers using regionalism focus on _______ of life in their stories 

glimpses 

300

Both of these books are __________ for talking about regionalism

most common

300

Writing in this style has helped people who do not know much about a culture, learn more through ______ stories.

fictional

300

What state is known as the creole state?

Louisiana

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Regionalism and local color is a style of writing that emerged in the late _______

19th century

400

A large aspects of writing with regionalism is 

Nostalgia 

400

He wrote “The ______ ______” (1850)

Scarlet Letter

400

The poets and writers that started this movement to making reading more _________

enjoyable

400

What city were most Creoles based from?

New Orleans 

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With the start of the industrialization and urbanization of America, a new ___________ emerged with this evolution.  

generation of writers

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-Authors also used the depiction of ________, _________, _________, and __________ to help differentiate regions.

dialect, manners, Folklore, and landscape

500

Where was Nathaniel Hawthorn born?

Salem, Massachusetts

500

These writers did this to reject the new era of _______, _______ writing, for ________, ________works

intellectual, philosophical

detailed, artistic


500

Name a culture that Creole culture is based off of

west Europeans, west Africans, and strongly from or Native Americans

any of these can be correct