Chapter 8 - Regionalists Flashcards
In what time period did realism and naturalism appear?
1865-1914
What were the two major forces of change following the Civil War period
Rapid industrialization and Derwin’s theory of evolution
What are 3 things the rapid growth of industrialization following the civil war result in?
Growth of new towns
Growth of labor unions
Assumption of power by American business men
Southern blacks, immigrants, and discouraged farmers caused what?
Growth in large cities
Where did higher criticism originate?
German seminaries and universities
According to the social-gospel movement, what is evil the result of?
Society’s corrupt institutions
What event marked the end of the literary period characterized by the emergence of realism and naturalism?
World war 1
Fundamentalists professed beliefs of what 5 things?
The inerrancy of scripture The virgin birth of Christ The substitutionary death of Christ Christ's physical resurrection Christ's miracle working power
What were the 3 major groups of writers?
Regionalists, realists, and naturalists
Regionalists served as a transition between what 2 groups of writers?
Major romantics and major realists
Who are the masters of realism?
Howells, James, and Clemens
What group of people were more romantic than realistic?
Local colorists
At the end of the literary period, what was the prevailing spirit?
Pessimism
What author skillfully used western dialect?
Bret Harte
What is the setting of “A Boom in the Calaveras Clarion”?
A county in California
How are Mr. Dimmidges physical appearance and his mission a paradox?
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
Quote to Match: “who dressed like a miner”
Mr. Dimmidge
Quote to match: “her face was unknown… But it was pleasant, marked by a certain good humor and determination”
Eliza Dimmidge
Quote to Match: “His position was trying and he was not sorry when the term of his engagement expired the next week”
The editor
Why do Mr. And Mrs. Dimmidge device to reconcile their differences?
Bc everything they have been doing seems unimportant.
They feel ashamed and afraid
Eliza finds out Dimmidge is jealous
What is a form of humor whose grotesque and morbid situations reveal bitter disillusionment of its author?
Black humor
Ambrose Bierce’s “The Cynic’s Wordbook” was renamed to what?
The Devil’s Dictionary
What is the setting of “An Occurence at Owlcreek Bridge”?
Northern Alabama during the civil war
In “An Occurence at Owlcreek Bridge” the author uses what to build suspense and give needed information?
Flashback
Quote to match: “He closed his eyes in order to fix his last thoughts upon his wife and children.”
Peyton Farquhar
Quote to match: “He unclosed his eyes and saw again the water below him.”
Peyton Farquhar
Quote to match: “His body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of Owl Creek Bridge.”
Peyton Farquhar
Name 3 reasons why the reader believes Farquhar has escaped
He dived as deeply as he could
The soldiers had almost finished reloading
He stood at the gate of his own home
Which author powerfully portrayed the farmer’s plight?
Hamlin Garland
Garland defined his brand of realism as what?
Veritism (truth)
Which work of Garland’s won him a a Pulitzer Prize?
“The Return of the Private”
What is the setting of “The Return of the Private”?
Lacrosse, Wisconsin after the civil war
Quote to Match: “he was like a man lost in a dream”
Ed Smith
Quote to match: “The wife shuttered to think this near she had come to being a soldier’s widow”
Emma Smith
There are many examples of what type of figurative language in the poem “When the Frost is on the Pumpkin”?
Onomatopoeia
What is the setting of “The White Heron”?
Maine on a small farm
What is rated as Sarah Orne Jewett’s best book?
The Country of the Pointed Furs
Sarah Orne Jewett’s short stories emphasized what?
Characterization
What is Sylvia from “The White Heron”’s inner conflict?
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
Quote to Match: “She had always believed that whoever climbed to the top of it could see the ocean”
Sylvia
Quote to Match: “Here she comes now, paler than ever, and her worn frock is torn and tattered”
Sylvia
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.”
The bird hunter
The author uses what for emphasis while taking directly to Sylvia who is looking for the white heron?
Imperative sentences
What author only published 7 poems in their lifetime before death?
Emily Dickinson
Which author dressed in all white the last years of her life?
Emily Dickinson
In “Prologue” and “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” reveal what about Dickinson?
That she is isolated
Madness and Much Sense in “Much Madness is Divinest Sense” are described as a what?
Paradox
