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10th American Lit.
Final Exam-Authors
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Edwards | "Sinners in the hands of an Angry God" |
| Francis Hopkinson | "The Battle of the Kegs" |
| Timothy Dwight | "Psalm 137" |
| Billy Sunday | "Nuts for Skeptics to Crack" |
| William Bradford | Of Plymouth Plantation |
| Anne Bradstreet | "The Author to Her Book" |
| Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard's Almanac |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The Deerslayer (America's first novelist) |
| William Cullen Bryant | "Thanatopsis" (America's first great poet of nature) |
| Phyllis Wheatley | "On Being Brought from Africa to America" |
| Noah Webster | "The Definition and Origin of Language" |
| Edward Taylor | "Meditation One" |
| Herman Melville | Author of America's only epic "Moby Dick" |
| Washington Irving | first internationally famous American writer |
| Fanny Crosby | outstanding hymn writer of the 1800's |
| Joel Chandler Harris | author of Uncle Remus stories |
| Lew Wallace | studied the Bible while writing "Ben-Hur" and was saved |
| Edgar Allen Poe | introduced the detective story |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote a novel that was instrumental in bringing about the Civil War |
| Carl Sandburg | "Chicago" |
| Emily Dickinson | "There Is No Frigate Like a Book" |
| Robert Frost | "Birches" |
| Stephen Crane | "The Open Boat" |
| Ray Bradbury | "The Pedestrian" |
| Mark Twain | "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" |
| Thornton Wilder | "The Unerring Instinct" |
| James Weldon Johnson | "Go Down Death-A Funeral Sermon" |
| Walt Whitman | "O Captain! My Captain!" |
| Sara Teasdale | "The Coin" |
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