Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism, ” a unique va riation of American literary( ).

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and,especially,its sequence( )proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.

Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular ”.

After the American Civil War,the literary interest in the so- called “reality ” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of( ).

Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the( )theme.

Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?

The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be( )masterpiece,which describes the life journey of an American( )in a European cultural environment.

The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the( )Mississippi valley

Among the following writers( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th - century “stream - of - consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.

considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.