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Huck finn test Flashcards

1
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what is Verisimilitude?

A

attempting or aiming to be real

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2
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what is agency

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in control of your own actions

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what is the realist moment of choice

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when a character deliberates over crucial moral choice

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4
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when was the “realist period”

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1870s-1880s

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5
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what is realism?

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  • Attempting to reproduce the real world on the
    page
  • Use of details
  • Stress on the understated, the typical, the
    average
  • Avoiding self-conscious styling
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6
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who wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

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Mark Twain

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7
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who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?

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Mark Twain

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who wrote Roughing It?

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Mark Twain

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9
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who wrote A CT Yankee in King Arthur’s Court?

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Mark Twain

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10
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who wrote The Portrait of a Lady?

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Henry James

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who wrote The Bostonians?

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Henry James

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who wrote The Rise of Silas Lapham?

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William Dean Howells

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13
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who wrote A Modern Instance?

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William Dean Howells

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who were the three realist authors?

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William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain

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where are Jim and Huck from in the book? what was it modeled from?

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St. Petersburg modeled after Hannibal, MO

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16
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what is mark twain’s backstory?

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  • 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
17
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when did mark twain start writing huck Finn?

A

1876

18
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When was huck Finn published?

A

1885

19
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when did the civil war end?

A

1865

20
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when was the period of reconstruction?

A

1866- 1877

21
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what was the Compromise of 1877

A

RB Hayes removes troops from
the South & slavery is “redeemed”

22
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when was the period of naturalism?

A

1890s—1910s

23
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what is naturalism?

A
  • Environmental determinism
  • No moral direction to the world (or to people)
  • Everything’s random, no reason or purpose to
    anything
24
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who were the writers of the naturalist movement?

A

Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris, and Kate Chopin

25
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who wrote The Red Badge of Courage?

A

Stephen Crane

26
Q

who wrote An American Tragedy?

A

Theodore Dreiser

27
Q

who wrote Sister Carrie?

A

Theodore Dreiser

28
Q

who wrote The Octopus?

A

Frank Norris

29
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who wrote McTeague?

A

Frank Norris

30
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who wrote The Awakening?

A

Kate Chopin

31
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who are the three wilks sisters

A

Mary Jane, susan, and Joanna

32
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who are the real wilks brothers

A

Harvey and William

33
Q

who is bogs?

A

drunkard threatening to kill sherburn

34
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Who is sherburn?

A

well dressed, represents moral reason and points our craziness of the south

35
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who developed frontier thesis?

A

Fredrick Jackson Turner

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