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English 11 Honors: Realism Pre-Test

2.1 Multiple Choice

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2.1 For the following questions, select the best answer from the list provided.
2 Write the letter of your answer in the blank provided.

1. What is a subcategory of the American Realism

movement?
a. Modernism
b. Regionalism
c. Internationalism
d. Formalism
2. This kind of writing would best be described as a
Narrative piece.
a. A Bureau of Motor Vehicles handbook
b. Twilight
c. a journal of a slave describing his experiences
d. The Da Vinci Code
3. A well written narrative would have the following
sentence:
a. “The man smiled.”
b. “Wincing, she pointed at him.”
c. “Laura thrust her hand out, grabbing his sweaty hand with
just enough strength to keep her curled fingers wrapped
around his palm.”
d. “He hated it when they called him names.”
4. This is NOT a benefit of using a poetic device in your
normal prose writing.
a. readers will be whisked out of reality, kind of like in the
Romantic movement
b. the writing can be made far more vibrant
c. poetic devices can move the readers emotions
d. the reader’s attention is grabbed by poetic devices
5. What is a characteristic of literature in the Regionalism
subcategory?
a. emphasis on animals
b. emphasis on a certain type of point of view
c. is written before 1850
d. often uses a certain type of dialect in dialogue
6. What is NOT a common term within point of view?
a. First person
b. Third person omnivorous
c. Third person omniscient
d. Third person limited
7. The subcategory of Naturalism focuses on:
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c. relationships between man and nature
d. the natural state of humanity in the 1800s
8. What would be a typical writing in the Naturalism
subcategory?
a. an article from an 1870s newspaper about the logging
industry
b. a description of life from psychologist Sigmund Freud
c. a story about 4 people stranded in a boat after a boat
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sank, where one of the people dies from drowning, by
Stephen Crane
d. a narrative describing the life of an aardvark
9. Lincoln used this rhetorical device in his Gettysburg
Address:
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a. Comparison/Contrast
b. Repetition
c. Analogy
d. Rhetorical Questions
10. Realism strives to depict what?
a. The ideal of what life should be.
b. The hopes and dreams of humankind.
c. Life in the cities.
d. Real life.

Short Answer
Answer the following questions in one sentence or less. Complete sentences
not required.

1. Name one benefit to employing Third Person Omniscient point of view.

2. Name two elements of style that Frederick Douglass uses in his slave
narrative to make it vibrant and if they are effective (use evidence).

3. Why did Lincoln see the Civil War as necessary?

4. What is dialect and how is it applicable to Regoinalism/Realism?

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4.2,4.3 Name a rhetorical device that both Lincoln and President Obama
use in their respective speeches.

Essay
Answer the following questions using the following essay format: a short
introduction with your thesis (answer in a sentence), a body giving evidence,
and a conclusion that begins with your thesis.

1. Do you believe in the validity in Naturalism? Do you see more

to life? Why?

2. What things occurring today parallel events happening during

the American Realism movement?