Question

Near the end of the period of American drama that lasts from the Civil War to the turn of the century, trends in American drama began that continued into the twentieth century. These trends included increasing: _____. Select all that apply. artificiality of style focus on commercial success instead of literary merit realism treatment of serious social problems use of symbolism

Answer 1

These trends included increasing: "focus on commercial success instead of literary merit (although this wasn't universally the case)" and "treatment of serious social problems"

Answer 2

Answer:

• These trends included increasing: "focus on commercial success instead of literary merit" and "treatment of serious social problems".

Explanation:

Walt Whitman guaranteed that an extraordinary writing would emerge out of the time of those four years, and what rose in the next decades was a writing that displayed a point by point and unembellished vision of the world as it genuinely seemed to be.

This was the pith of realism. Naturalism was a heightened type of it. After the horrid substances of a staggering war, they turned into authors' essential method of articulation.