1- American literature, its literary tradition begins as linked to the broader tradition of English Literature



2- Captain John Smithto be the first American author, when he wrote The General Historie of Virginia,New England, and the Summer Isles



3- Washington Irving(The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) was the first


American to gain an international literary reputation.



4- American literature in its true sense did not begin until 19th century



5- Poe, Emerson, and Hawthorneare near perfect representations for Romanticism.



6- American realismwas idea in art, music and literature that showed through these different types of work, reflections of the time period. Whether it was a cultural portrayal , or a scenic view of downtown New York City, these images and works of literature, music and painting depicted a contemporary view of what was happening; an attempt at defining what was real.



7- Naturalism describes a type of literature that attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity and


detachment to its study of human beings



8- Modernism: Marked by a strong and intentional break with tradition. This break includes a strong reaction against established Religious , political, and social views.



9 - Harlem Renaissancewas known as the "New Negro Movement



10 - Harlem Renaissance In its references to the black American past and experience of slavery



بس مو متاكد من السؤال بس انه كان يقصد فيهالعبيد


11-Because I Could Not Stop for Death is A Poem by Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)

12- “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” is a lyric poem on the theme of death

13- The journey to the grave begins in Stanza 1,

14- theme of the poem seems to be that death is not to be feared

15- house: Speaker's tomb

16- Tulle: Netting.

17- Rhyme in first stanzas is ABCD

18- Alliteration: gazing grain

19- Anaphora: We passed the school, where children stroveAt recess, in the ring;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,We passed the seXng sun. (lines 9-12)

20- PersonificationWe passed the setting sun.

Hope is the Thing with Feathers

21- Use of the word “thing” denotes that hope is something abstract and vague.

22- poem further broadens the metaphorby giving hope delicate and sweet characteristics in the word “perches

23- Choice of the word perches also suggests that, like a bird, hope is planning to stay

24- And sings the tune—without the words,” gives the reader a sense that hope is universal

25- “gale,” a horrible windstorm

26- The story observes the classical unities of time, place, and action

27- The theme of The Story of an Hour is Oppression

28- The opening sentence of the story foreshadows

29 - Third PersonPoint of View

30- when the narrator tells readers that he is not mad (sane )

31- The story is told in first-person point of view by an unreliable narrator

32- PersonificationDeath in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him and enveloped the victim. [Here, Death is a person.]

33- SimileSo I opened it–you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily–until at length a single dim ray like the thread of thespider shot out from the crevice and fell upon the vulture eye.

34- Mrs. Mallard breaks down,goes upstairs to a room to be alone. There she sits down and gazes out a window

35- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is By Mark Twain

36- Protagonist: Huckleberry Finand Antagonist: Society and Its Rules and Laws

37- Jim: The escaped slave who joins Huck.

38- Widow Douglas: Kindly but straitlaced woman who takes Huck into her home.

39- Huckleberry Finn tells the story in first-person point of view.

40- Themes is Freedom

41- Intuitive Wisdom that comes from the heart

42- Triflesis a Playby Susan Glaspell

43 - Mrs. Hale finds a box containing a piece of silk wrapped around a dead bird

44- Minnie Foster Wright: Wife of John Wright and his accused murderer.

45- Symbols Cage: John Wright's oppression (or immuration) of his wife and her spirit