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1
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What were apects of Civil War?

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Loss of 1 million/9 million people
Bleeding Kansas: Start of violence between North and South
Dred Scott Decision: said slaves were property
John Brown: Led slave revolt at arsinal

2
Q

Aspects of Gilded Age

A

Unmistakable:
Age of Monopolies
Appearance vs. Reality

3
Q

Aspects of social Issues

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1) Racism
2) Xenophobia: fear of foriegners
3) gender issues (women issues)

4
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An artistic and literary movement fro 1865 to 1914; it is an attempt to potray life as it really is.

A

Realism

5
Q

List the 4 key features of Realism

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1) Focus on Ordinary
2) Character development>plot
3) Analitical authorization. Like reporters (less interpretation for readers)
4) Writes about real social issues of the time

6
Q

Machine and unstoppable force

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War

7
Q

A genre of Realism, specific to a particular region of people

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Regionalism

8
Q

Trying to make written word sound like the realistic language

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Dialect

9
Q

An intensified form of Realism, explores human relationship with environment (deterministic)

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Naturalism

10
Q

Life is determined by external factors

A

deterministic

11
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Uses humor to criticize human weakness

A

Satire

12
Q

The Damn Human Race

author+description

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Mark Twain
A satire about how humans think they are the highest animals but in reality they are the lowest. The story runs test to prove it.

13
Q

Chickamauga

Author+ main idea

A

Ambrose Bierce

Explores appearance vs. reality about going to war

14
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Story of an Hour

Author+ main idea

A

Kate Chopin
Women hears her husband is dead. In reality he is alive.
Women has heart cancer and dies when her husband come home
Main idea is marriage and forbidden pleasures of independence at the time of unequal women rights.

15
Q

Law of Life

author+ main idea

A

Jack London
Old Eskimo Chief Koskoosh is left with a fire to die
He has to accept his fate

16
Q

To Build a Fire

author+ main idea

A

Jack London

A man travels in the Yukon with a husky. The story explores naturalism. The man dies and the dog survives

17
Q

The Open Boat

author+ main idea

A

Stephen Crane
The story explores many themes about humans and the Natural World. It is about 3 men who are in a boat trying to get to shore. In the end the hard worker dies (the oiler)

18
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An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge

Author+ main idea

A

Ambrose Bierce
Story about a man who is being hanged, he is being hanged because he tried to burn a Union bridge down. In the story you think he is getting home.

19
Q

What color is realism?

A

Gray

20
Q

What is individual vs society for realism?

A

Individuals are represented as groups
War is not individualistic
Humans are all in the same boat

21
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What is the American Dream of Realism?

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Focus on reality, the present
Civil Warism
Dream is not equitable

22
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What is Nature in Realism?

A

Unsympathetic
Free will is an allusion
Deterministic on outside forces

23
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What are the Big Ideas of Realism?

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Unified Creation does not exist

Skepticism about universal truths(gray)

24
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Realism started because of this event________

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Civil War