RETEACH

Name:      Luis romero Date:      

REALISM

In a work of literature, realism presents the details of everyday life accurately.

Features of realistic drama can be recognized in the following:
• the setting, which mirrors real life and may be an actual place or historical
period
• the dialogue, which often includes slang or dialect and reflects the way
people actually speak to one another
• the plot, which includes events that are plausible and reactions to those
events that are authentic.

DIRECTIONS: Choose the item that best fits the realist model for each situation
that is described.
1. Which setting detail would you expect to find in a realist family comedy taking place
in the 1920s?
A. a box of cereal that is labeled “organic”
B. a movie poster
C. a TV guide

2. Which line of dialogue would you expect to hear in a realist western set in the
1880s?
A. “This feller seemed real friendly-like, as far as I could reckon.”
B. “This individual seemed amiable, as far as I could ascertain.”
C. “This dude seemed copacetic, as far as I could fathom.”
3. Which plot detail would you expect to find in a realist movie that takes place in a
tough section of Chicago in 1928?
A. gangsters who sell bootleg liquor
B. pharmaceutical salespeople who sell counterfeit medicine
C. police officers who sell unlicensed software

4. Which character detail would you expect to find in a realist comedy taking place in
the 1960s?
A. a girl singing a Bruce Springsteen song
B. a woman playing Dungeons and Dragons
C. a boy with a Beatles haircut

5. Which detail would you expect to find in a realist drama about the life of basketball
player Michael Jordan?
A. Jordan sending a text to a friend
B. Jordan being mobbed by fans as he enters a restaurant
C. Jordan being banned from playing because of racial discrimination

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Name:      Luis Romero Date:      

REALISM

DIRECTIONS: Choose the item that best fits the realist model for each situation
that is described.
1. Which action would you expect to find in a realist Jane Austen novel set in England
in the early 1800s?
A. characters walking alongside an early version of the automobile
B. characters viewing a photographic poster on the way to the market
C. characters walking through a flock of sheep on the way to the pond
2. Which line of dialogue would you expect to hear in a realist play set during
Shakespeare’s time?
A. “This above all: to thine own self be true.”
B. “This above all: do your own thing.”
C. “This above all: be a good dude.”
3. Which detail would you expect to find in a realist drama set in the 1970s?
A. classical music playing in a concert hall
B. disco music playing in a club
C. hip hop music playing in a club

4. Which detail would you expect to find in a realist adventure story set in the
fourteenth century?
A. people hiring slave ships to go to America
B. people worrying about the plague reaching their town
C. Native Americans being killed by diseases brought in by Europeans
5. Which plot detail would you expect to find in a realist film set in Roman times?
A. a young woman becomes a general in the Roman army
B. a young man is forced to fight in gladiator wars
C. Roman soldiers smoking tobacco during a break in the action

6. Which detail would you expect to find in a realist American comedy set in 1999?
A. a family excited about the purchase of their first color television
B. characters worrying about the Great Depression
C. characters using dial-up Internet

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