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1. Captain John Smith became the first American writer. 2. The
puritans
looked
upon
themselves as a chosen people.
3. Poor Richard’s Almanac is an annual collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin.
4. Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet
Common Sense boldly advocated a
“Declaration for Independence”.
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5. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger
Sherman,
and
Robert
Livingston.
6. Philip Freneau has been called the “Father of American Poetry”.
7. In Washington Irving’s Sketch Book appeared the first modern
short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.
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8. Cooper’s enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five novels that comprise the
Leatherstocking tales.
9. “To a Waterfowl” is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant’s wok.
Edgar Allan Poe is considered “father of American detective stories
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and American gothic
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stories”.
10. Emerson believed above all in individualism, independence of mind, and self-reliance.
11. Hawthorne’s stories touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature.
12. Moby Dick is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.
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13. After his death, Longfellow became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.
14. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, had become an American institution and the most famous literary woman in the world.
15. The naturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and women had no free will, that their
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美国文学史与及选读期末复习题
