1. Twain Quiz: Jumping Frogs & Literary Offenses
1.) How does Jim Smiley consistently win bets? Use one specific detail from the text in your answer. 2.) How does Jim Smiley lose his bet about the frog to the stranger? 3.) Twain provides three quotes at the beginning of his essay “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses.” Generally, what is the attitude of all three writers towards Cooper’s writing? Explain. 4.) Finally: How does Twain comment on Cooper’s depiction of Native Americans? Explain.

2. Mr. Eble CP1 Sophomore American Literature
Realism & Naturalism
Mr. Eble
CP1 Sophomore American Literature

3. “The Gulf Stream” Winslow Homer

4. “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog” Caspar David Friedrich

5. Puritans / Early America
The Age of Reason / Classicism
Romanticism / Transcendentalism
Core Beliefs
Typology
God’s Providence
Covenant of Grace
Diligence
Biblical Literalism
Predestination
Writing Forms
Poem
Diary / Personal Narrative
Speech
A reliance on empiricism, reason
Inalienable rights
Democratic governance
A remembering / return to Classical ideas (Greeks, Romans)
Essay
Treatise
Government document
Individualism / Intuition
Nonconformity / Civil Disobedience
Transcendent power of nature
Imagination
Simplicity
Idealism
Novel

6. Generally, “A truthful treatment of material” in fiction.
Realism: A literary movement in Europe / American in the 1830’s roughly to the early 1900’s
Generally, “A truthful treatment of material” in fiction.
Ordinary characters
Class is important; more middle-class characters as opposed to upper class
Ordinary events
Ordinary language (dialects, colloquial, vernacular)
Actual characters narrate; no omniscient narrator
Thus, details are given in a realistic fashion

7. Naturalism: An extreme form of realism…
Demonstrated determinism—fiction and drama that emphasize the operation of laws in reality
Mechanistic (Newton…gravity)
Biological (Darwin)
Economic (Marx)
Subconscious (Freud)
Suggests the limits of human freedom
Discusses the universe and humanity’s place in it.

8. Stephen Crane, “A Man Said to the Universe”
A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.”