Realism/Mark Twain

The American Realism movement covered the years

• before the Revolutionary War
• after the Civil War
• before the Civil War
• after the Revolutionary War

The movement before the American Realism is known as the

• Romanticism
• Enlightenment
• Puritan Era
• Modernism

The purpose of writing  during the Realism was to

• instruct and entertain
• explain ideals
• argument
• persuade

The setting in Realist writings was usually

• familiar to the writer
• unfamiliar to the writer
• far away places
• in  Europe

Characters in Realist writing were

• extraordinary people
• ordinary people
• known citizens
• famous people

At its basic level, realism was grounded in

• religion.
• rational thought.
• human thinking.
• the faithful reporting of everyday life.

One of the most well known Realist authors was:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Benjamin Franklin
• James Cooper
• Mark Twain

What was Mark Twain's real name?

• Charles Webster
• Samuel Clemens
• H.G. Wells
• Sam Houston

What do we call Mark Twain?

• The grandfather of American literature
• The father of American literature
• The mother of American literature
• The grandmother of American literature

What was his first success as a writer?

• The Innocents Abroad

• Roughing It

• The Gilded Age

• Jim Smiley and the Jumping Frog