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    The Canterbury Tales

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    are the Friar, the Pardoner, and the Prioress, and they represent realism in the poem. Realism is a literary term that is often used in literature to portray the reality of life and to confront the truth behind a society, such as the laity. In The Canterbury Tales realism reveals the truth behind this usually fictionalized group of people and exposes the characters for their

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    Dirty Realism The literature of 20th century was dominated by Realism. Likewise, Dirty Realism had a very profound influence on the society during the late 20th century as it depicted the lives of the working class. It also portrayed the hardships of a commoner, and the unpleasant and dark truths of the society that is often forgotten. Just like the literary movement of modernism, Dirty Realism helped the public to perceive and relate the life of the common society and the popular culture. Poetry

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    is considered the Gilded Age, two literary movements were introduced. Realism and naturalism have similarities and they have their differences. Both have very basic views on humanity and religion is absent from both movements. They focused on the real world instead. Realism, though, let writers voice their opinions, concerns, struggles and focused on literary technique. It had a faithful representation on life. Naturalism, on the other hand, was the other literary movement happening in this time period

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    Dick explores this theme through the technique of realism in order to convey an ironic tone within the novel. Because of the literary realism that Dick employs, the universe that is Ragle’s world feels legitimate. Through Ragle’s eyes, Dick illustrates a world where the powers that be control every single part of a world that feels “real.” These authorities who control Ragle’s life are a commentary on our society, just as much as the literary realism is a commentary on our society. Time Out of Joint

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    Wagner Matinee. Highly educated and informed, Cather demonstrated realism techniques and language throughout the short story. Most of her writing, published at the end of the realist era, was not well accepted. A Wagner Matinee strongly contradicts literary techniques and devices of Romanticism while emphasizing regionalism, a form of realism. In comparing and contrasting literary techniques and style of the Romantic and realism eras, A Wagner Matinee, by Willa Cather, would use less emphasize

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    Realism writing started to be used in the 1800s, basically to show what the world actually consisted of and not what our eyes tried to see. Realism did not sugar coat anything, regardless of what it was. It would speak whatever, but always with the truth. In the stories of “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Lawrence Dunbar and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin both authors develop the theme within these two stories. The view of point that these two stories develop is that people go by what is on the

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    Realism, is a literary term used by writers to describe story elements such as setting, characters and themes. Realism’s purpose, is to show the everyday troubles and consequences for the every day person. In realism, writers can explain the events of a story without sugarcoating any of the events. The goal of realism, is to be able to explain the stories elements without coating the story of the details and laying it all out there for the reader. Some of the major characteristics of realism is

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    about the divinity of one with himself and in nature, however, this transitioned in the late nineteenth century. This literary period, known as realism, targets the everyday lives of the individual, including a vast amount of details; which The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson perfectly illustrates. This psychological short story exemplifies the characteristics of the realism most effectively by displaying the characters as the essential focus and being critical of gender roles. Throughout

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    Realism is defined as accepting something or a situation as it is. Realism can be compared in the all three of these stories. One story being fictional and the others based on factual evidence. Realism shows the truth in each novel and its up to the readers or the main character to accept the challenge put in front of it. Jack London wrote “To Build A Fire” to show the literary conflict of man versus nature.Sadly, the man never realizes the reality of his environment and it leads him to his death

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    Modernism and Realism reflected in Fitzgerald and Chopin American Realism and Modernism are reflected in the authors and works we read through the characters’ actions and the overall tones of each work. Both Chopin and Fitzgerald are celebrated authors, known for their groundbreaking works during their lifetime. Realism is a literary period where authors focused on making their stories and characters more realistic and organic, reflecting on real-life experiences, while Modernism is a literary period where

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