Characteristics(to be continuted Natural language: Diction is natural vernacular, not heightened or poetic; tone may be comiC, satiric, or matter-of-fact Objective representatin: Objectivity in presentation becomes increasingly important: overt authorial comments or intrusions diminish as the century progresses Interior or psychological realism is represented in a variant form a In Black and White Strangers, Kenneth Warren suggests that a basic difference between realism and sentimentalism is that in realism, "the redemption of the individual lay within the social world, but in sentimental fiction, "the redemption of the social world lay with the individua"(75-76)Characteristics (to be continuted) Natural language: Diction is natural vernacular, not heightened or poetic; tone may be comic, satiric, or matter-of-fact. Objective representatin: Objectivity in presentation becomes increasingly important: overt authorial comments or intrusions diminish as the century progresses. Interior or psychological realism is represented in a variant form. ◼ In Black and White Strangers, Kenneth Warren suggests that a basic difference between realism and sentimentalism is that in realism, "the redemption of the individual lay within the social world," but in sentimental fiction, "the redemption of the social world lay with the individual" (75-76)