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1. The two major political parties in the US are Republican Party and Democratic
Party.
2. The Americans declared their independence from the colony of Britain in 1776.
3. Religious writings dominated the American literature of the colonial and
Revolutionary.
4. Rip Van Winkle is a short story by Washington Irving. It tells about a man who
has slept for 20 years after the American Revolution.
5. Washington Irving’s sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon; Gent was decognized as a
shape of an American folktale.
6. The literature devices indicated by the underlined parts in “but to his astonishment
a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from rock to rock, and
filling the glen with babbling murmurs” are visual imagery, auditory imagery
and olfactory imagery.
7. In Rip Van Winkle, the men playing ninepins are physically described as bearded
men.
8. At the end of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, George Shelby frees all his slaves. He’s an
active abolitionist.
9. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an American sentimental novel b/c it evokes strong
emotion in the readers. It is the reaction to be abused of slavery.
10. The themes of Uncle Tom’s Cabin are the evil of slavery, incompatibility of
slaves and Christian values.
11. The time and place setting of Uncle Tom’s Cabin is around the early 1850s in
the American South (Kentucky and Louisiana).
12. Mark Twain is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are his two most popular
novels.
13. The setting place of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is fictional town of
St.Petersburg, Missouri.
14. Aunt Polly (the adventures of Tom Sawyer) is very religious b/c she is a
Christian and quotes the Bible almost every time she speaks.
15. Sid (the Adventures of Tom Sawyer) is Tom’s half-brother and Mary is Tom’s
cousin.
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17. The theme of “the Gift of the Magi” is true love is the Greatest gift of all.
18. Jim sells his gold watch to buy his wife as a set of fortoise combs b/c it is suitable
to her beautiful hair and the set of combs that Della had worshipped long.
19. The Magi were the so-called three wise men from the east who travelled to
Bethlehem following a bright star to present gift to the infant Jesus.
20. Della’s traits of personality are thrifty, emotional, caring, selfless and devoted.
They are indirectly characterized b/c we know these characteristics through her
action, what she does and what she says.
21. By the mid-19th century, the new goal for American poetry was to create
something very different from British poetry.
22. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are innovative poets.
23. The main idea of On Journeys Through the States is the expansion and creation
of the US, from a nationalist and transcendentalist point of view and people
here is closely relating to the union of the states with human union, saying
that’s the way to improve.
24. Alaska is a State of American. It is located North of America.
25. The west of the US was conquered chiefly during 1900s.
26. Just as books are devided into chapters, plays are divided into scenes.
27. The native American Myths that survive describe the beginnings of the universe
and the world and of the origin of humankind.
28. Exploration Narratives (during the 1500s) were written by first explorers who
recorded impressions of American.
29. Expressions of American romanticism are legendary, natural, historical,
sentimental.
30. In chapter III (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), Sid is presented as the goody –
goody getting Tom into trouble
31. Aunt Polly (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) generally fails in her attemps to keep
Tom under control b/c, although she worries about Tom’s safety, she seems to
fear constraining him to much.
32. O.Henry’s characters mostly are creating magical, farytale events on his story.
33. The Gift of the Magi begins on Christmas Eve. This aspect of setting is so
important to the story b/c Christmas Eve is an accasion for American couples
to give gifts to each other and it’s also custom so thet must do something for
each people.
34. O.Henry emphasizes the beauty and value of Della’s hair by mentioning the
allution about the queen of Sheba.
35. The two goals of the 19th century American poetry are to complete in quality
intelligence, and breadth with British poetry and to create sthing
very…………
36. The 19th century Fireside Poetrys earned their nickname b/c they frequently used
the hearth as an image of comfort and unity, a pace where families gathered
to learn and tell stories.
37. According to Emily Dickinson (In Could I but ride indefinite) a mid – 19th century
American man could do homework without work.
38. Along with Whitman, Emily Dickinson is one of innovative poets who led the
way of creating sthing very………….
39. In Could I but ride indefinite the medow bee, buttercups, captives, dungeons refer
to women resoectively
40. American drama after the Civil War was marked by greater realism.
41. Realism, naturalism and regionalism were still viable modes of expression.
42. Modernism emerged in Europe and the US in the early years of the 20th century.
43. The writings of Experimental Writers were noted for their innovations in
narrative style.
44. By 1990s, America’s literary traditions fully matured.
45. Ernest Miller Hemingway was rewarded the Nobel Prize for his mastery of the art
of narrative.
46. The climax of the Old Man and the Sea is Santiago nearly passes out from
exhaustion but gathers enough strength to harpoon the marlin through the
heart.
47. In the Old man and the sea, the result of the old man of the oldman’s struggle with
the sharks is the marlin is eaten by sharks leaving a skeleton, the old man
exhausted.
48. In the Old man and the sea, after the old man’s catching the marlin, mandolin
determines to go fishing with him again b/c Manolin likes the old man, sees him
as a hero, a great fisherman.
49. A fiction is a literary work whose content is producted by the imagination and is
not bases on facts.
50. In “The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes” (Rip Van…..) the
literary techniques used for the underlined are imageries b/c there are description
of language that appears to the sense of sthing.
51. In the Adventure……., Huck is adopted and civilized by widow Douglas.
52. A theme of Rip…. Is change with continuity and preservation of Traditional
which means based on the tradition.
53. The goal of second half of the 19th century American poetry was to
create………….
54. Modernism expressed modern life through art as a shark break from the past,
as well as from civilization’s classical tradition.
55. In the Old….., Marlin symbolizes ambition.
56. The US of American looks out the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean.
57. The capital of the US is named after the first president Washington George.
58. The literary from that dominated the colonial and pre-revolutionary period is
religious writing.
59. From the beginning until well into the 19th century, poetry written in the America
was simply an imitation of the British poetry in style.
60. American fiction became established only after the American Revolution.
61. Rip…. Is based on history.
62. Rip……is a short story of American romanticism b/c it is a legend, bases on
history and super natural elements.
63. In the excerpt,…
64. The theme of Rip …is change with continuity and preservation of tradition.
65. Uncle Tom’s cabin, Ophelia is Augustine St.Clause’s Cousin.
66. One of the rising actions of the Adventures of …..is Tom and Huck’s witness the
murder of Dr.Robinson.
67. Uncle Tom’s….. had a profound effect on attitudes towards slavery in the US.
68. Sambo and Quimbo are oversees of Legree’s plannation.
69. The Major conflict of Uncle…..is between master and slave.
70. Aunt Polly wonders when Tom says he has done all the job of painting the fence
b/c Tom seldom put his mind to any job.
71. In the…
72. In Could I but….., the poet wishes she could be free.
73. The characteristics of American modernism are anti-romantic, searching for
new form. Breaking with past deliberately.
74. The present president of the US belongs to the Democractic Party.
75. The early immigrants to the US settled in the North part of the country.
76. Does it stink like rotten meat? Is an example of simile.
77. Love is blind is an example of personification.
78. Much of the India literature was destroyed by the White when they came.
79. The 18th century Poitical writings playes major roles in the American Revolution.
80. American fiction became established only after American Revolution.
81. In Rip ….., the men play ninepins are Hendrick Hudson and his crew.
82. The literature devices…
83. Washington Irving had a special talent for creating a magical, fairytale quality
in his tales – notably “RVL” and “the Legend of sleepy hollow” and thus help
shape the American folklore.
84. We can learn about slaves’ life from the excerpt Martyr (Uncle…) that slaves can
be sold anytime, anywhere, can’t control their life, can’t decide their own fate,
their life belongs to the master. Slavery is miserable.
85. O.Henry’s characters mostly are the rich and the poor, including working –
class, the young and the old, the best and the worst humanity.
86. The full title of Uncle…..is Uncle Tom’s Cabin or life among the lowly.
87. One of foreshadowings in Uncle…is Eva’s death./
88. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a work of Mark Twain.
89. In the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, judge Thacher looks …..MCDougal’s Cave b/c
Injun Joe is using the cave as a hidcout.
90. In the Adventures of Tom…, Huck is adopted and civilized by Widow Douglas
b/c he saved Huck’s life but Huck attempts to run away from civilized life.
91. Tom feels happy and ecstatic when Sid breaks the bow b/c Sid often gets him
into trouble.
92. The literacy devices of balmy summer air, the restful quite, the odor of the flowers
and the drosing murmur of the bees, are imageries.
93. The major distinction between englishtement and romanticism is that
Romanticism stress emotion whereas Englishtement emphasizes on the real.
94. Other forms of American realism are regionalism and naturalism.
95. “the gift of the magi” is one of O.Henry’s most famous stories. Included in the
Four million, his first story of short stories, in 1960, it has been published many
times since then.
96. The place setting of the Gift of the Magi is Della and Jim’s fat, the hair shop, in
New York.
97. Mne.Sofrinie, the hair buyer, is “large, too white, chilly, hardly looked the
“Sofronie”. The type of characterization that the writer uses to describe
Mne.Sofronie’s character is direct characterization.
98. E.Hemingway is part a group of American expatriate writers in Paris.
99. The Fireside poets are said to first put American poetry on an equal footing with
british poetry.
100. In could I but,…. “polic”, ‘bar” refer to the American laws of the middle
19th century.
101. After the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, many Europeans
moved to new continent to make their fortunes and to practice their religious
faith.
102. A subtype of folktales is fable which features supernatural elements, such
as spirits, talking animals, and magic.
103. Take the book back is an example of consonance.
104. After the Independence Revolution, American people were urgently
building nationhood in their literature.
105. The goal of Washington Irving’s The sketch book of Geoffrey was to give
the US a feeling of tradition.
106. The magical, fairytale quality in Rip ….refers to Rip’s sleep of 20 years.
107. Despite all the changes Rip was sure the village was his b/c from the
village he still saw the Catskill mountains and the silver Hudson at a distance.
108. The literary technique of the underlined in “a troop of strange children ran
at his gray beard” (After the sleep) is onomatopoeia.
109. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is novel of social protest b/c it is against the 1850
passage of the second Fugitive slave Act/it is anti-slavery.
110. The author of Uncle….presents 3 types of slave masters (the Shelbys, the
Augustines, Legree) to show that no matter how kind a master might be,
slaves’s life is miserable. They cannot decide their own life, are regarded as a
kind of goods which can be sold anytime, anywhere.
111. The common fate of the slaves in Uncle….is that they are regarded as a
kind of goods which can be sold anytime, anywhere.
112. Uncle Tom is unconquerable, as shown in the fact he is determined not
tell Legree where Cassy and Emmeline are hiding though he knows he might
be killed
113. The two forms of American realism are regionalism and naturalism
114. The Adventures of Tom….is a children’s book b/c its main character is a
youngboy and it features adventure.
115. The Adventures…aims to satirize the hypocricy and small mindedness
of some local authorities.
116. Tom Sawyer is fond of Huck b/c he has a lot of freedom.
117. Della and Jim sell their only treasures to buy each other valuable gifts b/c
they want to give each other valuable gifts.
118. O.Henry is the pen name of William Sydney Porter
119. The figurative meaning of “oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy
wings” is the next 2 hours with the money she was happily walking to look for
a valuable gift for Jim.
120. Della and Jim’s Gifts are both wonderful and terrible b/c they are both
spiritually and materially valuable but are useless.
121. Tha antagonist of “The gift of the magi” is….b/c the couple’s poverty
122. Innovative American Poetry aimed to create truly American literature/
create poetry different from the Bristish.
123. On the Journeys Thr…..is poetry b/c its words are arranged in metrical
patterns.
124. The speaker of On Journeys….is American people b/c they directly talk
to the reader.
125. By Journeys the speaker metaphorically means existence.
126. The lesson American people learn from the seasons is giving out as much
as possible without asking anything in return.
127. “Could I but ride…….meadow-bee” means I wish I could be able to
travel anywhere I liked like a meadow-bee.
128. Mid 19th century American women were not allowed to travel anywhere
they liked, visit; marry the person they loved; run away from the person they
did not love any more.
129. Could I but…..is a lyrical poem b/c it expresses personal thoughts and
feelings.
130. The old man’s determination is shown in the fact that on the 85th day he
decides to go by himself beyond the usual fishing ground into the gulf; not to
let the fish go although he knows he might be killed.
131. “Santiago nearly passes out from ….through the heart” is climax of the Old
man….b/c it is the point of greatest interest.
132. Manolin is forced by his parents to fish with another fisherman b/c the old
man has been so unlucky, not catching any fish for 84 running days.
133. “don’t jump, fish, he said” is an apostrophe b/c he talks to the fish as if to
a human.