Read the selection below and complete the assigned questions.
1) Define these key ideas as outlined in the selection?
a. Realism
b. Regionalism
c. local color
d. aftermath of war
e. social reform
2) How might the events of the late 1800s have caused people to lose the optimism and
confidence that marked the earlier years of the nineteenth century period of Romanticism)?
3) How is Realism different from Romanticism?