Question

In the twentieth century, realism led to ______. romance, naturalism, the political novel

Answer 1

In the twentieth century, realism led to naturalism.

Literary realism is part of the realist art movement which initiated with mid-nineteenth-century French literature (Stendhal), and Russian literature (Alexander Pushkin) and extending to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Naturalism is a literary movement beginning in the late nineteenth century, alike to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism.

Answer 2

I think the best answer would be naturalism. In the twentieth century, realism led to naturalism. Naturalism was an outgrowth of the literary realism. It is a literary movement which uses detailed realism to depict social conditions and environment has a unbreakable link to humans. Its goal is to show believable everyday reality.