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Chapter 8 - Regionalists Flashcards

1
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In what time period did realism and naturalism appear?

A

1865-1914

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2
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What were the two major forces of change following the Civil War period

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Rapid industrialization and Derwin’s theory of evolution

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What are 3 things the rapid growth of industrialization following the civil war result in?

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Growth of new towns
Growth of labor unions
Assumption of power by American business men

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4
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Southern blacks, immigrants, and discouraged farmers caused what?

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Growth in large cities

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5
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Where did higher criticism originate?

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German seminaries and universities

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6
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According to the social-gospel movement, what is evil the result of?

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Society’s corrupt institutions

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7
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What event marked the end of the literary period characterized by the emergence of realism and naturalism?

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World war 1

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8
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Fundamentalists professed beliefs of what 5 things?

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The inerrancy of scripture 
The virgin birth of Christ
The substitutionary death of Christ 
Christ's physical resurrection
Christ's miracle working power
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What were the 3 major groups of writers?

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Regionalists, realists, and naturalists

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Regionalists served as a transition between what 2 groups of writers?

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Major romantics and major realists

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11
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Who are the masters of realism?

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Howells, James, and Clemens

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12
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What group of people were more romantic than realistic?

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Local colorists

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13
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At the end of the literary period, what was the prevailing spirit?

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Pessimism

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14
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What author skillfully used western dialect?

A

Bret Harte

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15
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What is the setting of “A Boom in the Calaveras Clarion”?

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A county in California

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How are Mr. Dimmidges physical appearance and his mission a paradox?

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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

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17
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Quote to Match: “who dressed like a miner”

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Mr. Dimmidge

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18
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Quote to match: “her face was unknown… But it was pleasant, marked by a certain good humor and determination”

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Eliza Dimmidge

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19
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Quote to Match: “His position was trying and he was not sorry when the term of his engagement expired the next week”

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The editor

20
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Why do Mr. And Mrs. Dimmidge device to reconcile their differences?

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Bc everything they have been doing seems unimportant.
They feel ashamed and afraid
Eliza finds out Dimmidge is jealous

21
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What is a form of humor whose grotesque and morbid situations reveal bitter disillusionment of its author?

A

Black humor

22
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Ambrose Bierce’s “The Cynic’s Wordbook” was renamed to what?

A

The Devil’s Dictionary

23
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What is the setting of “An Occurence at Owlcreek Bridge”?

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Northern Alabama during the civil war

24
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In “An Occurence at Owlcreek Bridge” the author uses what to build suspense and give needed information?

A

Flashback

25
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Quote to match: “He closed his eyes in order to fix his last thoughts upon his wife and children.”

A

Peyton Farquhar

26
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Quote to match: “He unclosed his eyes and saw again the water below him.”

A

Peyton Farquhar

27
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Quote to match: “His body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of Owl Creek Bridge.”

A

Peyton Farquhar

28
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Name 3 reasons why the reader believes Farquhar has escaped

A

He dived as deeply as he could
The soldiers had almost finished reloading
He stood at the gate of his own home

29
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Which author powerfully portrayed the farmer’s plight?

A

Hamlin Garland

30
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Garland defined his brand of realism as what?

A

Veritism (truth)

31
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Which work of Garland’s won him a a Pulitzer Prize?

A

“The Return of the Private”

32
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What is the setting of “The Return of the Private”?

A

Lacrosse, Wisconsin after the civil war

33
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Quote to Match: “he was like a man lost in a dream”

A

Ed Smith

34
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Quote to match: “The wife shuttered to think this near she had come to being a soldier’s widow”

A

Emma Smith

35
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There are many examples of what type of figurative language in the poem “When the Frost is on the Pumpkin”?

A

Onomatopoeia

36
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What is the setting of “The White Heron”?

A

Maine on a small farm

37
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What is rated as Sarah Orne Jewett’s best book?

A

The Country of the Pointed Furs

38
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Sarah Orne Jewett’s short stories emphasized what?

A

Characterization

39
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What is Sylvia from “The White Heron”’s inner conflict?

A

about the hunter 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

40
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Quote to Match: “She had always believed that whoever climbed to the top of it could see the ocean”

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Sylvia

41
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Quote to Match: “Here she comes now, paler than ever, and her worn frock is torn and tattered”

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Sylvia

42
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Quote to match: “I can’t think of anything I should like so much as to find the heron’s nest, the handsome stranger was saying.”

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The bird hunter

43
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The author uses what for emphasis while taking directly to Sylvia who is looking for the white heron?

A

Imperative sentences

44
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What author only published 7 poems in their lifetime before death?

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Emily Dickinson

45
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Which author dressed in all white the last years of her life?

A

Emily Dickinson

46
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In “Prologue” and “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” reveal what about Dickinson?

A

That she is isolated

47
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Madness and Much Sense in “Much Madness is Divinest Sense” are described as a what?

A

Paradox

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