Realism
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- Local Color
- writing about very specific locales; "Swamp Tales" example
- vernacular
- language the way it is spoken, improper spelling shows regional pronunciations
- Kate Chopin
- THE AWAKENING set in Louisiana locale; wrote about women who were seeking to have some control in their own lives "The Story of an Hour" "A Pair of Silk Stockings"
- Frederick Douglass
- autobiography shows progression from slave to abolutionist speaker MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM
- The Gilded Age
- Twain's name for the 1890's- appearance is good but corruption is underneath a thin pretty layer
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- wrote both formal and dialect poems; first African American writer to make a living at craft of writing "We Wear the Mask"
- Regionalism
- flavor, culture, and dialect of specific regions shown through writings
- irony
- contrast between what is expected and what actually happens
- Naturalism
- realistic but pessimistic; man as victim of nature +/or society
- epitaph
- brief writing in honor of someone, as on a tombstone
- Stephen Crane
- Important Naturalist writer; THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE; died very young of TB; used impressionism
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Tilbury Town residents in poems show often bitter themes with abrupt endings and lives of desperate characters; "Richard Cory"
- Mark Twain
- "larger than life" American humorist and influential writer; author of HUCK FINN and "Jumping Frog"; used vernacular, humor, satire
- Realism
- "slice of life" writing focus on ordinary lives presented as true to life as possible
- Edgar Lee Masters
- criminal lawyer who was also author of SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY epitaphs
- Bret Harte
- wrote Western tales that were formulaic; "Luck of Roaring Camp" "Outcasts of Poker Flat"
- 1850-1914
- Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion
- Jack London
- used writings about Yukon to go from homeless to millionaire, yet still tragic end; CALL OF THE WILD "To Build a Fire"
- satire
- type of writing using humor to show needed changes