American Literature! YAY!

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Who wrote Tom Sawyer?

• John Steinbeck• Ernest Hemingway• Mark Twain

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Mark Twain did indeed write Tom Sawyer. He also wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and the Prince and the Pauper

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John Steinbeck wrote: East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row and Tortilla Flats

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Ernest Hemingway wrote: For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, A Farwell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises.

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Which Poet Wrote the Wasteland?

• T.S. Eliot• Ezra Pound• Stephen King

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Stephen King isn’t a poet. He did write a book called The Wasteland, though.

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Ezra Pound, writer of the celebrated Cantos, did not write the Wasteland, but helped with editing.

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T.S. Eliot, also wrote the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and the Four Quartets.

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What did Herman Melville write?

• Bartleby the Scrivener• Moby Dick• Billy Budd

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They’re all right. Herman Melville, popularly regarded as the greatest American writer, authored all three stories.

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Click on the uniquely American literary form.

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Although sequential art and storytelling has been around for a great many years, the collected form of sequential art, also known as a comic book, is a uniquely American invention.

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The origin of the novel is highly debated, but one thing’s for certain: the first novel was not American.

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Poetry is among the oldest art forms known to man. Totally not American.

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