By:Imran Salek Emma Billingley Jeremy SCipioni

 An inclination toward literal truth and what the eye can see  American Realists tried to depict the everyday lives of ordinary Americans, and the relationship between the individual and society  Steered away from Romantic beliefs and from unreal depictions of life.

 Faithful representation of life  Concentrating on middle-class life and preoccupations  Characters are the center of interest as opposed to a plot

 Mark Twain- “Huckleberry Fin”  Stephen Crane- “A Mystery of Heroism”  W.E.B Dubois-”The Souls of Black Folks”

 From Civil war reconstruction to about the beginning of WWI

 When you hear REALISM its about real life…

 Used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, fate, and environment has an inescapable force in shaping human character.  More pessimistic than Realism; inspired by hardships

 Characters.  Ill-educated or lower-class characters  lives are governed by:  The forces of heredity and instinct  Free will held back by uncontrollable natural forces (society, environment, fate, etc.)  Social Darwinism (survival of the fittest)

 1880’s to about 1940’s

 Richard Wright-” Native Son”  Ernest Hemingway- “A Farewell to Arms”

 Has elements of realism, has “natural” qualities or forces acting upon the characters that they cant control.

 Along the lines of Naturalism  Social problems seen as a force to deal with  Extreme discontent with the way things are  Ex: slaves, poverty, abused etc.

 Allusion – an expression, designed to call something to passing reference.  Archetype – A way typical example of a certain person or thing.  Connotation- feeling that is added to the original meaning of the word

 Denotation- the literal meaning of the word, in contrast of the feeling it suggests  Diction- the choice of words on style in a speech or writing  Parallelism- the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning

 Frame Story- a story within a story  Imagery- visual description or figurative language in a literally work.  Irony- a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.  Paradox- something that contradicts itself but is nonetheless true

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