Unit 8

Question 0

What years did realism and naturalism appear?

Answer 0

1865-1914

Question 1

What event marked the end of the literary period characterized by the emergence of realism and naturalism?

Answer 1

The beginning of WWI

Question 2

What were 2 major forces of change following the Civil War Period?

Answer 2

Rapid industrialization and Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

Question 3

The rapid growth of industrialization following the Civil Was resulted in what three things?

Answer 3

Growth of new towns
Growth of labor unions
Assumption of leadership by American businessmen

Question 4

What grew because of immigrants, Southern Black Americans, and discouraged farmers?

Answer 4

Large cities

Question 5

Where did higher criticism originate?

Answer 5

German seminaries and universities

Question 6

What is evil a result of according to the social gospel movement?

Answer 6

Society’s corrupt institution

Question 7

What two evangelist had an impact in the revival movement?

Answer 7

Dwight L. Moody

Billy Sunday

Question 8

What were the three major groups of writers?

Answer 8

Regionalists, realists, and naturalists

Question 9

Regionalists served as transitionalists between what two major groups of writers?

Answer 9

Major romantics and major realists.

Question 10

Who were the masters of realism?

Answer 10

Howells, James, and Clemens

Question 11

Howell’s writings embodied what?

Answer 11

The middle class spirit

Question 12

What did James’ writings embody?

Answer 12

The comsopolitan or international spirit

Question 13

Clemens’ writings embodied what?

Answer 13

The frontier spirit

Question 14

What were the group’s of realists that were more romantic than realistic?

Answer 14

Local Colorists

Question 15

Are best described as they believed that life was controlled by inexplicable forces.

Answer 15

Naturalists

Question 16

What was the prevailing spirit at the end of the literary period of realism and naturalism?

Answer 16

One of pessimism

Question 17

Harte gained fame with the publication of what work?

Answer 17

“The Luck of the Roaring Camp”

Question 18

Bret Harte skillfully used what?

Answer 18

Western dialect

Question 19

What is the setting of the story “The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion”?

Answer 19

A county in California

Question 20

“Who dressed like a miner”

Answer 20

Mr. Dimmidge

Question 21

How are Mr. Dimmidge’s physical appearance and his missions a paradox?

Answer 21

He is a big man carrying a gun half cocked. He appears to be rough and ready for trouble, but really only wants to find his wife.

Question 22

“Her face was unknown… But it was pleasant, marked by a certain good humoresque determination.”

Answer 22

Eliza Dimmdge

Question 23

“His position was trying and he was not sorry when the term of his engagement expires next week.”

Answer 23

The Editor

Question 24

What were the reasons Mr. And Mrs. Dimmidge decide to reconcile their differences?

Answer 24

Everything they have been doing seems unimportant They feel ashamed and afraid Eliza finds out Dimmdge is jealous

Question 25

A form of humor whose grotesque and morbid situations reveal bitter disillusionment of its author. Life appears to be as a cruel joke played upon man by an impersonal or malevolent force. It reflects a cynical view of human existence.

Answer 25

Black humor

Question 26

He was regarded by many as the first American writer to use black humor.

Answer 26

Ambrose Bierce

Question 27

His works were "The Cynic's Woordbook" also known as "The Devil's Dictionary"

Answer 27

Ambrose Bierce

Question 28

What was the setting of the story "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"?

Answer 28

Northern Alabama during the Civil War

Question 29

What does the author use to build suspense and give needed information?

Answer 29

Flashback

Question 30

"He closed his eyes in order to fix his thoughts upon his wife and children"

Answer 30

Peyton Farquhar

Question 31

"He closed his eyes and saw again the water below him."

Answer 31

Peyton Farquhar

Question 32

"His body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of Owl Creek Bridge."

Answer 32

Peyton Farquhar

Question 33

Why do the readers believe Farquhar has escaped?

Answer 33

Farquhar divide as deeply as he could The soldiers had almost finished reloading He stands at the gate of his own home

Question 34

Combined interest in music and poetry in "The Symphony". Various sections of this poem attempt to duplicate the sounds of instruments in an orchestra.

Answer 34

Sidney Lanier

Question 35

What is the setting of the story "The Revenge of Hamish"?

Answer 35

Scotland during the Middle Ages

Question 36

"He snatches the child from the mother, and chambers the crag toward the sea."

Answer 36

Hamish

Question 37

"Crawled up on the crag, and lay flat, and locked hold of dead roots of a tree."

Answer 37

Maclean

Question 38

What is the setting of the story "The Song of the Chattahoochee"?

Answer 38

A river in Georgia

Question 39

Lanier's best known work.

Answer 39

"The Song of the Chattahoochee"

Question 40

What is the setting of "A Ballad of Trees and the Master"?

Answer 40

The Garden of Gethsemane

Question 41

He powerfully portrayed the farmers plight (Midwestern farmers)

Answer 41

Hamlin Garland

Question 42

He described his brand of realism as vertism (means truth)

Answer 42

Hamlin Garland

Question 43

One of his works "A Daughter of the Middle Border" earned him the Pulitzer Prize

Answer 43

Hamlin Garland

Question 44

What is the setting of the story "The Return of the Private"?

Answer 44

La Crosse, Wisconsin, after the Civil War

Question 45

"He was like a man lost in a dream."

Answer 45

Ed Smith

Question 46

"The common soldier of the American volunteer army had returned."

Answer 46

Ed Smith

Question 47

"The wife shuddered to think how near she had come to being a soldier's widow."

Answer 47

Emma Smith

Question 48

Examples of what is throughout the poem of "When the Frost is on the Punkin"?

Answer 48

Onomatopoeia

Question 49

Wrote about the simple country people of Maine

Answer 49

Sarah Orne Jewett

Question 50

One of her works, rated as her best book "The Country of the Pointed Firs"

Answer 50

Sarah Orne Jewett

Question 51

What element did Sarah Orne Jewett's short stories emphasize rather than plot or setting?

Answer 51

Characterization

Question 52

What is the setting of "A White Heron"

Answer 52

Maine on a small farm

Question 53

What is the conflict of "A White Heron"?

Answer 53

Sylvia's inner conflict about the hunger and his request of her is whether her friendship with the hunter is important enough for her to tell him where the white heron's nest is AND whether she and Mrs. Tilley need the $10 enough to give away the life of the heron.

Question 54

"She had always believed that whoever climbed to the top of it could see the ocean."

Answer 54

Sylvia

Question 55

"I can't think of anything I should like so much as to find the heron's nest, the handsome stranger was saying."

Answer 55

Bird hunter

Question 56

"Here she comes now, paler than ever, and her worn frock is torn and tattered."

Answer 56

Sylvia

Question 57

What kind of sentences does the author use for emphasis while talking directly to Sylvia who is looking for the white heron?

Answer 57

Imperative

Question 58

Published only 7 poems during her lifetime (before her death)

Answer 58

Emily Dickinson

Question 59

She dressed in white during the last years of life

Answer 59

Emily Dickinson

Question 60

What does Dickinson reveal in "Prologue" and "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?"

Answer 60

She reveals she's isolated

Question 61

In "Much Madness Is Divine Sense" what is madness and sense described as?

Answer 61

A paradox

Question 62

Dickinson became progressively preoccupied with what subject?

Answer 62

Death

Question 63

Why did Dickinson reject Christ?

Answer 63

She said because "It is hard to give up the world"

Question 64

Dickinson became progressively preoccupied with what subject?

Answer 64

Death

Question 65

Why did Dickinson reject Christ?

Answer 65

She said because "It is hard to give up the world"