Realism Flashcards
Using humor and exaggeration to mock real life situations
Satire
Making something seem true
Verisimilitude
Writing that explores human relationship with the world
Naturalism
The idea that your life is controlled by outside forces
Deterministic
Writing specific to a particular region
Regionalism
Ambrose Bierce wrote…
An occurrence at owl creek bridge
Stephen crane wrote…
The open boat
Mark twain wrote..
Damned human race
Kate Chopin wrote..
The story of an hour
Jack London wrote..
The law of life
To build a fire
Realism date
1865-1914
Civil war
Causes realism to exist, because of all the casualties, it was the opposite of romanticism (not optimistic)
Gilded age
Phrase by mark twain
Covered in gold- looks good, but on the inside it is bad (social issues)
Social issues
Racial inequality, gender inequality, social inequality (minorities)
Share cropping
Fear of foreign cultures
Xenophobic
Realism
An artistic and literary movement after the civil war which attempts to portray life as it really is (opposed to how it should be)
Key features of realism
Character is more important than the plot
Focus on every day characters, events, and settings
Focus on social issues in literature
Detached narration- not emotionally involved (writes like a newspaper-lacks tone)
Individual/society
Society is part of reality
Brotherhood/camaraderie
Individuals represent of a group (caricatures)
Nature
Nature/universe is indifferent
Deterministic- no free will
American Dream
Focus on present
Inequality not accessible-honesty
Big ideas
No unified creation/over soul
Skeptical universal truths
Misspelled or shortened words based on the region
Dialect
