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In some naturalist writings, readers may detect elements of absurdity, humor, and randomness.

Naturalist writings are often optimistic.

The American modernist poet Ezra Pound’s credo for artists of the modern era was to ___________________ .

Broadly speaking, realism, regionalism, and naturalism are somewhat intertwined and connected.

This novel is often referred to as America’s first wholly naturalist novel:

Naturalst writers see humans — in our case characters who cannot control or understand how their lives are controlled by forces — environmental, internal stresses, fears, and drives.

The poet who wrote The Spoon River Anthology, poems based on the lives of people in a Midwestern town, was

The process of “natural selection” means that only the strongest, brightest, and most adaptable elements of a species will survive.

Unlike the fiction associated with realism, the naturalist writers

Dreiser’s fiction often explores the conflict between human needs and the demands of society for material success.