2. Realism: the depiction of life as most people live and know it; portrays ordinary life precisely

3. From the Civil War (1860's) to the turn of the century (1890-1900)

4. Realism was a reaction to the Romantic Period. Slavery/ Civil War Industrialization/ Working Conditions Struggles of everyday life

5. The attempt in literature and art to represent life as it really is, without sentimentalizing or idealizing it. Realistic writing often depicts the everyday life and speech of ordinary people Opposite of Romanticism Local color and regionalism are part of realism Less emphasis on the imagination and more on observed fact Influence of science

6. Human potentialities  human actualities Ideas  facts Personal vision  observed social behavior

7. LOCAL COLOR MOVEMENT: or Regionalism Close attention to dialect, customs, and character types of a particular region Realism in its objective observation of social facts Vernacular style: based on the patterns and rhythms of language as Americans actually spoke it Examples of local color writers: Bret Harte, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain Examples of writers using vernacular: Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

8. Frederick Douglass- ( whose slave narrative we will read) Mark Twain Kate Chopin Jack London