Hasty generalizations are often typified by exaggeration and poor preparation. Thus, one example of a hasty generalization may be "everyone knows what generalizations are." While a hasty generalization may sound accurate at first, a cursory fact check can quickly disprove it.
Modernist writers of fiction tended to prefer indirect characterization. Modernist writers also preferred unreliable narrators. Other literary devices used in modernist writing were stream-of-consciousness and interior monologue.
false causality
They showed the Frinks a way across the river. Give the Frinks fish for trade
abandoned wagons
Cousin Tom
extreme cold was what I got.
Because he now had to repair the nation (apex)
Because it paid well
Rumors of Indian attacks
Crossing a tumultuous river
Lincoln spoke generally about the human cost of war