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Exercises on Realism and Naturalism Ⅰ. Blank Filling. The arbiter of nineteenth century literary realism in America was _____. (William Dean Howells) Henry _____probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters, writing in a rich and intricate style that supported his intense scrutiny of complex human experience. (James) Mark _____, breaking out of the narrow limits of local color fiction, described the breadth of American experience as no one had ever done before, or since. (Twain) _______had an evident influence on naturalism. It seemed to stress the animal man, to suggest that he was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution. (Darwinism) The poetic style Whitman devised is now called _______, that is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. (free verse) In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass , ______gave America its first genuine epic poem. (Walt Whitman) Mrs. Stowe’s masterpiece is ______________. ( Uncle Tom’s Cabin) Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name ______. (Mark Twain) One of Clemens’ best books ______is based on his experiences as a steamboat pilot. (Life on the Mississippi) The result of Mark Twain’s European trip was a series of newspaper articles, later published as a book called _____. (Innocents Abroad) _______was the first literary giant born West of the Mississippi. (Mark Twain) William Sidney Porter, whose pen name was_________, was the author of The Cop and the Anthem. (O. Henry) Many of O. Henry’s stories tell about the lives of poor people in _____. (New York) O. Henry sympathized with the poor and hated those rich who exploited and despised them. This is especially seen in his story entitled ________. (An Unfinished Story) It is said that O. Henry imitated De _______as a model , and there is indeed much in common between these two writers. (Maupassant) The title of one of O. Henry’s books _____ indicates that he considered all the people of New York city worth writing about, instead o