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Realism Flashcards

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Using humor and exaggeration to mock real life situations

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Satire

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Making something seem true

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Verisimilitude

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Writing that explores human relationship with the world

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Naturalism

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The idea that your life is controlled by outside forces

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Deterministic

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Writing specific to a particular region

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Regionalism

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Ambrose Bierce wrote…

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An occurrence at owl creek bridge

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Stephen crane wrote…

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The open boat

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Mark twain wrote..

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Damned human race

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Kate Chopin wrote..

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The story of an hour

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Jack London wrote..

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The law of life

To build a fire

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11
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Realism date

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1865-1914

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Civil war

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Causes realism to exist, because of all the casualties, it was the opposite of romanticism (not optimistic)

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Gilded age

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Phrase by mark twain

Covered in gold- looks good, but on the inside it is bad (social issues)

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Social issues

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Racial inequality, gender inequality, social inequality (minorities)
Share cropping

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Fear of foreign cultures

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Xenophobic

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Realism

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An artistic and literary movement after the civil war which attempts to portray life as it really is (opposed to how it should be)

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Key features of realism

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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)

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Individual/society

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Society is part of reality
Brotherhood/camaraderie
Individuals represent of a group (caricatures)

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Nature

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Nature/universe is indifferent

Deterministic- no free will

20
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American Dream

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Focus on present

Inequality not accessible-honesty

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Big ideas

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No unified creation/over soul

Skeptical universal truths

22
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Misspelled or shortened words based on the region

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Dialect

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