Test 2 American Literature Flashcards
Introduced the detective story
Edgar Allen Poe
Used the surprise ending
O Henry
Wrote the town poor
Sarah Oren Jewett
A correspondent who wrote about his shipwreck in the “open boat”
Stephen Crane
Well-known novelist and playwright who wrote “The Unerring Instinct”
Thornton Wilder
First American short story writer
Washington Irving
What is the ridicule of human folly with the purpose of correcting it
Satire.
What is the attitude of the narrator toward his subject or audience
Tone ( mood)
What is the perspective from which a story is told?
Point of view
In “the Open Boat” who ironically dies at the end?
the oiler (Billie)
What author had the pen name O. Henry
William Sidney Porter
A husband and wife take precautions against a storm
Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning
A man sleeps for twenty years
Rip van winkle
A woman plays a practical joke on a sister in law
The Unerring Instinct
Rats chew off a prisoners ropes
The Pit and the Pendulum
