Review For Test on Realism/Naturalism
I. List of Works: Match the writer to his/her work
____1. “Success is counted sweetest”
A. Ambrose Bierce
____2. “I Hear America Singing”
B. Emily Dickinson
____3. “Because I could not stop for death”
C. Jack London
____4. “To Build a Fire”
D. Walt Whitman
____5. “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
E. Mark Twain
____6. “The Lowest Animal”
II. List TWO characteristics for the following poets (356-359)
Walt Whitman
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Emily Dickinson
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III. List the elements of Naturalism (459)
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IV. List the elements of Realism (457)
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“I Hear America Singing” (p. 365)
1. Define catalog:
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2. Who/What are the subjects of the poem?
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3. What is Whitman celebrating in this poem? _________________________________________
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4. What is the tone of the poem? _____________________________________________________
“Success is Counted Sweestest” (p. 399)
1. What is the theme of this work?
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2. What is the tone of this work? ____________________________________________________
3. What is the analogy in this work? _________________________________________________
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“Because I could not stop for Death” (p. 401)
1. Define irony:
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2. What is ironic about the way Death is described?
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3. Who is in the carriage?
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4. What does the carriage pass, and why is each significant?
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5. Example of consonance: ___________________________________________________________
6. Example of assonance: ____________________________________________________________
7. Example of personification: ________________________________________________________
8. Example of metaphor: ____________________________________________________________
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (p. 489)
1. Define the following terms:
Point of View:
-omniscient
-objective
-third person limited
2. Describe setting: ________________________________________________________________
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3. Describe Peyton Farquhar: _______________________________________________________
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4. Describe plot:
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“The Lowest Animal”- (p. 535)
1. Define satire:
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2. Summarize Twain’s theory on humanity:
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3. What are the human follies Twain satirizes?
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“To Build a Fire”- (p. 546)
1. List characters: ________________________________________________________________
2. Describe setting: _______________________________________________________________
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3. Describe plot:
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4. Elements of naturalism in this work?
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