This assignment is a multi-genre Blog Portfolio about the literary genre. Each students need to choose one of author and author’s gen-re from list that Ms. Breaux gave us.
We need to write a research paper, a short story and an artistic portion. I picked up Frederick Douglass who had realism for his writing because I was interested in realism. besides, Frederick Douglass was an important person to African-American people.
I hope you also enjoy my project and can learn more about realism and Frederick Douglass.
May 15, 2007
Overview
Characteristics of Realism
Realism
· fidelity to actuality, reality as it appears through observation
· objectivity, neutrality
· social awareness, critical appraisal of society/institutions
· vernacular/dialect, spoken language verisimilitude
· greater concern over character over action
· absolute opposition to sentimental fiction






