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The realism period was popular from 1880 till 1914.

Some characteristics in realism writing were gritty details, realism aims at an accurate and unsentimental depiction of social problems and issues. Realism also focused on real life heroes in everyday circumstances.

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The industrial revolution was when the U.S became more industrial opening new factories and becoming more advanced technically. The Industrial Revolution helped realism emerge as the dominant style of writing.

The Civil War disillusioned the writers turning from Romanticism to Realism. After the Civil war the US was hit by a wave of immigrants bringing in social problems.

The Progressive Era was a movement an attempt to improve American politics, community life, and business by embracing social and political reform. It turned many writers from Romanticism to realism, stories focused on ordinary characters, and events, and seeking to reflect life as it really was.

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Mark Twain wrote Adventures of "Huckleberry Finn" in 1885 which combined a lyrical portrait of American landscape with the social injustices of pre-Civil War life that many immigrants faced. Frank Norris wrote "The Octopus: A story of California" in 1901 which focused on the railroad's strangling effects on California farmers. In 1906 Upton Sinclair wrote the book "The Jungle" the book focused on the main problems of what was going into the U.S meat.

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Provide a description of Regionalism.

-Regionalism in literature embraces not the universal but the particular, focusing on what specifically characters a geographical are in its people.

- Regionalism and Realism are very similar to each other because Regionalism writes about very specific features oh relevant landscapes and villages where Realism express things that can happen but did not, so both play well when combined together.

- Regionalist writers attempted to re-create in careful detail both the relevant physical features of landscapes and towns and the often colorful characters inhabit them.

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- Naturalism is the literature of describing nature in a deep accurate way showing what nature can do and what nature does.

- Realism and Naturalism go well together and build up the realism of the story because without naturalism, we won't understand the setting and scene of the story as well as we would do when we do have context of what the locations looks like .

- Naturalist writers moved beyond realism in their quest to dissect human behavior and show human beings as subject to natural forces beyond their control .

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

Realism focused on the real life problems with ordinary people. While Romanticism focused on the imagination, God, and individual feelings. Realism is aimed to fix problems that were caused by society while Romanticism tried to escape those problems. The similarities that the Romanticism and realists had is that in a way they both used to write about the sadness of the world, at the time realists were writing about what was going on in the US, which was the civil war, a very sad time. The Romanticism would write about Gothic literature, which is also a way to express sadness.