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Realism
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Realism test 2009
Person not on offensive, rationing coffee
Ironic /c we don’t expect him to be shot
Mood is detached, no emotion
Theme: it is in everyday life that we are changed
forever
AMBROSE BIERCE
Naturalist
“Bitter Bierce”
Unsentimental, pessimist
Captured the cruelty + futility of war + indifference of
death
Occurrence at owl creek bridge
Man being killed b/c he was trying to tamper
w/railroad for northerners
Sees life flash before his eyes
Objective until shift when reader sees into what he
wishes would happen
Aware of his fate so time slows down
Theme: hope can’t stop inevitable death, it can only
delay it (all hope is false)
Regionalism
⊕ Used dialects + vivid descriptions to capture essence of
life
People
Mark twain
Real name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Satire
Used euphemisms (mild word/phrase to substitute for a
harsher one)
Burlesque Biography
Made fun of “family members”
Used euphemisms to describe jobs
Theme: poke fun at people who take themselves too
seriously
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Realism test 2009
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
Traveling man says that someone lent him money,
wants to reward him
Must say phrase that was said to him
Entire town lies and tries to get the money
Theme: as good as people seem they can all be
hypocrites
KATE CHOPIN
Conservative upbringing
Captured local color of Louisiana (Creole) + women’s
role in society
Precursor for suffrage movement
Nature of marriage, racial prejudice + women’s desire
for social, economic + political equality
The story of an hour
Woman thinks her husband died, feels happiness +
relief
Finds out de does not die, dies of heart problems
Theme: control in whatever form limits an individual
The Awakening
Repression of women in Victorian America
4 things Victorian women should develop: piety,
purity, domesticity + submissiveness
Theme:: independence can bring solitude,
Independence can bring emotional, spiritual,
sexual + social awakenings