 way that a work of literature is written.
Famous Realist Writers
Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Harriet Beecher Stowe
A person, place, object or activity that has a concrete meaning but also stands for something beyond itself.
Attempts to present the world as it really is.
An offshoot of realism; attempts to show how human behavior is a product of environment and heredity
Famous Naturalist Writer
A pair of rhyming lines in a poem
A stanza of four lines in a poem
American form of humorous story that features extreme exaggeration.
Writing that imitates ordinary life and brings a region alive by portraying its typical dress, mannerisms, customs, character types and dialects.
Patterns of speech specific to certain regions of the country.
Elements of Mark Twain's Writing Style
Comic exaggeration, humorous subject matter, rambling narratives, use of dialect and idioms
Phrase peculiar to a culture.
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