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WorksheetsRealism
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Check all characteristics of Realism:
detail
transparent language
omniscient narrator
verisimilitude
the quotidian
True or False: Realist texts often made social critique and detailed the lives of people in the lower or working classes.
True
False
What is "Manifest Destiny"?
idea that the U.S. is "destined" to expand and spread its ideals West
the idea that people can control their own fate/destiny
the hope that each generation will make more progress than the one before it
When did the Realist literary movement take place in the U.S.?
after the Revolutionary War
1800-1840s
Civil War to 1914
1914 to the Cold War
Regionalism, a subgenre of Realism, is distinct because of its:
idea that life is a losing battle against an uncaring universe
focus on geographic-specific vernacular, people, and settings
unique style that includes formal/academic language
Naturalism, a subgenre of Realism, is distinct because of its:
idea that life is a losing battle against an uncaring universe
focus on geographic-specific vernacular, people, and settings
use of nature to reveal wisdom and truth about life
Kate Chopin's stories ("Story of an Hour" and "A Pair of Silk Stockings") demonstrate:
Naturalism
Psychological Realism
a critique of the institution of slavery
a preference for following norms
What text is this quote from? "I have selected this day on which to address you, because it is the anniversary of my emancipation; and knowing of no better way, I am led to this as the best mode of celebrating that truly important event."
Frederick Douglass "Battle with Mr. Covey"
Frederick Douglass Open Letter
Sojourner Truth "Ain't I a Woman"
Alice Dunbar Nelson "When the Bayou Overflows"
What text is this quote from? "Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow."
Frederick Douglass: "The Battle with Mr. Covey"
Alice Dunbar Nelson: "When the Bayou Overflows"
Mark Twain: "Celebrated Jumping Frog"
Paul Dunbar: "The Faith Cure Man"
What text is this quote from? "I am a woman’s rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?"
Kate Chopin: "Story of an Hour"
Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a Woman?"
Kate Chopin: "A Pair of Silk Stockings"
Jack London: "To Build a Fire"
What text is this quote from? "Was ever such a wonderful letter? Louisette sat for an hour afterwards building gorgeous air-castles, while Ma'am Mouton fingered the paper and murmured prayers to the Virgin for Sylves'."
Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman?
Paul Dunbar: “The Faith Cure Man”
Alice Dunbar Nelson: “When the Bayou Overflows”
Kate Chopin: “A Pair of Silk of Stockings”
What text is this quote from? "Well, Smiley kept the beast in a little lattice box, and he used to fetch him down town sometimes and lay for a bet. One day a feller a stranger in the camp, he was come across him with his box, and says..."
Mark Twain: “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
Paul Dunbar: “The Faith Cure Man”
Frederick Douglass: “The Battle with Mr. Covey”
Alice Dunbar Nelson: “When the Bayou Overflows”
What text is this quote from? "When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease — of the joy that kills."
Kate Chopin: “Story of an Hour”
Alice Dunbar Nelson: “When the Bayou Overflows”
Kate Chopin: “A Pair of Silk of Stockings”
Jack London: “To Build a Fire”
What text is this quote from? "A certain fear of death came upon him. He realized that it was no longer a mere problem of freezing his fingers and toes, or of losing his hands and feet. Now it was a problem of life and death with the circumstances against him."
Jack London: “To Build a Fire”
Paul Dunbar: “The Faith Cure Man
Alice Dunbar Nelson: “When the Bayou Overflows”
Kate Chopin: “A Pair of Silk of Stockings”
Realism, which included stories about REAL daily life, was a reaction to (a) , which included texts about the ways we can "transcend" the physical through looking to nature or within.
