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AmericanLiterature:AConciseHistory
I.Review
1.WhowroteTheAmerican?(2008)
A.HermanMelville B.NathanielHawthorne
C.HenryJames D.TheodoreDreiser

2.DeathofaSalesmanwaswrittenby____.(2007)
A.ArthurMillerB.ErnestHemingway
C.RalphEllisonD.JamesBaldwin

3.ThenovelForWhomtheBellTollsiswrittenby___.(2006)
A.ScottFitzgeraldB.WilliamFaulkner
C.EugeneO’NeilD.ErnestHemingway

4.WilliamSydneyPorter,knownasO’Henry,ismostfamousfor_____.(2005)
A.hispoemsB.hisplays
C.hisshortstoriesD.hisnovels

II.HistoricalPeriods

1.ColonialPeriod:17th~18th(faith→reason)
2.RomanticPeriod:endof18thtotheCivilWar★
3.TheAgeofRealism:1865-1890★
4.TheAgeofNaturalism:1890-1900
5.ModernPeriod:1912-1945★
6.PostwarRealism:1950s-1960s
7.Postmodernism:1960s-1980s

III.KeyFigures

1.BenjaminFranklin
2.JamesFenimoreCooper,WashingtonIrving;EdgarAllanPoe,WaltWhitman,EmilyDickinson/NathanielHawthorne,HermanMelville(R.W.Emerson,H.D.Thoreau)
3.O’Henry,HenryJames,MarkTwain
4.StephanCrane,TheodoreDreiser,JackLondon
5.EzraPound,T.S.Eliot,R.L.Frost/ErnestHemingway,F.S.Fitzgerald,SinclairLewis,JohnSteinbeck/EugeneO’Neill,TennesseeWilliams,ArthurMiller
6.JeromeSalinger
7.Nabokov

MarkTwain:①Trend:realism(localcolorism)②Genre:fiction③Masterpiece:TheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinn④DistinctiveStyle:vernacularlanguage⑤OtherImportantWorks

IV.Sample

1.Americanliteratureproducedonlyonefemalepoetduringthe19thcentury.Shewas__________.
A.AnneBradstreetB.JaneAusten
C.KatherineAnnePorterD.EmilyDickinson

2.ThefirstAmericantowintheNobelPrizeforLiteraturewasasharpsocialcritic,whosenamewas__________.
A.T.S.EliotB.SinclairLewis
C.ErnestHemingwayD.WilliamFaulkner

3.WhichofthefollowingisNOTincludedinDreiser’s
trilogyofdesireconcerningtheruthlessnessof
capitalists?
A.TheGeniusB.TheFinancier
C.TheTitanD.TheStoic

4.WithHowells,James,andMarkTwainactiveonthescene,__________becamethemajortrendintheseventiesandeightiesofthenineteenthcentury.
A.sentimentalismB.romanticism
C.realismD.naturalism

5.From1732to1758,Franklinwrot