Matching

Match the letter of the author with his or her description. Not all letters will be used.

A. Emily Dickinson

B. Sarah Orne Jewett

C. Mark Twain

D. Ambrose Bierce

E. Kate Chopin

F. Charles Waddell Chesnutt

1. I was the first AfricanAmerican writer of the Realist movement. (1 point)

2. Literary scholars suggest that the realistic dialect my characters speak, including Huck Finn and Jim,

helped America find its national voice. (1 point)

3. The following passage exemplifies my writing style:

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there’s a pair of us—don’t tell!

They’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!

How public, like a frog

To tell your name the livelong day

To an admiring bog! (1 point)

4. The following passage exemplifies my writing style.

The fighting had been hard and continuous; that was attested by all the senses

1. Charles Waddell Chesnutt was the first African American writer of the Realist movement. He was popular for his novels and short stories that presented the issue of racial and social identity in the South, after the Civil War.

2. Literary scholars suggest that the realistic dialect Mark Twain's characters speak, including Huck Finn and Jim, helped American find its national voice. This author's writings were characterized by the unique American humor.

3. The passage exemplifies Emily Dickinson's writing style. She lived in isolation, where she wrote many of her poems. Her poems are known for containing short lines, dashes, and unconventional punctuation. Also, some of her poems talk about death.

4. The passage exemplified Ambrose Bierce's writing style. This author was known for using flashbacks, flash-forwards and foreshadowing. Ambrose was a Civil War veteran; he wrote The Devil's Dictionary, which was named as one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature".