1-American realism was an early …… century idea in art, music and literature?
An early 20th century


2- American realism showed through these different types of work ……of the time period?
Reflections


3- Whether it was a cultural portrayal, or a scenic view of downtown New York City, these images and works of literature,music and painting depicted a?
Contemporary view of what was happening; an attempt at defining what was real


4- Realism in American Literature was during the period?
1860-1890


5- In American literature, the term"realism" encompasses the period of time from?
From the Civil War to the turn of the century


6- William Dean Howells, Rebecca Harding Davis, Henry James, Mark Twain,and others wrote?
Fiction during the American Realism period


7- William Dean Howells, Rebecca Harding Davis, Henry James, Mark Twain,and others wrote fiction devoted to?
Accurate representation and an exploration of American lives in various contexts


8- What provided a fertile environment for literary readers interested in understanding these rapid shifts in American culture was?
the United States grew rapidly after the Civil War*
the increasing rates of democracy and literacy*
the rapid growth in industrialism and urbanization*
an expanding population base due to immigration*
a relative rise in middle-class affluence*


9- In drawing attention to this connection, Amy Kaplan has called realism a?

10- Who called realism as a "strategy for imagining and managing the threats of social change"?
Amy Kaplan


11- (Social Construction of American Realism ix), written by Amy Kaplan,considered realism a "strategy for imagining and managing the threats of……….change"?
Social change


12-Realism was a movement that encompassed the entire country, or at least the?
Midwest and South


13- Many of the writers and critics associated with realism (notably W.D. Howells) were based in?
New England


14- Among the Midwestern writers considered realists would be?
Joseph Kirkland, E. W. Howe, and Hamlin Garland; the Southern writer John W. DeForest


15- "Miss Ravenal's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty " was written by the Southern writer?
John W. DeForest


16- "Miss Ravenal's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty" is often considered a?
A realist novel


17- American Realism began as?
A reaction to and a rejection of Romanticism, with its emphasis on emotion, imagination, and the individual


18- The American Realism began as early as the?
1830's


19- The American Realism reached prominence and held sway from the end of?
The Civil War to around the end of the nineteenth century


20- The American Realism movement was centered in?
Fiction, particularly the novel


21- The American Realism attempted?
Fidelity to real life, or "actuality," inits representation


22-The realist concerns himself with the?
Here and now


23-The realist concerns himself with the here and now, centering his work in?
His own time, dealing with common-place everyday events and people, and with the socio-political climate of his day


24-Common Themes and Elements in Realism are?
Pragmatism*
literature of the common-place*
attempts to represent real life*
ordinary people--poor and middle class*
ordinary speech in dialect--use of vernacular*
recent or contemporary life*
subject matter presented in an unidealized,unsentimentalized way*
democratic function of literature*
social criticism--effect on audience is key*
presents indigenous American life*
importance of place--regionalism, "local color"*
sociology and psychology*