Read the excerpt from chapter 11 of the awakening.
“edna, dear, are you not coming in soon? ” he asked again, this time fondly, with a note of entreaty.
“no, i am going to stay out here.”
“this is more than folly,” he blurted out. “i can’t permit you to stay out there all night. you must come in the house instantly.”
which best explains how the excerpt is an example of realism?
the conversation is a symbolic criticism of marriage.
the conversation imitates conversations in real life.
the conversation is not one that could occur in reality.
the conversation has an underlying tone of anger.

B) The conversation imitates conversations in real life.

Explanation: In literature, realism is a movement that started in France in the nineteenth century, and the authors of the movement tried to represent the everyday-situations as they were (like relationships, or familie issues), without making them more beautiful or using fantastic elements. In this case, the excerpt is an example of realism because it imitates a real conversation between a married couple.

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human