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Chapter 5 American Literature Exercises I. Explain the following in English: 1. The Letherstocking Tales 2. Transcendentalists 3. Walden 4. The Scarlet Letter 5. Moby Dick 6. Leaves of Grass 7. Mark Twain 8. the naturalists 9. The Waste Land 10. the Lost Generation 1 1. the Harlem Renaissance 12. the Beat Generation II. Fill in the blanks: 1. and are the two major writers of the post-Revolutionary period. 2. The Masque of the Red Death and The Fall of the House of Usher were stories written by 3. In 1852, a New England woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a novel titled , which intensified the political debate on slavery. 4 Mark Twains is considered the greatest novel in American literature. 5.Henry James major works include and . His works often described Americans living in 6. Upton Sinclairs novel exposed the horrible lives of meat-packing factory workers. 7. Ezra Pounds poetry is famous for , the use of strong, concrete images. 8. T. S. Eliots long poem revealed a pessimistic view of post-World War I society. He dominated so-called movement in poetry. 9. After World War I, many novelists produced literary works of disillusionment. Some of them lived abroad and were known as the 10. F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel was about youths golden dream turning to disappointment. 11. Name three novels written by Ernest Hemingway: and 12. The Sound and the Fury was written by , whose prose style was experimental. 13. Name two plays written by Eugene ONeill: and 14 John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath was a portrait of a poor family during the period of 15. Richard Wright wrote the novel , and Ralph Ellison wrote the novel . Both were writers. 16. The representative work of the Beat Generation was Alan Ginsbe