What is a good one-word translation of verismo?

Which Modernist writer is the author of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a thinly disguised autobiography?

A) ?Sinclair Lewis B) ?James Joyce C) ?Sigmund Freud D) ?Langston Hughes

The most important factor in an audience's attitude toward you as the speaker is ___.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).