american realism

A literary battle raged between realists and

• rationalists
• naturalists
• puritans
• romantics

American realists built their plots and characters around

• legends.
• ordinary life.
• mysteries.
• the supernatural.

At its basic level, realism was grounded in

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

Class is not important to the realist writer.

• False
• True

Realism emphasizes...

• representing things as they actually are

• contemplating what could be

• learning lessons from the past

American realism focuses on ALL of the following EXCEPT

• stories from the Civil War

• oppression

• an escape to nature

• the hardships of inequality

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 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