【正确答案】正确答案：Local color refers to a fiction or a poetry that focuses on specific features, including characters, dialects, customs, history, and the landscape of a particular region. Between the Civil War and the end of the 19th century, this mode of writing became dominant in American literature. This kind of fiction features an extensive written simulation of regional vernacular, a conspicuous effort to catch the nuances of local speech. William Faulkner is one of the most important writers of the Southern literature, and his most celebrated novels such as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying are both fictions of local color.