Download The Rise of Realism

The Civil War and Postwar Period
1850-1900
Frederick Douglass
 “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
 1817-1895
Louisa May Alcott
 From “Little Women”
Mark Twain
“
The Notorious Jumping Frog From Calaveras
County”
 1835-1910
Bret Harte
 “The Outcasts of Poker Flatt”
Ambrose Bierce
 “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
 1842-1914?
Kate Chopin
 “A Pair of Silk Stockings”
 “The Story of an Hour”
 1854-1904
Stephen Crane
 “Do Not Weep, Maiden, War Is Kind”
 “A Mom Said to the Universe”
 “A Mystery of Heroism”
 1871-1900
Jack London
 “To Build a Fire”
 1876-1916
Harriet Beecher Stowe
 “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
 She had a big influence on the beginning of the Civil
War.
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• 1861-1865
•The war of the states
•The social, political, economic and racial issues of the war shaped the
reconstruction era.
•Reconstructive era was the rebuilding after the war
•Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel ”Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
anti-slavery story that kick started the Civil War.
Old Terms:
Paradox
Symbols
Short story
Fiction
Poetry
Alliteration
Setting
Characters
Irony
Tone
Rationalism
Mood
Meter
Repetition
Metaphor
Rhyme Scheme
Old terms continued:
Iambic Pentameter
Shakespearean Sonnet
Personification
Foreshadowing
Transcendentalism
Theme
Regionalism
 Literature that emphasizes a specific geographical
setting and that reproduces the speech, behavior, and
attitudes of the people who live in that region.
A nineteenth-century literary movement that was an
extension of realism and that claimed to portray life
exactly as it was.
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Paradox – A statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth.
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Diction – A speaker or writer’s choice of words.
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Symbol – A person , place , thing or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for
something more than itself.
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Comic Devices – Used in Comedy to write humor in a common structure.
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Cliché – A word or phrase of a figure of speech that has become lifeless because of overuse.
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Extended Metaphor – a metaphor that is extended through a stanza or entire poem, often by
multiple comparisons of unlike objects
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Point of View – first person, third person limited, omniscient, objective
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Theme – he insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work.
Irony – A discrepancy between appearances and reality
 Verbal Irony
 Situational Irony
 Dramatic Irony
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Dialect – A way of speaking that characterizes a certain social group or the inhabitants of a certain
geological era.