Regionalism/Realism/Naturalism

Question 0

Local Color/Regionalism 
Traits? 
1. 
2.
3.

Answer 0

1. Dialect/vernacular
2. Character types
3. Local customs

Question 1

Local Color/Regionalism 
Causes? 
1.
2.
3.

Answer 1

1. Expansion
2. Independent American spirit
3. Writers liked showing differences

Question 2

Local Color/ regionalism

Positives?

Answer 2

Diversity
Uniqueness
Pride

Question 3

Local Color

Negatives ?

Answer 3

Prejudices
Stereotypes
Isolation
Not United

Question 4

Local Color and Regionalism = ?

Answer 4

An important transition between Romanticism and Realism

Question 5

Naturalism:

Darwins theory ?

Answer 5

Survival of the fittest

Question 6

Naturalism

Humans?

Answer 6

Are victims of forces they can’t control

Writers depicted events determined by forces : heredity and environment

Question 7

Naturalism

Instinct ?

Answer 7

Natures gift

Work w/ nature to survive

Question 8

Naturalism

God?

Answer 8

Cold and indifferent

Question 9

Naturalism

Man?

Answer 9

Nameless, insignificant, struggles for survival

Question 10

Naturalism?

Answer 10

Extreme form of realism

Question 11

Realism

Answer 11

Focused on facts 
Records events as they happened 
Civil war/ industrial revolution
Depressing 
Slice of life

Question 12

Verisimilitude

Answer 12

Truthful treatment of material

Question 13

Whitman

Works?

Answer 13

Leaves of Grass
There Once was a Child that Went Forth 
O captain, my captain 
Wrote about Abraham Lincoln 
One's-Self I Sing 
I hear America singing 
 Noiseless patient spider 
Beat beat drums

Question 14

Whitman

Used ?

Answer 14

List
-ing
And
The

Question 15

Fredrick Douglass

Works ?

Answer 15

North Star
Underground Railroad
My bondage and my freedom

Question 16

Douglass

Facts

Answer 16

Taught himself to read/write
Escaped slavery
Lectures abroad

Question 17

Bret Harte

Works

Answer 17

Overland
Luck of Roaring camp
Outcasts of poker Flat

Question 18

Bret Harte

OUTCAST OF POKER FLAT

Answer 18

Stereotypical characters 
Mr. Oakhurst 
Mother shipton 
The duchess 
The innocents 
Uncle Billy

Question 19

Jack London

Works

Answer 19

To build a fire
The sea-wolf
Call of the wild

Question 20

Jack London

Influences ?

Answer 20

1. Nature in harsh form

2. Humans struggling with each other

Question 21

About Jack London

Answer 21

Little schooling
Many jobs 
Learned from different experiences 
Strange family 
Predicted and commuted his own suicide 
Naturalism

Question 22

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Wrote?

Answer 22

Poems in traditional stanzas
Miniver Cheevey
Richard Corey

Question 23

E. A. Robinson

Facts

Answer 23

Gardner Maine = tilbury town
Won Pulitzer Prize 3x
Greatest living American post 1920s
Themes= unhappiness and diminished opportunities

Question 24

Civil war

Answer 24

1861-1865

Question 25

Inventions during the time

Answer 25

Telephone Telegraph Railroad

Question 26

Population growth?

Answer 26

Immigration

Question 27

What did American reform focus on

Answer 27

Industrial problems

Question 28

Historians called this the ?

Answer 28

Age of Robber Barons Guided Age Great Barbecue