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What specific time period was Realism popular?

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What specific time period was Realism popular?

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Realism was popular between 1880-1914.

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Identify a minimum of 3 traits or characteristics of Realistic authors and/or their writing. 

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Identify a minimum of 3 traits or characteristics of Realistic authors and/or their writing. 

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Stories took place in the present or the past.

Characters are involved in events that could occur.

Characters seem like real people with real issues solved in a realistic way.

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What was the Industrial Revolution and how did it impact or influence Realism?

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What was the Industrial Revolution and how did it impact or influence Realism?

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The Industrial Revolution was a transition to new manufacturing processes, as societies became more industrialized and urban.

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How did the Civil War also impact or influence this literary time period?

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How did the Civil War also impact or influence this literary time period?

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The Civil War influenced this literary time period in many ways after shifting from Romanticism to Realism. This war had made America become "hardened", where people were less optimistic and saw the realility of things for how they actually were in a rational, impartional manner. People wanted to escape into an ideal world away from the violence of the war.

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What was the Progressive Era and what was its impact on the literature during this time?

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What was the Progressive Era and what was its impact on the literature during this time?

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The Progressive Era was a period of time from the 1890's to the 1920's where intense social and political reform aimed at making progress towards a better society. Its impact on literature during this time made writing more about wanting to live in a similar world.

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Identify a minimum of 3 authors from this time period and identify one of their literary works and explain why it was important. 

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Identify a minimum of 3 authors from this time period and identify one of their literary works and explain why it was important. 

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Naturalism is similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary.

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What does Naturalism have to do with Realism?

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What does Naturalism have to do with Realism?

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Realism dealt with subjects that shows the daily lives of common people while naturalism focused on darker topics that involved the lives of the common man.

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A literature that embraces not the universal but the particular, focusing on what specifically characterizes a geographical area and its people.

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What was the main focus of Naturalist writers?

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What was the main focus of Naturalist writers?

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Naturalist writers seek truth in the universe, no matter how dark the truth is, and look at human life as a grim, losing battle.

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What does Regionalism have to do with Realism? 

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What does Regionalism have to do with Realism? 

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Realism was a literary movement whose authors described life as they saw it, instead of how they imagined or wanted it to be. Regionalism is related to Realism because regionalist authors portrayed the specific traits of particular regions or areas of the United States.

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Identify a minimum of 3 similarities and 3 differences between Realism and Romanticism. 

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Identify a minimum of 3 similarities and 3 differences between Realism and Romanticism. 

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What was the main focus of Regionalist writers? 

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What was the main focus of Regionalist writers? 

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Writers strive to capture the speech, dress, common beliefs, and social interaction of the given locale.

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Realism expresses a message that shows situations realistically, whereas romanticism illustrates messages by using fiction

Romanticism focuses on plot, hyperbole, metaphor and feeling. In contrast, realism focuses on characters, details, objectivity and separation of author and narrator.

Romanticism rebels against prior forms of writing and art by picking into feeling, belief, imagination and fantasy. While realism focuses on details in an attempt to replicate the real world in text form.

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Both produce many art, music, literature

Both wrote about the peoples' life along with affairs

Both base on the way how people saw things

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The Octopus: A Story of California

This literary work was important because it describes the strangling effects of the railroad on California farmers. Norris demonstrated that one could be both a naturalist and a muckraker.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This literary work was important because it combines a lyrical portrait of an American landscape with a biting picture of the inherent social injustices of pre-Civil War life.

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Twenty Years at Hull House

This literary work was important because it talks about poverty and abuses that existed during the Industrial Revolution.

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Papineau, David. “Naturalism.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 15 Sept. 2015, plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism/.

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Papineau, David. “Naturalism.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 15 Sept. 2015, plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism/.

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Elements of Literature, edited by Kylene Beers, Carol Jago, Deborah Appleman, Leila Christenbury, Sara Kajderm Linda Rief, Holt, 2009, pp. 605-613, 619, 681.

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Elements of Literature, edited by Kylene Beers, Carol Jago, Deborah Appleman, Leila Christenbury, Sara Kajderm Linda Rief, Holt, 2009, pp. 605-613, 619, 681.

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"Twenty Years at Hull-House - Summary" Critical Edition of Young Adult Fiction Ed. Frank Northen Magill. eNotes.com, Inc. 1993 eNotes.com 7 Jan, 2020 

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"Twenty Years at Hull-House - Summary" Critical Edition of Young Adult Fiction Ed. Frank Northen Magill. eNotes.com, Inc. 1993 eNotes.com 7 Jan, 2020 