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| Realism is a reaction to _________________ |
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| Realist writers were interested in.... |
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ordinary characters
plots that consist of ordinary events
objectivity
social criticism |
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| author removes himself from the story |
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| When was Mark Twain alive? |
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| Mark Twain was a pen name for..... |
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| What was Mark Twains main landscape in writing? |
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| How old was Twain when his father died? |
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| How did Twain feel about the slaveholding south? |
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| Huck Finn is a persona of ______________________ vs _____________________ |
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| Mark Twain vs Samuel Clemens |
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When was Innocents Abroad written?
It is an _________________ and __________________ motif |
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When was Roughing It written?
What is the narrarator in Roughing it? |
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1872
1st person, unreliable narrarator |
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When was Adventures of Tom Sawyer written?
Where was it set?
what world was it set in? |
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1876
set in St. Petersburg
Childhood/Boyhood world
World of the River |
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| When was Life on the Mississippi written? |
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| When was Huck Finn written? |
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| Walter Scott Disease; insanity that comes from reading too many romantic novels |
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| What are some examples in Huck Finn of WSD? |
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Tom Sawyer (his gang)
Feud b/w Sheperdsons and Grangerfords |
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| What is the "Jim" problem? |
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| decision Huck has to make regarding Jim between what society says is right and what he knows in his heart to be true |
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| What are some examples of the "Jim" problem? |
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Jacksons Island
Searching for Cairo
letter to Miss Watson |
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| The woman exercised temperance in filling her plate with small portions of food |
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| developing or in the process of happening |
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| to cause one to become confused |
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| lacking in seriousness or importance |
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| arrogant, excessively proud and vain |
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| foretelling the future by means of magic |
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