BY ARIEL IDICA, JEFFREY RODOWICZ, AMBER THEREALT, KIRA GOYETT, CAITY GODA, AND JOHN

WHITEHOUSE

Realistic Period (1865-1918)

ADVANCED PLACMENT ENGLISH 12008

Realistic Period

Reconstruction/Turmoil

Urbanization

Depicted everyday life

Vocabulary

• Detailed

• Accurate

• Unembellished

• Unromantic

• Spontaneous

• Authentic

• Truthful

• Dialect, Regionalisms

• Influential

• Proportional Architecture

Authors

Social interactions

Events of their time

Satiric

Edith Wharton

Mark Twain Rebecca Harding

Davis

Henry James

Kate Chopin

Emily Dickinson

Life in the Iron Mills

“The idiosyncrasy of this town is smoke. It rolls sullenly in slow folds from the great chimneys of the iron-foundries, and settles down in black, slimy pools on the muddy streets. Smoke on the wharves, smoke on the dingy boats, on the yellow river,-- clinging in a coating of greasy soot to the house-front, the two faded poplars, the faces of the passers-by. The long train of mules, dragging masses of pig-iron through the narrow street, have a foul vapor hanging to their reeking sides. Here, inside, is a little broken figure of an angel pointing upward from the mantel-shelf; but even its wings are covered with smoke, clotted and black. Smoke everywhere! A dirty canary chirps desolately in a cage beside me. Its dream of green fields and sunshine is a very old dream,--almost worn out, I think.”

Ethan Frome

At the challenge Ethan turned back into the room and faced her. "I can tell you, then. The cat done it."

"The cat?""That's what I said."She looked at him hard, and then turned her

eyes to Mattie, who was carrying the dish-pan to the table.

"I'd like to know how the cat got into my china-closet"' she said.

"Chasin' mice, I guess," Ethan rejoined. "There was a mouse round the kitchen all last evening."

Zeena continued to look from one to the other; then she emitted her small strange laugh.

Ethan Frome Continued

“"You wanted to make the supper-table pretty; and you waited till my back was turned, and took the thing I set most store by of anything I've got, and wouldn't never use it, not even when the minister come to dinner, or Aunt Martha Pierce come over from Bettsbridge-" Zeena paused with a gasp, as if terrified by her own evocation of the sacrilege. “

Artists

Candid

Photographic

Proportional

Repetitive

The Horse in Motion

Eadweard Muybridge

Works

Portrait of a GirlMary Cassatt

Volendam Street SceneRobert Henri

Works Continued

The Gross ClinicThomas Eakins

Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1James Whistler

Rag Time Music

“Ragged,” syncopated melody

Change rhythm - make it syncopated (Uneven tempo)

U.S. origin

Piano