Real Pain Flashcards
What were apects of Civil War?
Loss of 1 million/9 million people
Bleeding Kansas: Start of violence between North and South
Dred Scott Decision: said slaves were property
John Brown: Led slave revolt at arsinal
Aspects of Gilded Age
Unmistakable:
Age of Monopolies
Appearance vs. Reality
Aspects of social Issues
1) Racism
2) Xenophobia: fear of foriegners
3) gender issues (women issues)
An artistic and literary movement fro 1865 to 1914; it is an attempt to potray life as it really is.
Realism
List the 4 key features of Realism
1) Focus on Ordinary
2) Character development>plot
3) Analitical authorization. Like reporters (less interpretation for readers)
4) Writes about real social issues of the time
Machine and unstoppable force
War
A genre of Realism, specific to a particular region of people
Regionalism
Trying to make written word sound like the realistic language
Dialect
An intensified form of Realism, explores human relationship with environment (deterministic)
Naturalism
Life is determined by external factors
deterministic
Uses humor to criticize human weakness
Satire
The Damn Human Race
author+description
Mark Twain
A satire about how humans think they are the highest animals but in reality they are the lowest. The story runs test to prove it.
Chickamauga
Author+ main idea
Ambrose Bierce
Explores appearance vs. reality about going to war
Story of an Hour
Author+ main idea
Kate Chopin
Women hears her husband is dead. In reality he is alive.
Women has heart cancer and dies when her husband come home
Main idea is marriage and forbidden pleasures of independence at the time of unequal women rights.
Law of Life
author+ main idea
Jack London
Old Eskimo Chief Koskoosh is left with a fire to die
He has to accept his fate
