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Assess the style, tone, and content of the following passage and determine if it is the work of
an American Romantic or American Realist.

“The correspondent plainly saw the soldier. He lay on the sand with his feet out straight and
still. While his pale left hand was upon his chest in an attempt to thwart the going of his life.
the blood came between his fingers. In the far Algerian distance, a city of low square forms
was set against a sky that was faint with the last sunset hues."

A. American Romantic

B. American Realist

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From the word choices of the author, we can detect what genre of writing they have employed. Given the style, tone, and content of the passage above, I can deduce that this is the work of

  • An American Realist

American Realism is a genre of writing that depicts life evens exactly as they are. The author uses very vivid pictures to illustrate events.

It is different from American Romanticism that clouds the true nature of events and focuses on mysteries. Romanticism also focuses on imagination and sensation.

The use of adjectives like pale, a sky that was faint, etc, paints events as they really are.

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