The excerpts matched with the literary period are:
- He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgetable lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it. Curly was the victim. -Realism
- In one of the mighty triumphs given to a Roman general upon his entering the world's capital, the bones of a whale, brought all the way from the Syrian coast, were the most conspicuous object in the cymballed procession. -Romanticism
- Oh, God! to sail with such a heathen crew that have small touch of human mothers in them! Whelped somewhere by the sharkish sea The white whale is their demigorgon. Romanticism
- for of the many Southland dogs he had known, not one had shown up worthily in camp and on trail. They were all too soft, dying under the tail, the frost, and starvation. Realism
What is the literary period?
Realism is one that start in the mid-19th century as a reaction to Romanticism's emphasis on emotion and idealism. Realist writers sought to portray life as it truly was, often focusing on the harsh realities of everyday life.
Therefore, Romanticism start in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as a reaction to the Enlightenment's emphasis on reason and logic. Romantic writers valued emotion, imagination, and individualism.