American Literature Milly. Review ____was regarded as Father of the American short stories. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel___ Melville’s.

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American Literature Milly

Review ____was regarded as Father of the American short stories. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel___ Melville’s novel___ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale. The way in which ____ wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.

The Romantic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving’s _____and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. A The Sketch Book B Tales of a Traveler C The Alhambra D A history of New York In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stands for ____ A Adultery B Angel C Amiable D all the above ____ was a romanticized account of Melville’s stay among the Polynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville become known as the “man who lived among cannibals”. A Moby Dick B Typee C Omoo D Billy Budd

Questions Washington Irving The Scarlet Letter Moby Dick Nathaniel Hawthorne A D A

Jack London Martin Eden The call of the wild

Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises A Farewell to Arms For whom the bell tolls The old man and the sea

William Faukner A Rose for Emily The sound and the fury