| A | B |
|---|
| Bret Harte | author of "Outcasts of Poker Flat" |
| Charlotte Perkins-Gilman | author of "The Yellow Wallpaper" |
| Regionalistic | writing that is descriptive about a certain area, including dialect, customs, mannerisms |
| Emily Dickinson | Because I could not stop for death |
| Emily Dickinson | Hope is a thing with feathers |
| Emily Dickinson | I heard a fly buzz when I died |
| Emily Dickinson | My life closed twice before its close |
| Jack London | author of "To Build a Fire" |
| Mark Twain | author of "Life on the Mississippi" |
| Naturalism | extreme Realism, usually someone dies |
| Willa Cather | author of "The Sculptor's Funeral" |
| Realism | writing that depicts real life--real people with real problems in ordinary settings |
| Kate Chopin | author of "The Story of an Hour" |
| Stephen Crane | author of "The Open Boat" |
| Frame story | a story within a story |
| John Oakhurst | "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" |
| Mother Shipton | "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" |
| The Duchess | "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" |
| Uncle Billy | "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" |
| Tom Simson | "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" |
| Steavens | "The Sculptor's Funeral" |
| Harvey Merrick | "The Sculptor's Funeral" |
| Jim Laird | "The Sculptor's Funeral" |
| Sand City, Kansas | "The Sculptor's Funeral" |
| Jim Smiley | "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County" |
| Leonidas W. Smiley | "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County" |
| Simon Wheeler | "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County" |
| Dan'l Webster | "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County" |
| Andrew Jackson | "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County" |
| frame story or story within a story | "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County" |
| Louise Mallard | "The Story of an Hour" |
| Brently Mallard | "The Story of an Hour" |
| Josephine | "The Story of an Hour" |
| Pepper, the dog | "To Build a Fire" |
| the Oldtimer | "To Build a Fire" |
