1- Why was the literary tradition of America begins with the tradition of English literature?
Because America was a series of British colonies on the east coast of the present-day United States
2- Did the American literature kept on following the British literary tradition?
No, unique American characteristics and the breadth of its production began to develop an American writing tradition
3- Some consider him to be the first American author, when he wrote The (General Historie of Virginia) ( New England ) and ( The Summer Isles ) 1624
Captain John Smith
4-What did Captain John Smith write?
*the General Historie of Virginia
*New England
*The Summer Isles
5-There were similar writers of interest like John Smith who are they?
*George Percy
*Daniel Denton
*Thomas Ash
*John Lawson
*William Strachey
6- Nicholas Noyes, Edward Taylor and Anne Bradstreet were popular in what?
In American Poetry
7- Doggerel verse was written by?
Nicholas Noyes
8-The Day of Doom, the best-selling poem was written by?
Michael Wiggleworth
9-The religious questions took place as a rich topics for what?
For early writings
10- A journal that discussed the religious foundation of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was written by?
John Winthrop
11- The first widely read American author was?
BenjaminFranklin
12- Witty aphorisms and sound advice written inthe yearly journal [Poor Richards' Almanack] were written by?
Benjamin Franklin
13- Witty aphorisms and sound advice helped shape ideas of what?
What it means to be an American
14-The Legend of Sleepy Hollow] was written by whom]?
Washington Irvin
15- The first American to gain an international literary reputation was?
Washington Irvin
16- The [Leather Stocking Tales] was written by?
James Fenimore Copper
17- What did the [Leather Stocking Tales] capture?
The nation’svast beauty
18- What did Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson break from?
They broke frompoetic tradition
19- What did Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson bring to the nation’s literature?
A sense of individuality
20- Still captivates readers with his unique—anduniquely American—humor and insight who is he?
Mark Twain
21- What did Mark Twain captivate readers with?
Hisunique—and uniquely American—humor and insight
22- The modernists of the 1920s and 1930s produced such talents as whom?
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
23- What did Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy continue to make of American literature?
They continue to make it relevant and exciting
24- American literature and American history both had one thing in common what was it?
they were both short
25- Although American literature was short like American history but has many things to be distinguish with such as?
- glories and shining masterpieces and writers
- gradually gains its unique style, theme and form
- is part ofworld's literature, however, it always has its unique flavor that cannot be easily ignored
26- Most critics hold that history of American literature can be divided into parts, how many parts are there?
Six parts
27- What are those parts in the right order?
1-colonial period
2- romanticism
3- realism
4- naturalism
5- modernism
6-post-modernism
28- American literature did not begin until?
The19th century
29- What does the colonial period represent to American literature?
A preparatory introduction to American literature
30- The definition of American literature is?
The written or literary work produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies
31- What led to a number of key new literary figures to emerge?
The War of 1812 and an increasing desire to produce uniquely American literature and culture
31- Name the new literary figures that emerged after the war of 1812?
Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe
32- Considered the first writer to develop a unique American style and wrote humorous works and satire who is he?
Washington Irving
33- Some of Washington Irving writings on humour and satire are?
[wrote humorous works in [Salmagundi] and the satire [A History of New York
34- Wrote early romantic and nature-inspired poetry, which evolved away from their European origins who is he?
Bryant
35- In 1832, Poe began writing what?
Short stories
36- In 1832, he began writing short storieswho is he?
Poe
37- Poe began writing short stories in 1832, suchas?
[The Masque of the Red Death], [The Pit and the Pendulum], [The Fall of the House of Usher]
and [The Murders inthe Rue Morgue
38- What did Poe's short stories explore?
Explore hidden levels of human psychology and push the boundaries of fiction toward mystery and fantasy
39-What was Cooper's [Leather stocking Tales] About?
[Natty Bumppo [which includes The Lastof the Mohicans
40- Cooper's [Leatherstocking Tales] were popular at?
Both in the new country and abroad
41-Humorous writers included?
Seba Smith) and (Benjamin P.Shillaber) in New England)
Davy Crockett), (Augustus Baldwin Longstreet), (Johnson J. Hooper), (Thomas Bangs Thorpe)
(and (George Washington Harris
42- Humorous writers wrote about?
The American frontier