pt1 conti........... Flashcards
Alonzo and Melissa set during :
a) Civil war
b) Revolutionary war
c) Vietnam War
d) Mexico War
b) revolutionary war
The theme of Goethe’s “ The Sorrows of Young Werther” is ………….
a) Death
b) Adulterous love
c) Wealth
d) Pain
b) adulterous love
In Brown's novel “ The Power of Sympathy ”, the character of Harrington is described as … … … … . a. a strange medley of contradiction b. the moralist c. the amoroso d. all of the above
d) all of the above
“The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania” was written by … … … … … ..
a. Peter Markoe
b. Shakespeare
c. John Donne
d. Wollstonecraft
a) peter markowe
Thomas Paine wrote three best-selling books of the 18th century including …………….
a. Common Sense
b. The Right of Man
c. The Right of Man
d. all of the above
d) all of the above
Paine’s “The Right of Man” was published in ………. Part/s.
a) one
b) two
c) three
d) four
d) two
When describing himself as “a citizen of both countries”, Paine
meant ……………….
a) Britain and Italy
b)The United States and the French republic
c) The French republic and Britain
d) Britain and Spain
b) the united states and the french republic
Paine projected him self as a spokesperson for …………rational order.
a) Old World
b) Ancient World
c) New World
d) Backward World
c) New World
Irish Murdoch wrote “The Nice and the Good”
true
early american literature means american literature after 1800
false ( before )
early american literature almost prided itself on being a scholarly world apart
true
scott fitzgerald wrote ‘‘the great Gatsby’’
true
early american literature has always been read historically
true
political marketing involves extreme sloganeering
true
most of the poets celebrated as ‘‘early american’’ writers were born in america
false (England)
the american literature didn’t affect the English literature
false (affected)
in the 17th century, the English literature had a great impact upon its american counterpart
true
in the 17th century all the american settlements were colonies of the french crown
false (British)
Edward watts and others have done important pioneering works
true
the power plays in the 17th century north america were completed in nature
true
'’the inclusion of a journal’’ is written by cabeza de vaca
true
cabeza de vaca talks about spanish tribes
false (Indian)
cabeza de vaca exemplifies a puritan style
false (catholic)
Cabeza de Vaca’s geographical scope focused around the
borderlands with Mexico
true
The language and culture of first people have recently received
more consideration
true
America was invented by Christopher Columbus
false (discovered)
Rowlandson’s “ Narrative” has become popular in moments of
national crisis
true
Rowlandson was probably born in America
false (England)
“ Narrative” was successful in both England and America
true
The first 3 editions of “ Narrative” were released in America
true
There are no similarities between Rowlandson’s “ Narrative” and
Richardson’s “ Pamela”
false
Rowlandson’s works are translated across the Atlantic
true
The conservative English satire was turned back on itself through “ double-coding”.
true
The work of Charles Brown might be understood as transatlantic romanticism .
true
“Concerning Hum an Understanding” allows hum an intelligence to produce on the basis of knowledge of truth.
false (empirical evidence)
The ideas of divine revelation and philosophical absolutes were
coming to seem increasingly new-fashioned
false (old-fashioned)
18th century American literature shared many of the
characteristics of its English counterpart.
true
American writers never became part of the world of mutability
they were describing
false
18th century writers looked back at the Bible for their source
material
false (Virgil)
The idea of American literature deriving from classical templates
is irrelevant.
false (relevant)
The classical idiom of American literature is from the 19th century
false (18th)
18th-century America offered a modernized version of courtly
ritual.
true
Shakespeare wrote “ History of the Ancient and Honorable
Tuesday Club”.
false (Alexander Hamilton)
Alexander Hamilton produced a general burlesque on John
Milton’s “ Theory of State Power”
false (Thomas hobbe’s)
Christopher Marlowe wrote “ Itinerarium ”.
false (Alexander Hamilton)
Shield described the colonies of British America as “ transmutable regions of exchange values”.
true
Aesthetics shouldn’t serve political and social purposes.
false (should)
Wealthy’s language included words like “black”, “ slave”, and
“female”
true
Wealthy is one of the British neoclassical poets of the 18th
century .
false (American)
Wealthy and American poets of the 18th century understood
literary genre as a system to be parodied and upended
true
Wealthy wrote the poem “ To the University of Cambridge”
true
“ The Anarchiad” is a poem written “ in concert” by Trumbull.
true
The Anarchiad” is subtitled “A New England poem “
true
Parrington called the Connecticut Wits” the first school of poetry
in America”.
true
In early American literature, more space is devoted to prose than
to poetry .
true
