Unit 8 Flashcards
What years did realism and naturalism appear?
1865-1914
What event marked the end of the literary period characterized by the emergence of realism and naturalism?
The beginning of WWI
What were 2 major forces of change following the Civil War Period?
Rapid industrialization and Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
The rapid growth of industrialization following the Civil Was resulted in what three things?
Growth of new towns
Growth of labor unions
Assumption of leadership by American businessmen
What grew because of immigrants, Southern Black Americans, and discouraged farmers?
Large cities
Where did higher criticism originate?
German seminaries and universities
What is evil a result of according to the social gospel movement?
Society’s corrupt institution
What two evangelist had an impact in the revival movement?
Dwight L. Moody
Billy Sunday
What were the three major groups of writers?
Regionalists, realists, and naturalists
Regionalists served as transitionalists between what two major groups of writers?
Major romantics and major realists.
Who were the masters of realism?
Howells, James, and Clemens
Howell’s writings embodied what?
The middle class spirit
What did James’ writings embody?
The comsopolitan or international spirit
Clemens’ writings embodied what?
The frontier spirit
What were the group’s of realists that were more romantic than realistic?
Local Colorists
Are best described as they believed that life was controlled by inexplicable forces.
Naturalists
What was the prevailing spirit at the end of the literary period of realism and naturalism?
One of pessimism
Harte gained fame with the publication of what work?
“The Luck of the Roaring Camp”
Bret Harte skillfully used what?
Western dialect
What is the setting of the story “The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion”?
A county in California
“Who dressed like a miner”
Mr. Dimmidge
How are Mr. Dimmidge’s physical appearance and his missions a paradox?
He is a big man carrying a gun half cocked. He appears to be rough and ready for trouble, but really only wants to find his wife.
“Her face was unknown… But it was pleasant, marked by a certain good humoresque determination.”
Eliza Dimmdge
“His position was trying and he was not sorry when the term of his engagement expires next week.”
The Editor
What were the reasons Mr. And Mrs. Dimmidge decide to reconcile their differences?
Everything they have been doing seems unimportant
They feel ashamed and afraid
Eliza finds out Dimmdge is jealous
A form of humor whose grotesque and morbid situations reveal bitter disillusionment of its author. Life appears to be as a cruel joke played upon man by an impersonal or malevolent force. It reflects a cynical view of human existence.
Black humor
He was regarded by many as the first American writer to use black humor.
Ambrose Bierce
His works were “The Cynic’s Woordbook” also known as “The Devil’s Dictionary”
Ambrose Bierce
What was the setting of the story “An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge”?
Northern Alabama during the Civil War
What does the author use to build suspense and give needed information?
Flashback
“He closed his eyes in order to fix his thoughts upon his wife and children”
Peyton Farquhar
“He closed his eyes and saw again the water below him.”
Peyton Farquhar
“His body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of Owl Creek Bridge.”
Peyton Farquhar
Why do the readers believe Farquhar has escaped?
Farquhar divide as deeply as he could
The soldiers had almost finished reloading
He stands at the gate of his own home
Combined interest in music and poetry in “The Symphony”. Various sections of this poem attempt to duplicate the sounds of instruments in an orchestra.
Sidney Lanier
What is the setting of the story “The Revenge of Hamish”?
Scotland during the Middle Ages
“He snatches the child from the mother, and chambers the crag toward the sea.”
Hamish
“Crawled up on the crag, and lay flat, and locked hold of dead roots of a tree.”
Maclean
What is the setting of the story “The Song of the Chattahoochee”?
A river in Georgia
Lanier’s best known work.
“The Song of the Chattahoochee”
What is the setting of “A Ballad of Trees and the Master”?
The Garden of Gethsemane
He powerfully portrayed the farmers plight (Midwestern farmers)
Hamlin Garland
He described his brand of realism as vertism (means truth)
Hamlin Garland
One of his works “A Daughter of the Middle Border” earned him the Pulitzer Prize
Hamlin Garland
What is the setting of the story “The Return of the Private”?
La Crosse, Wisconsin, after the Civil War
“He was like a man lost in a dream.”
Ed Smith
“The common soldier of the American volunteer army had returned.”
Ed Smith
“The wife shuddered to think how near she had come to being a soldier’s widow.”
Emma Smith
Examples of what is throughout the poem of “When the Frost is on the Punkin”?
Onomatopoeia
Wrote about the simple country people of Maine
Sarah Orne Jewett
One of her works, rated as her best book “The Country of the Pointed Firs”
Sarah Orne Jewett
What element did Sarah Orne Jewett’s short stories emphasize rather than plot or setting?
Characterization
What is the setting of “A White Heron”
Maine on a small farm
What is the conflict of “A White Heron”?
Sylvia’s inner conflict about the hunger and his request of her is whether her friendship with the hunter is important enough for her to tell him where the white heron’s nest is AND whether she and Mrs. Tilley need the $10 enough to give away the life of the heron.
“She had always believed that whoever climbed to the top of it could see the ocean.”
Sylvia
“I can’t think of anything I should like so much as to find the heron’s nest, the handsome stranger was saying.”
Bird hunter
“Here she comes now, paler than ever, and her worn frock is torn and tattered.”
Sylvia
What kind of sentences does the author use for emphasis while talking directly to Sylvia who is looking for the white heron?
Imperative
Published only 7 poems during her lifetime (before her death)
Emily Dickinson
She dressed in white during the last years of life
Emily Dickinson
What does Dickinson reveal in “Prologue” and “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?”
She reveals she’s isolated
In “Much Madness Is Divine Sense” what is madness and sense described as?
A paradox
Dickinson became progressively preoccupied with what subject?
Death
Why did Dickinson reject Christ?
She said because “It is hard to give up the world”
Dickinson became progressively preoccupied with what subject?
Death
Why did Dickinson reject Christ?
She said because “It is hard to give up the world”
