William Dean Howells attacked sentimentality of thought and feeling, which he believed presented readers with a false representation of the moral and ethical choices that they would face in their own lives.

In Twain’s “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” according to Jim Smiley, a frog can become a great jumper if it is __________.

In your own words, briefly describe the conflict in “A White Heron.”

Broadly speaking, unlike American writers of the first half of the 19th century, many of America’s writers after the Civil War

If “Outcasts of Poker Flat” has a theme/moral to be communicated reader, it might be that

Apparently Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s mother withheld from her children all physical expressions of love, hoping to prevent their later disillusionment over broken relationships. 

This regionalist author wrote The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories.

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

During the Civil War, Walt Whitman

Whitman once said, “I was simmering, simmering, _______________ brought me to a boil.”