American Literature Final Exam Study Sheet
Please know who wrote the following works. This will be a matching section.
1. Of Plymouth Plantation
11. "A Book"
2. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
12. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
3. "On Being Brought from Africa to America"
13. White Fang
4. "Rip Van Winkle"
14. "The Gift of the Magi"
5. "The Courtin'"
15. "The Man with the Hoe"
6. "O Captain! My Captain!"
16. "All the Way My Savior Leads Me"
7. "The Raven"
17. "A White Heron"
8. The Scarlet Letter
18. "The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion"
9. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
19. Moby Dick
10. "When the Frost Is on the Punkin'"
20. The Deerslayer
Please know to whom the following information applies. This will be a matching section.
1. First to express the American Dream concept
2. Father of American History
3. First published American poet
4. Foremost American poet of the 17th and 18th centuries
5. Famous today for Poor Richard's Almanac
6. First American black poet
7. Has been labeled the Father of American Literature
8. Father of the short story
9. Father of free verse
10. Father of the detective story
11. Lived isolated in his/her house, dressing only in white
12. Hoosier Poet
13. Convicted embezzler famous for surprise endings
14. Blind hymnist
15. Died in Mexico while fighting for Pancho Villa
16. Poet of the Common People
17. Oyster pirate form San Francisco
18. Journalist who wrote The Red Badge or Courage
19. American author who chose British citizenship when the United States delayed in entering World
War I
20. Born and died when Haley's Comet was in the sky
Please know the definitions of or the application of the following terms. These questions will either be
matching or multiple choice.
1. Classic
10. Hyperbole
2. Poetry
11. Cataloging
3. Satire
12. Alliteration
4. Elegy
13. Consonance
5. Blank verse
14. Simile
6. Apostrophe
15. Metaphor
7. Setting
16. Personification
8. Fable
17. Refrain
9. Assonance
18. Terms since last test
Please know to which characters the following information applies. These questions will either be
matching or multiple choice.
1. Symbolizes "Humanity betrayed"
2. Symbolizes the Old West
3. Symbolizes domesticity and civilization in The American
4. Character information since last test
Please know the following. These questions will probably be multiple choice.
1. Questions since the last test
2. America's first history book
3. Which did Early American literature focus more on? message
4. What did the earliest author write mostly about? adversity
5. Once the colonist had established permanent settlements, what did their subject matter mostly
concern? religion
6. What did Winthrop primarily focus on in his journal? God's providential care for the colonists
7. What belief describes God as a clockwinder?
8. When an author begins several lines with the same word or words, he/she is utilizing what literary
technique? anaphor
9. What overruns heaven, earth, and hell in "Meditation 1.1" by Edward Taylor? love
10. What literary term is a "striking, often elaborate comparison carried out in considerable detail"?
conceit
11. Biographical information on Emily Dickinson
12. Biographical information on Bret Harte
13. What does it take to make a prairie according to Emily Dickinson?
14. To what biblical character does the author allude to in "On Being Brought from Africa to America"?
Cain
15. What is characteristic of Cooper's work? elevation of intuition over education, emphasis on the
common man, glorification of nature, the noble savage, primitivism
16. What is America's greatest pastoral?
17. Who does Lowell address in "A Fable of Critics"? Apollo
18. Who formulated Transcendentalism? Emerson
19. Who came the closest to carrying out the teachings of Transcendentalism? Thoreau
20 What work is the bible of the Transcendentalists? Nature
21. What do the Unitarians believe? leadership of Jesus, salvation by character, fatherhood of God,
brotherhood of man not the depravity of man
22. Irving's purpose for writing- entertainment
23. Main themes of The Deerslayer- initiation, intuition
24. The transcendental optimists- Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman
25. Symbolism in "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"- star-Lincoln, thrush-author, lilac bushthe love people had for Lincoln
26. Cooper's chief writing weakness- wordy dialogue
27. Captain in "O Captain! My Captain!"- Lincoln
28. Flower in "The Birthmark"- transience of life
29. Raven- guilt
30 Birthmark- human nature, mortality
31. Hawthorne's themes- balance of the head and heart, consequences of isolation, effects of hidden
sin, nature of good and evil
32. Characteristics of Hawthorne's writing- allegory, ambiguity, ambivalence, moral introspection,
complexity
33. Dickinson's favorite subject
34. Biblical picture of "A Ballad of Trees and the Master"- Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane
35. Dominant literary form of Realism- novel
36. Examples of onomatopoeia
37. Mr. Dimmidge appears tough but is not- paradox
38. Characteristics of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"- flashback, foreshadowing, situationl irony
39. Author known for veritism- Garland
40. Symbol of freedom and life in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mississippi river
41. Crane's beliefs
42. truthful presentation of life- realism
43. "Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave / To have dominion over sea and land; / To trace the
stars and search the heavens for power; / To feel the passion of Eternity"- biblical allusion
44. What is the outcome of "The Gift of the Magi" an example of? situational irony
45. Poem inspired by a painting- "The Man with the Hoe"
46. O. Henry's real name
47. Greatest treasure in "The Gift of the Magi"
48. Ambrose Bierce's nickname
49. When is the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn set?
50. Fanny Crosby biographical information