Realism

What type of novel dominated 19th century literature in Europe and America?

• Modern

• Romantic

• Realist

• Postmodern

Realist novels focus on

• Ideals

• Ordinary people and places

• Unreal world

• Material world

Main characters are usually

• Lower class

• Upper class

• Working poor

• Middle class

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Realist themes focus on

• Love

• Family

• self fulfillment

• All of the above

Realist novels are interested in

• social conflict

• superheroes

• ghosts

• melodrama

In realist novels, men were expected to be

• financially independent

• down and out

• emotional

• rational

Women are portrayed as

• emotional

• virtuous

• domestic

• All the above

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Realist novels progress in a timeline that

• is non-linear

• is sequential

• jumps back and forth

• non-sequential

Narrator is

• First and second person

• Third person

• First and Third person

• Second person

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Realist style uses

• Detail description

• Everyday Language

• Disparity between appearance and reality

• All the above