ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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AMERICAN LITERATURE

ELIZABETHAN ERA

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Having emerg’d from the Poverty and Obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a State of Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World, and having gone so far thro’ Life with a considerable Share of Felicity, the conducing Means I made use of, which, with the Blessing of God, so well succeeded, my Posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own Situations, and therefore fit to be imitated.
A
Fredrick Douglass
B
John Winthrop
C
Benjamin Franklin
D
William Apess
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is concerned with memory. The whole idea of writing your life story is sharing that memory with readers. Franklin’s autobiography is a work of memory, a “recollection.” He shows us how his past made him into the author writing in his present.

Detailed explanation-2: -Over the course of Franklin’s impressive life, he wrote two of the greatest treasures of American literature, Poor Richard’s Almanack and his Memoirs, also called The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

Detailed explanation-3: -Franklin’s writing exemplifies the major style characteristics taught in technical writing: active voice, conciseness, common words, concrete language, sentences structured by clauses rather than phrases.

Detailed explanation-4: -But, though Franklin’s facts are inexact as often as not, we tend to trust his accounts because of another important stylistic characteristic: his objective tone.

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