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Part 1 Early American Literature: Colonial Period to 1815
Chapter 1 The Literature of the New World
1.
Origin
stories
are
those
dramatizing
______of
how
the
earth
originated
or
of
how
people
established relationships with plants, ______ and the cosmos.(tribal interpretations, animal)
2. Trickster tales are humorous tales featuring______. (trickster characters)
3. Historical narratives are diverse in kinds. Some of them are tribal records of historical events.
Many
other
narratives
feature
______
that
move
in
recognizable
historical
settings.
(legendary
figures)
4. The name of Captain John Smith is now associated with the English expedition that founded the
______ in 1607. (Jamestown colony)
Chapter 2 The Literature of Colonial America: 1620-1763
1.

The colonial period covers almost the entirety of ______ and a great portion of ______. (the
17
th
century, the 18
th
century)
2.

The
year
1620
saw
the
Pilgrims
settling
in
the
tiny
colony
of
Plymouth
in
Massachusetts
which, due to William Bradford
’
s influential work ______, is now regarded as a symbol for
Puritan culture during colonial settlement. (
Of Plymouth Plantation
)
3.

In
the
earlier
colonial
period,
much
of
the
literature
was
produced
by
______
and
______.
(Puritan, Pilgrim writers)
4.

The
term
“
Puritan
”

was
first
applied
to
those
______
who
rejected
Queen
Elizabeth
’
s
religious
settlements
of
1560
because
they
were
determined
to
“
purify
”

their
religion.
(Protestant reformers)
5.

Calvinism is a specific and rather rigid brand of Puritanism. Calvinists are those who follow
the teachings of ______, a religious reformer in France. (John Calvin)
6.

Anne
Bradstreet
’
s
“
domestic
”

poems
and
______
are
today
recognized
as
her
best
literary
achievement. In them, she conveyed her personal feelings for New England and ______. (the
Contemplations, family life)
7.

In
general,
meditative
poetry
is
a
contemplation
of
self
and
expression
of
hoped-for
union
with God or with a ______. But Edward Taylor
’
s poetry also shows an anguished search for
God,
an
intense
personal
struggle
with
his
______
and
with
______.
(transcendent
reality,
spirituality, Satan)
8.

Cotton Mather
’
s most important book is ______. (
Magnalia Christi American
a)
9.

Of
the
quarrels
with
Puritan
beliefs
in
the
17
th

century,
the
cases
of
Anne
Hutchinson
and
______ are of particular significance. (Roger Williams)
10.

Jonathan
Edward
was
a
complex
theologian
in
whom
the
fervor
of
the
______
and
the
thinking
of
______
converged,
if
not
coexisted,
in
contradiction.
(Great
Awakening,
Enlightenment)
11.

Today,
Jonathan
Edward
is
generally
regarded
as
a
pioneering
philosopher
and
the
greatest
mind of the ______ period. (colonial)
12.

The Middle colonies are ______ and ______ more diverse. (culturally,

ethnically)
Chapter 3 Literature and the American Revolution: 1764-1815
1.

Literature in the period of American Revolution (before, during and after) was predominantly
public and ______. (utilitarian)
2.

The
emergence
of
Deism
in
the
18
th

century
America
came
directly
from
the
______.
(Enlightenment)
3.

In
his
lifetime,
Benjamin
Franklin
was
an
inventor,
scientist,
______,
______,
______,
an
exemplary self-made man, a revolutionary hero, and, of course, an ______.

(printer, political
statesman, diplomat, author)
4.

With his restless energy, his optimism and his innovative spirit, Franklin exemplifies the Age
of ______ or what Franklin himself called the Age of Experiment.

(Enlightenment)
5.

Partly because he was very good at promoting himself, Franklin established for the public the
image of a ______ man, and an archetypal American success story that has since become part
of American popular culture.

(self-made)
6.

Although
Poor Richard
’
s Almanacs
are not really in the vein of fiction, ______ could be the
earliest character of fiction created by an American author.


(Poor Richard)
7.

Perhaps
the
best-known
portion
of
Franklin
’
s
Autobiography
is
where
he
speaks
of
the
______ he embraced and how he translated them into daily practices. (13 virtues)
8.

______,
drafted
in
June,
1776,
is
at
once
a
national
symbol
of
liberty
and
a
monument
to
Jefferson as a statesman and author. (
The Declaration of Independence
)
9.

William
Hill
Brown
’
s
novel
______
followed
the
sentimental
mode
and
its
characteristic
theme of seduction. (
The Power of Sympathy
)
Part 2 American Romanticism: 1815-186
Chapter 1 The Age of American Romanticism
1.

Nationalism often goes hand in hand with ______. But the special psychological make-up of
American
nationalism
also
gave
American
______
its
own
particular
characteristics.
(romanticism, romanticism)

2.

American
romanticism
was
influenced
by
European
romanticism,
particularly
German,
______
and
______.
While
showing
characteristics
of
European
romanticism,
American
romantic writers differed from their European counterparts in that they did not show the kind
of ______ as seen in European romanticism.

(English, French, political radicalism)

Chapter 2 Early Romanticism
1.

______
was
the
first
American
storyteller
created
in
a
literary
text,
and
as
a
storyteller
he
resembles his author, Washington Irving. (Rip)
2.

______ and ______ are today two of Irving
’
s best known stories. Both are included in ______,
a
collection
of
sketches
and
stories.
(Rip
Van
Winkle,
The
Legend
Of
Sleepy
Hollow,
The
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
. )
3.

The Leather-stocking Series consists of five novels which, in the order of publications, are:
______,
______,
______,
______,
and
______.

(
The Pioneers,
The
Last of
the Mohicans,
The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslaye
r)
4.

“
Leather- stocking
”
is the nickname for ______ who is in the habit of wearing long deerskin
leggings. (Natty Bumppo)
5.

Natty Bumpoo is both the friend and foe of ______. He seems to respect them, but he retains
his ______ superiority while living with them.

(American Indians, Christian)
6.

Starting
with
______,
Copper
wrote
11
sea
stories.
Among
them,
______
is
a
tale
of
the
adventure
of
Captain
Heidegger
who
gives
up
privacy
in
order
to
aid
the
Americans.
(
The
Pilot, Red Revor
)
7.

______,
one
of Bryant
’
s
best
poems,
served
as
a
bridge
over
which
the
young
poet
moved
towards his father
’
s religious liberalism (Deism and Unitarianism) and towards Wordsworth
’
s
nature.

(
“
Thanatopsis
”
)

Chapter 3 Transcendentalism and Symbolic Representation
1.

The
transcendental
Club
sponsored
two
major
activities.
First,
they
published
16
issues
of
______, a quarterly, between 1840 ad 1844. ______ was the first editor. (The Dial, Margaret
Fuller)
2.

______ is today regarded as the
“
Father
”
of American literature. (Emerson)
3.

As
the
leading
spokesman
for
Transcendentalism,
Emerson
once
explained
that
this
philosophy meant ______. (a little beyond)
4.

“
The
Over- Soul
”

presents
the
more
mystical
side
of
Emerson
ad
the
basis
of
______.
The
“
Over-Soul
”

refers
to
the
profound
and
all-encompassing
______
to
which
each
individual
soul should lie upon. (Transcendentalism, spiritual nature)
5.

Today Thoreau is primarily remembered by two of his works: ______ and the essay ______.
(Walden, Civil Disobedience)
Chapter 4 Hawthorne, Melville and Poe
1.

Hawthorne wrote well over a hundred stories, essays and sketches, and is the author of four
remarkable novels: ______, ______, ______and ______. (
The Scarlet Letter, The House of the
Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun
)
2.

In Hawthorne
’
s writings there is a consistent concern with the psychological currents beneath
the
______.
______
is
a
typical
Hawthornian
metaphor
for
this
concern.
(conscious,
A
3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

dream-like journey at night)
Hawthorne depicts
“
sin
”
not for its own sake. He allows us to study the effects of sin on the
______ and on people related to them. (sinners)
Many
of
Hawthorne
’
s
male
characters
live
in
______.
It
seems
extraordinarily
difficult
for
them to know someone else and to disclose themselves to another person. (isolation)
If
there
was
anything
in
the
19
th

century
close
to
being
the
American
epic,
it
was
______,
published one year after
The Scarlet Letter
. (Moby Dick)
The novel
Moby Dick
tells the strange story of the possessed and implacable Captain ______
risking
his
life,
those
of
his
crew
and
his
ship
on
the
rough
seas
in
search
of
a
monstrous
______.

(Ahab, white whale)
Poe
is
a
critic,
poet
and
short
story
writer,
and
he
is
important
in
all
three
aspects.
His
contribution to French symbolist poetry was made not primarily through his ______ but his
______.

(poetry, stories and criticism)
“
The Raven
”
captures the mourning of the narrator for the loss of his beloved when a raven
monotonously repeats the word ______.

(Nevermore)
Chapter 8 Whitman and Dickinson
1.

______
and
______
were
two
major
poets
in
the
late
19th
century.
(Walt
Whitman,
Emily
Dickinson)
2.

Technically speaking, Whitman
’
s poetry is
“
free verse
”
in that the lack of ______ and ______
is known as his major technical innovation. (meter, rhyme)
3.

The speaker in many of Dickinson
’
s poems is in ______ and ______. Frequently, the speaker
speaks of a ______. (anguish, pain, recurring pain)
4.

______ is the longest and one of the best in Whitman
’
s canon. (
“
Song of Myself
”
)
5.

Emily Dickinson wrote nearly ______ poems, although fewer than 20 of them were printed in
her lifetime. (2000)
Chapter 9 A House Divided: Writing Against Slavery
1.

______ boosted abolitionist sentiments and shook the conscience of the South.

(
Uncle Tom
’
s
Cabin
)
2.

the novel
’
s appeal comes from the extreme sentimentality that derives from the deaths of little
Eva
St.
Clare
and
______
as
well
as
from
melodramatic
events
such
as
______
’
s
escape
across the ice of the Ohio River. (Uncle Tom, Eliza)
3.

Frederick
Douglass
wrote
the
powerful
autobiography
______.
(
Narrative
of
the
Life
of
Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
)
4.

Harriet
Ann
Jacob
’
s
first-person
account,
______,
is
the
only
slave
narrative
written
by
a
woman. (
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
)
Part 3 American Realism: 1865-1914
Chapter 1 The Age of Realism
1.

Realism
reacts
against
romanticism
’
s
emphasis
on
intuition,
______,
a
dreary
(or
innocent)
sense
of
wonder,
______,
______,
and
general
optimistic
belief
in
the
goodness
of
things.
(imagination, idealism, faith in nature )
Chapter 2 Regional and Local Color Writings
1. ______ and ______ writings may be considered the early stage of literary realism. They were
instances
of
realism
insofar
as
they
depicted
contemporary
life,
used
the
speech
of
______ and
avoided, in general, fantastic plotlines.

(Regional, local, the common people)
2.

Ernest
Hemingway
once
remarked:
“
All
modern
literature
comes
from
on
Book
by
Mark
Twain called ______.
”
(
Huckleberry Finn
)
3.

As an ironist, Mark Twain allows us to see the adult through the eyes of a ______, and to see
the child through an ______
’
s perspective. (child, adult)
4.

Tom
Sawyer

is
the
story
of
the
boy
Tom
Sawyer
and
his
friends
______
and
______.

(Huckleberry Finn, Joe Harper)
5.

“
The
Celebrated
Jumping
Frog
of
Calavera
County
”

is
a
“
tall
tale
”

filled
with
the
kind
of
exaggeration and comedy that characterize ______life.

(the frontier)
6.

There were many other regionalists and local colorists. Some of the prominent ones include
_____ in New England, ______ and ______ in the deep South, and ______ who wrote of the
far West mining camps. (Sarah Orne, George Washington Cable, Kate Chopin, Brett Harte)

Chapter 3 Henry James and William Dean Howells
1.

In
Henry
James
’
s
texts,
______
and
______
are
two
different
societies
and
cultural
forces
brought into contact.

(Europe, America)
2.

Henry James wrote 36 volumes of fictional works. A dozen or so are longer novels. The more
complete versions of three of the best--______, ______,
The Golden Bowl
—
were published
posthumously. (
The Wings of Dove, The Ambassadors
)
3.

Henry James had a liking for the short-story form. However, his elaboration on details often
led to the expression of short story themes into short novels or novellas. The two best-known
novellas are: ______ and ______.


(
Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw
)
4.

While William Dean Howells was a journalist for the Ohio State Journal he wrote ______, a
book which helped Lincoln
become elected and which brought Howells recognition and an
appointment as American Counsel in Venice.


(
The Campaign Life of Abraham Lincoln
)
5.

In The Rise of Silas Lapham
, Lapham is a sturdy country-bred man who becomes successful
as a paint manufacturer and has an opportunity to rise in ______ society.

(Boston)
Chapter 4 Literary Naturalism
1.

Under the influence of European writers such as Emile
Zola, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot,
American
literary
______
emerged
in
the
1890s
as
an
outgrowth
of
American
realism.


(naturalism)
2.

In naturalist fiction, the characters are often ______ in the social stratum. (the lowest)
3.

The
naturalist
stories
are
often
about
those
rendered
helpless
by
uncontrollable
forces.
The
mood is dark and _____. (pessimistic)
4.

Jack London
’
s masterpiece ______ is somewhat autobiographical. (
Martin Eden
)
5.

Norris
’
s novel ______ has been called
“
the first full- bodied naturalistic American novel
”
and
“
a consciously naturalistic manifesto
”
. (
McTeague
)
6.

The first novel of Theodore Dreiser was ______. (
Sister Carrie
)
7.

The protagonist of Dreiser
’
s
Trilogy of Desire
is ______.

(Frank Cowperwood)
Chapter 5 Women Writing on the
“
Woman Question
”

1.

In
literature,
writing
on
the
“
woman
question
”

mostly
meant
critiquing
the
Victorianist
cultural code and promoting ______. (women
’
s liberation)
2.

The
Awakening

presents
the
story
of
______
’
s
doomed
attempt
to
find
her
own
fulfillment
through passion. (Edna Pontellier)
3.

The
Awakening
is
simultaneously
a
______
novel,
a
______novel,
a
______
novel,
and
a
______ novel.

(local color, realist, romantic, feminist)
4.

Like Flaubert
’
s
Madame Bovary,
Kate Chopin
’
s
______
was

condemned not because it was
sexy but because it deviates from the sexual codes of
“
good society.
”


(
The Awakening
)
5.

As
a
fictionalized
version
of
“
rest
cure,
”

“
The
Yellow
Wallpaper
”

is
a
powerful
feminist
indictment of the norms in a ______ culture.

(patriarchal)
6.

Thematically,
Edith
Wharton
’
s
novels
reflect
the
struggles
of
the
individual
members
of
______in
their
attempts
to
actualize
themselves
within
the
rigid
behavioral
mores
of
their______.


(elite societies, class)
Part 4 American Modernism: 1914-1945
Chapter 15 Modernism in the American Grain
1.

In
its
most
apparent
sense,
“
modernism
”

indicates
an
impulse
towards
creating
something
______.


(new)
2.

In
modern
fiction,
______
point
of
view
—
representing
a
given
perspective
—
is
used
more
often. (the first person)
3.

If American Romanticism
was the first
flowering of American literature, American ______
was the second flowering. (modernism)
4.

Freud
boldly
and
naturalistically
explained
that
human
behavior
is
largely
the
result
of