Answer:
It was very early in the morning, the streets clean and deserted, I was walking to the station. As I compared the tower clock with my watch I realized that it was already much later than I had thought, I had to hurry, the shock of this discovery made me unsure of the way, I did not yet know my way very well in this town; luckily, a policeman was nearby, I ran up to him and breathlessly asked him the way. He smiled and said: “From me you want to know the way?” “Yes,” I said, “since I cannot find it myself.” “Give it up! Give it up,” he said, and turned away with a sudden shout, like people who want to be alone with their laughter.
Answer:
Realism.
Explanation:
The given quote is taken from the novel titled 'The Marrow of Tradition' written by Charles Waddell Chestnutt in 1901. The novel is a historical novel that portrayed the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898.
The literary era that the given quote resemble is realism. The novel was written during the realist literary period. Realism is an era between 1865-1900, a movement that opposed Romanticism.
So, the correct asnwer is realism.
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