Survey of American Literature

(Fall 2019)

Exam Review Sheet

 Characteristics of Native American literature.

 The Puritan influences on early American literature
 Difference between “the Puritans” and “the Pilgrims”
 William Bradford, Ann Bradstreet.
 The main foundations of the Age of Enlightenment
 Characteristics of American Enlightenment
 Major figures of American Enlightenment: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas
Jefferson, Thomas Paine.
 Philip Freneau (his two poems we read in class)
 General characteristics of Romanticism
 Characteristics of Transcendentalism
 Ralph Waldo Emerson
 Henry David Thoreau
 The poetry of Walt Whitman
 The Romance and dark Romanticism: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville,
Edgar Alan Poe
 Realism in American fiction: Mark Twain
 Early Arab-American literature: Kahlil Gibran