1. The US achieved its independence in 1783.
2. Phillip Freneau has been called the “Father of American Poetry”
3. In Washington Irving’s Sketch Book appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature. (The only American writer of his generation who could chide the British in an atmosphere of good humor.)
4. A novel about the super nature white whale----Moby Dick.(By Herman Melville).
5. The masterpiece of Jack London(famous for his animal stories and the survival of the fittest)? Martin Eden.
6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was responsible for bringing Transcendentalism to New England. In 1836, he published Nature, the clearest statement of his theories of Transcendentalist ideas.
7. David Thoreau wrote his book Walden in 1854, and his famous essay Civil Disobedience in 1849.
8. Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and O. Henry is the pen name of William Sidney Porter.
9. In which book Mark Twain created a master piece of American realism? The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn.
10. The greatest of American’s realists were Henry James and Mark Twain.
11. Which novel brought Henry James national flame? Daisy Miller
12. The founder of psychological realism? His realism is known as “stream of consciousness” literature. Henry James.
13. President Lincoln once said “so you’re the little woman who made the book that made the great war(civil war).” Harriet Beecher Stowe.(Mrs. Stowe)
14. The leader of the imagist poem---- Ezra Pound
15. What’s the most significant American poem of 20th century: The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot.
16. The Sun Also Rises was written by Ernest Hemingway (the spokesman of the lost generation)
From whom the bell Tolls comes from John Donne’s Meditations.
17. F. Scott. Fitzgerald is the spokesman of the Jazz Age.
18. Robert Frost became nation bard in his 80’s.
19. Light in August and Sound and the Fury are written by William Faulkner.
20. Eugene O’Neill wrote the Hairy Ape, he is the one who made American Drama developed into a form of literature.
21. In 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded a Nobel Prize for his “mastery of the art of modern narration.”
22. John Steinbeck was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s, whose masterpiece was The Grapes of Wrath, a novel about the great “dust bowl” disaster in Oklahoma.