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According to the editors of your text, often what prevents Regional writers from falling into the category of “Realist” is 

Who was Dr. S. Weir Mitchell?

This individual defined Realism as “Nothing more or nothing less than the truthful treatment of material.”

This New England writer was related to Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

His career was confirmed in 1868 when he became the first editor of the newly established Overland Monthly, a publication of the often unruly culture of the Pacific coast.

In the story “Editha,” which sentence below best describes Mrs. Gearson’s perception of war?

On July 4, 1855, Walt Whitman sent twelve poems, self-published as a collection called Leaves of Grass to ________________________ .

According to the editors of the text, the term cadence is simply another term for rhyme.   

According to the editors of your text, Emily Dickinson’s poetry predates the modernism of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and other modernist poets. 

Walt Whitman’s poety could best be described as conventional in rhyme, meter, and structure.