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Realism, Naturalism, Lit of Discontent, Vocab 1

Realism, Naturalism, Lit of Discontent, Vocab 1. By:Imran Salek Emma Billingley Jeremy SCipioni. Realism. An inclination toward literal truth and what the eye can see

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Realism, Naturalism, Lit of Discontent, Vocab 1

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  1. Realism, Naturalism, Lit of Discontent, Vocab 1 By:ImranSalek Emma Billingley Jeremy SCipioni

  2. Realism • 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.

  3. Main characteristics: • Faithful representation of life • Concentrating on middle-class life and preoccupations • Characters are the center of interest as opposed to a plot

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

  5. Time Period • From Civil war reconstruction to about the beginning of WWI

  6. Ways to Remember • When you hear REALISM its about real life…

  7. Naturalism • 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

  8. Characters • 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)

  9. Time Period • 1880’s to about 1940’s

  10. Authors • Richard Wright-” Native Son” • Ernest Hemingway- “A Farewell to Arms”

  11. Ways to Remember • Has elements of realism, has “natural” qualities or forces acting upon the characters that they cant control.

  12. Literature of Discontent • 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.

  13. Vocab 1 • 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

  14. Vocab Cont. • 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

  15. Vocab Cont. • 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

  16. Quiz • http://www.vocabtest.com/

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