Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author's tone is writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ____________ .
A. rational
B. humorous
C. optimistic
D. pessimistic
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The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American _________ .
A. local colorism
B. vernacularism
C. modernism
D. naturalism
Most of Emily Dickinson's poems were published ____________ .
A. when she was young
B. after her failed live affair
C. in her old age
D. after her death
Henry James is mostly concerned with __________ in his fiction.
A. the inner life of human beings
B. violent events in history
C. small-town life in backward regions
D. sufferings of the aged
Which of the following writers is NOT the dominant figure of the Realistic Period in American literature?
A. Herman Melville
B. Stephen Crane
C. Henry James
D. Mark Twain