1. Charles Waddell Chesnutt was the first African American writer of the Realist movement. <em>He was popular for his novels and short stories that presented the issue of racial and social identity in the South, after the Civil War. </em>
2.<em> </em>Literary scholars suggest that the realistic dialect Mark Twain's characters speak, including Huck Finn and Jim, helped American find its national voice. <em>This author's writings were characterized by the unique American humor. </em>
3. The passage exemplifies Emily Dickinson's writing style. <em>She lived in isolation, where she wrote many of her poems. Her poems are known for containing short lines, dashes, and unconventional punctuation. Also, some of her poems talk about death. </em>
4. The passage exemplified Ambrose Bierce's writing style. <em>This author was known for using flashbacks, flash-forwards and foreshadowing. Ambrose was a Civil War veteran; he wrote The Devil's Dictionary, which was named as one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature".</em>
