Huck finn test Flashcards
what is Verisimilitude?
attempting or aiming to be real
what is agency
in control of your own actions
what is the realist moment of choice
when a character deliberates over crucial moral choice
when was the “realist period”
1870s-1880s
what is realism?
- Attempting to reproduce the real world on the
page - Use of details
- Stress on the understated, the typical, the
average - Avoiding self-conscious styling
who wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Mark Twain
who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
Mark Twain
who wrote Roughing It?
Mark Twain
who wrote A CT Yankee in King Arthur’s Court?
Mark Twain
who wrote The Portrait of a Lady?
Henry James
who wrote The Bostonians?
Henry James
who wrote The Rise of Silas Lapham?
William Dean Howells
who wrote A Modern Instance?
William Dean Howells
who were the three realist authors?
William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain
where are Jim and Huck from in the book? what was it modeled from?
St. Petersburg modeled after Hannibal, MO
what is mark twain’s backstory?
- Family was fallen VA aristocracy, moved west
- Heads west to make his fortune, eventually to
San Fran - Later in life, writer/activist against
imperialism/colonialism, including by US
when did mark twain start writing huck Finn?
1876
When was huck Finn published?
1885
when did the civil war end?
1865
when was the period of reconstruction?
1866- 1877
what was the Compromise of 1877
RB Hayes removes troops from
the South & slavery is “redeemed”
when was the period of naturalism?
1890s—1910s
what is naturalism?
- Environmental determinism
- No moral direction to the world (or to people)
- Everything’s random, no reason or purpose to
anything
who were the writers of the naturalist movement?
Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris, and Kate Chopin
