Realism Overview by Susan Bach [Student WHS] https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio en-us 2020-01-06 22:01:15 UTC 2025-10-27 16:21:40 UTC hello@padlet.com What specific time period was Realism popular? ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179098 Realism was popular between 1880-1914.]]> 2020-01-06 22:03:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179098 Identify a minimum of 3 traits or characteristics of Realistic authors and/or their writing. ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179144
  • 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.

    • ]]>     2020-01-06 22:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179144     What was the Industrial Revolution and how did it impact or influence Realism? ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179163 The Industrial Revolution was a transition to new manufacturing processes, as societies became more industrialized and urban. ]]> 2020-01-06 22:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179163 How did the Civil War also impact or influence this literary time period? ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179197 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. ]]> 2020-01-06 22:03:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179197 What was the Progressive Era and what was its impact on the literature during this time? ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179257 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. ]]> 2020-01-06 22:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179257 Identify a minimum of 3 authors from this time period and identify one of their literary works and explain why it was important. ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179324 2020-01-06 22:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179324 Provide a description of Naturalism. avle1021_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179325 Naturalism is similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary.]]> 2020-01-06 22:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179325 What does Naturalism have to do with Realism? avle1021_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179341 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.]]> 2020-01-06 22:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179341 Provide a description of Regionalism. ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179363 A literature that embraces not the universal but the particular, focusing on what specifically characterizes a geographical area and its people. ]]> 2020-01-06 22:04:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179363 What was the main focus of Naturalist writers? avle1021_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179387 Naturalist writers seek truth in the universe, no matter how dark the truth is, and look at human life as a grim, losing battle.]]> 2020-01-06 22:04:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179387 What does Regionalism have to do with Realism? ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179399 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.

    ]]>     2020-01-06 22:04:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179399     What was the main focus of Regionalist writers? ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179412 Writers strive to capture the speech, dress, common beliefs, and social interaction of the given locale.]]> 2020-01-06 22:04:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179412 Identify a minimum of 3 similarities and 3 differences between Realism and Romanticism. avle1021_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179421 2020-01-06 22:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428179421 “Industrial Revolution.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 21 Aug. 2018, www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution. avle1021_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428183186 2020-01-06 22:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428183186 Similarities ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428184069
  • Both produce many art, music, literature  
  • Both wrote about the peoples' life along with affairs
  • Both base on the way how people saw things
    • ]]>     2020-01-06 22:22:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428184069     Differences ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428184098
  • 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.

    • ]]>     2020-01-06 22:22:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428184098     Frank Norris avle1021_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428184811
  • 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.
    ]]>     2020-01-06 22:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428184811     Mark Twain avle1021_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428184986
  • 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.
    ]]>     2020-01-06 22:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428184986     Jane Addams avle1021_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428185094
  • Twenty Years at Hull House
    • This literary work was important because it talks about poverty and abuses that existed during the Industrial Revolution.
    ]]>     2020-01-06 22:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428185094     “What Is the Difference Between Romanticism and Realism?” Reference, IAC Publishing, 12 Aug. 2017, www.reference.com/world-view/difference-between-romanticism-realism-e44597b47d8c82f3. ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428185441 2020-01-06 22:28:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428185441 Papineau, David. “Naturalism.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 15 Sept. 2015, plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism/. ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428694426 2020-01-07 21:55:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428694426 Elements of Literature, edited by Kylene Beers, Carol Jago, Deborah Appleman, Leila Christenbury, Sara Kajderm Linda Rief, Holt, 2009, pp. 605-613, 619, 681. ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428695217 2020-01-07 21:57:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428695217 "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 <http://www.enotes.com/topics/twenty-years-hull-house#summary-summary> avle1021_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428695464 2020-01-07 21:58:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428695464 Griffin, Will. “Romanticism to Realism: The Literary Shift from Antebellum to Postbellum America.” Medium, Medium, 6 Nov. 2017, medium.com/@wbgriff/romanticism-to-realism-the-literary-shift-from-antebellum-to-postbellum-america-ccaf5b3d8a19. avle1021_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428698278 2020-01-07 22:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428698278 “The Progressive Era.” Khan Academy, Khan Academy, www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/age-of-empire/a/the-progressive-era. avle1021_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428698724 2020-01-07 22:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428698724 ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428700212 2020-01-07 22:13:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428700212 ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428700526 2020-01-07 22:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428700526 ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428702002 2020-01-07 22:19:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428702002 ambach1001_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428702161 2020-01-07 22:19:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428702161 Wilson, Kara. “What Is Realistic Fiction?” Study.com, Study.com, study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-realistic-fiction-definition-characteristics-examples.html. avle1021_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428702663 2020-01-07 22:21:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428702663 avle1021_2 https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428702995 2020-01-07 22:23:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ambach1001_2/r5whc9i2zbio/wish/428702995