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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.

One criticism that naturalist writers had of realists was that they

During his life Mark Twain claimed 

In “A White Heron,” what happens after Sylvia shadows the hunter during his excursion?

Which of the following is NOT a reason for the development of Realism?

He was the youngest of fourteen siblings, the son of a Methodist minister, dropped out of college at nineteen, and wrote America’s first wholly naturalist novel.

In Twain’s “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” which of the following best describes Jim Smiley?