美国文学赏析复习范围

Please don’t tick; Mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. (不要打对勾，要用铅笔或黑色水笔涂黑) 例如：1.[A][B][C][D]2.[A][B][C][D]3.[A][B][C][D]4.[A][B][C][D]5.[A][B][C][D] 1.连线题Group 1 作家作品连线Column A Column B( ) 1. T. S. Eliot a. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ( ) 2. Wallace Stevens b. Sister Carrie( ) 3. Theodore Dreiser c.The Oversoul( ) 4. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Anecdote of the Jar( ) 5. Robert Frost e. The Waste LandGroup 2 作品中人物和作品连线Column A Column B( ) 1. Benjy a. Sister Carrie( ) 2. George Hurstwood b. The Sound and the Fury( ) 3. Emily c. Mrs Warren’s Profession( ) 4. Vivie d. A Rose for Emily( ) 5. Jim e. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn “God help men that help themselves” is found in ________ work.A.PaineB. FranklinC. FreneauD. JeffersonFrom 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous _____, an annal(年表、编年史) collection of proverbs.（谚语）A.The AutobiographyB. Poor Richard’s AlmanacC. Common Sense D .The General Magazine______ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A.Henry David ThoreauB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Nathanial HawthorneD. Walt WhitmanTranscendentalists（超验主义者）recognized ________ as the “highest power of the soul”.A. IntuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. thinkingThe common thread throughout American literature has an emphasis on the ________.A.RevolutionB. ReasonC. IndividualismD. RationalismThe publication of ________ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-relianceC.The American ScholarD. The Over-soulThere is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually ______ on the Puritan soil.A. RomanticismB. Puritanism （清教主义）C. Mysticism （神秘主义）D. Unitarianism （实用主义）In the history of literature, Romanticism is regarded as _______.A.the thought that designates（标出、定名为）a literary and philosophical theory which tends tosee the individual as the very center of all life and all experience.B.The thought that designates man as a social animalC.The orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in commonD.The modes of thinkingMark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ______ language.A.GrandB. pompousC. simpleD. vernacularMark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _______. A. international theme B. waste-land imageryC. local colorD. symbolismThe Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to as ______.A.the golden ageB. the silver ageC.the gilded ageD. the roaring ageThe impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American _________.A. modernismB. NaturalismC. VernacularismD. local colorismWhich of the following figures does not belong to “The Lost Generation”?A. Ezra PoundB. William Carlos WilliamsC. Robert FrostD. Theodore DreiserThe following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except ______.A. William FaulknerB. F. Scott. FitzgeraldC. John SteinbeckD. Ernest HemingwayWho, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”?A. J. D. SalingerB. Ezra PoundC. Richard WrightD. Ralph EllisonTheodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of American’s ____________.A. naturalistsB. realistsC. modernistsD. romanticistsThe book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to _____.A. The Great GatsbyB. The Sun Also RisesC. The Adventure of Huckleberry FinnD. Moby DickThe American “Thirties”, lasted from the Crash(股市崩盘), through the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak (开始) of the Second World War in 1939. This was a period of ______.A. povertyB. important social movementsC. a new social consciousness （意识）D. all of the above“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _________.A.T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD.E. E. CummingsEarly in the 20th century, _______ published works that would change the nature of American poetry.A. Ezra PoundB. T. S. EliotC. Robert FrostD. Both A and BThe imagist writers followed three principles; they respectively are direct treatment, economy of expression and ____________.A. clear rhythmB. blank verseC. free verseD. heroic couplet“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both…” In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to __________.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. on e’s course of lifeIn Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called ________ in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.A. stream of consciousnessB. imagismC. symbolismD. naturalismYoknapatawpha county is an imagery land invented by _________.A. William FaulknerB. Thomas HardyC. BalzacD. Theodore Dreiser_______ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying (衰败的) upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous(厚颜无耻的)class of the “poor Whites”; and the Negroes who labored for both of them.A. FaulknerB. FitzgeraldC. HemmingwayD. SteinbeckPassage 1Whose woods these are I think I know,His house is in the village though.He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.…The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep.And miles to go before I sleep.Questions:1. Who is the Author of this poem? Robert Frost2. What does “sleep” refer to? deathPassage 2A Red, Red RoseO my lu ve’s(love) like a red, red rose,That’s newly sprung in June;O my luve’s like the melodie (悦耳的音乐)That’s sweetly play’d in tune.The Sick RoseRose, thou art (古英语，相当于you are) sick!The invisible (无形的、看不见的) wormThat flies in the night,In the howling storm,Has found out thy bedOf crimson (深红色的、绯红色) joyAnd his dark secret loveDoes the life destroy.Questions:1. What does the ROSE stand for in both poems? love2. In the second poem, why is the rose sick? Because of invisible worm3. Compare the image of rose in these two poems. 大家自己写自己的感想Passage 3Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe(快乐的) air, and uplifted into infinite (无限的) space,—all mean egotism (自私自利、自我中心) vanishes (消失). I become a transparent (透明的) eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate (循环) through me; I am part and particle of God.”Questions:1. Who wrote this passage? R. W. Emerson2. Which book does this quoted passage come from? Nature3. Can you retell the main idea of this passage in your own word? Oneness/harmony between human and nature1.Who is your favorite American writer? What is his/her masterwork? Why do you likehim/her? ( The writers and the works are not confined to (局限于) those we have mentioned in class.) (15 points)2.What is the relationship between wars and American literature? (U.S. has gone throughthe Independence War, the civil war, WWI, WWII, and the anti-terrorist war, you can choose one particular period to analyze or interpret it from a bird’s view.) (15 points)3.What have you leaned from this elective（选修课）this term? And do you have anysuggestions for this class? (10 points)你最喜欢哪一位美国作家？他（她）的代表作品是什么？为什么喜欢？简述美国文学和战争的关系。