Regional Realism

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Who were the 3 main regional writers mentioned?

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What did regional realism do or accomplish?

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What did the fiction of the new realist era allow people to do?

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How did Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) get his pen name? Why is this name fitting for him?

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Even though the language of the novel of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can be uncomfortable, what is it important according to the video?

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Why did the accurate representation of dialect play such an important role in regional realism? How did these writers’ innovations in the creation of realistic-sounding dialogue affect later American literature?