Realism in American Literature

Writers began to look at...

• local manners of ordinary people

• rational thought

• global issues

Regionalism focused on...

• global ideas

• speech and manners in specific geographic regions

• rational thought

Naturalism focused on...

• rationalism

• psychology and socialogy

• deist ideas

The idea that human behavior was determined by forces beyond individual control is an element of...

• romanticism

• rationalism

• naturalism

Naturalism looks at life...

• bluntly and crudely

• idealistically

• rationally

The realist author who provides a biting picture of the injustices in pre-war America is...

• Washington Irving

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Mark Twain

Realist writing subjects included...

• shop girls, factory workers, corrupt politicians, and prostitues

• European monarchs

• American entrepreneurs

The realist author who went to war to find material for his writing was...

• Mark Twain

• Stephen Crane

• Ernest Hemingway

The first American great war novel, The Red Badge of Courage, was written by...

• Ernest Hemingway

• Stephen Crane

• Mark Twain

Realism was fueled by the view that America was a place of...

• battle

• opportunity

• the American Dream