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I.Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer
among the four items. (10 x 1’= 10’)
1.In American literature, the 18th century was the
age of Enlightenment. ____ was the dominant.
2.The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
is taken from Irving’s work named ____.
3.Which of the following is not the characteristic
of American Romanticism
4.The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the __
attitude of its author.
5.Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is
characterized by ___.
6.Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest
literary advocates in ___ and Thoreau.
7.Which is regarded as the “Declaration of
Intellectual Independence”
8.____ is considered Mark Twain’s greatest
achievement.
9.___ is not among those greatest figures in “Lost
Generation”.
10.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the
author’s tone in writing becomes less serious
and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ___.
II.
among the four items. (10 x 1’= 10’)
11.______ is the father of American Literature.
12._____ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow
stepped outside the main stream of life.
13._____ was the most leading spirit of the
Transcendental Club.
14.Which of following is NOT a typical feature of
Mark Twain’s language
From Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, _____ which states his belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.
A. Walden
B. Nature
C. Civil Disobedience
D. Common Sense
16.Which is regarded as the “Declaration of
Intellectual Independence”
17.Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.
18.What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s
19.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the
author’s tone in writing becomes less serious
and less sympathetic but more ironic and more
____.
20.For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____,
the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an
ultimate mystery of the universe.
II. Identify Works as Described Below (1’×15
=15’):
1.The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells
his own story but whose name in unknown to us.
a.Native Son
b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin
c.Invisible
Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains
2.The main conflict of the play is the
protagonist’s false value of fine appearance and popularity with people and the cruel reality of the society in which money is everything.
a.A Street Car Named Desire
b. The Hairy Ape
c.Long Day’s Journey into Night
d. Death of
Salesman
3.It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the
play is based on the playwright himself.
a. Long Day’s Journey into Night
b. Henderson
the Rain King
c. The Hairy Ape
d. The Glass
Menageries
4.The novel tells of how a black man kills a white
woman by accident and how the society is
responsible for the murder.
a.Native Son
b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin
c.Invisible
Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains
5._________ is one of the best works in American
literature about the Second World War.
a.A Farewell to Arms
b.The Catcher in the Rye
c.The Red Badge of Courage
d. The Naked and the
Dead
6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.
a.A Farewell to Arms
b.The Sun Also Rises
c.The Old Man and the Sea
d. The Naked and the Dead
7.The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot
survive in Oklahoma and travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in
California.
a.The Grapes of Wrath
b. U.S. A.
c.Babbitt
d. The Adventures of Augie
March
8.It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919,
and The Big Money, with such techniques as
biographies, newsreels and camera eye.
9.It is a novel which uses the stream of
consciousness technique and whose title is taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
a. Absolom, Absolom!
b. The Sound and the
Fury
c.A Farewell to Arms
d. The Great Gatsby
10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country
girl is seduced and how she becomes a famous
actress and how her lover falls into a beggar
and finally commits suicide.
a.An American Tragedy
b. Sister Carrie
c. McTeague
d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
11. The novel is set on the Mississippi with the
protagonist telling us the story in the local
dialect. It is a representative work of local
colorism.
a.Sister Carrie
b.The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
c. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
d.The
Portrait of a Lady
12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier
(Henry Fleming)’s reactions in the Civil War.
a.An American Tragedy
b. Sister Carrie
c.The Red Badge of Courage
d. McTeague
13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos
with the theme of the universality and equality in value of all people and all things.
a.Cantos
b. The Raven
c. Song of Myself
d.Chicago
14. The novel is about how a group of people on a
whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves
are killed by the whale, with the conflict
between man and his fate.
a.The Octopus
b. Moby-Dick
c. The Rise of Silas Lapham
d. Leaves of Grass
15. It is a philosophical essay in 8 chapters plus
an introduction mainly concerned with the four
uses of nature.
a. Walden
b. Nature
c. The Scarlet Letter
d. The American Scholar
I.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1’×15=15’):
1.An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and
arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____________.
a. The Pilgrims
b. Mayflower
c. America
d. Titanic
2._________ is father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays.
a. Tennessee Williams
b. Eugene O’Neill
c. Arthur Miller
d. Elmer Rice
3._________ was the first American writer to write entirely American literature.
a. Anne Bradstreet
b. Washington Irving
c. Mark Twain
d. Ernest Hemingway
4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.
a. Benjamin Franklin
b. Washington Irving
c. Ralph Waldo Emerson
d. Henry David
Thoreau
5._______was the greatest woman poet in American
literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric
poems in her life time.
a. Pearl S. Buck
b.Harriet Bicher Stowe
c. Emily Dickenson
d. Walter Whitman
6._________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.
a. Washington Irving
b. Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. Walt Whitman
d. Edgar Allan Poe
7.William Dean Howells is concerned with the middle class life; ______ writes about the upper class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.
a. Stephen Crane
b. Frank Norris
c. Theodore Dreiser
d. Henry James
8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer
a. William Dean Howells
b. Mark Twain
c. Ernest Hemingway
d.Theodore Dreiser
9. His writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts. He is______.
a. Ernest Hemingway
b. William Faulkner
c. F. Scott Fitzgerald
d. Mark Twain
10. He wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town,
Yoknapatwapha County in the deep south. He is
______.
a. William Faulkner
b. John Steinbeck
c. Ernest Hemingway
d. Mark Twain
11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his
novels the American Jews are major characters.
a. Sinclair Lewis
b. Saul Bellow
c. Norman Mailer
d. Jerome David Salinger
12._________ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.
a. Anne Bradstreet
b. Robert Frost
c. H.D.
d. Emily Dickinson
13.________ is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.
a. John Steinbeck
b. William Faulkner
c. Eugene O’Neill
d. Arthur Miller
14. He was the first black American to write a book
about black life with great impact on the
consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece
is one of the three classics about black
Americans. Who is he
a.Richard Wright
b. Harriet Beecher Stowe
c.
Langston Hughes d. Ralph Ellison
15. Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in
Europe whereas ________ wrote about the Jazz age, life in American society.
a.William Carlos Williams
b. William Faulkner
c.
John Steinbeck d. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1×15 %):
2.The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South states, which are known respectively as the ______and
the______.
a. N, S
b. Revolutionaries, Reactionaries
c. Union, Confederacy
d. Slavery, Anti-Slavery
2._____________was praised by the British as the “Tenth Muse in America”.
a.Anne Bradstreet
b. Edward Taylor
c. Thomas Paine
d. Philip Freneau
3.Mark Twain was a representative of ________ in American literature.
a. transcendentalism
b. naturalism
c. local colorism
d. imagism
4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.
a. Benjamin Franklin
b. Washington Irving
c. Ralph Waldo Emerson
d. Henry David
Thoreau
5.The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is ____________.
a. Washington Irving
b.Ezra Pound
c. Walt Whitman
d. Emily Dickinson
6._________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.
a. Washington Irving
b. Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. Walt Whitman
d. Edgar Allan Poe
7.Henry James is concerned with the upper class life; ______ writes about the middle class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.
a. Stephen Crane
b. Frank Norris
c. Theodore Dreiser
d. William Dean Howells
8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer
a. William Dean Howells
b. Mark Twain
c. Ernest Hemingway
d.Theodore Dreiser
9. ________’s writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts.
a. Ernest Hemingway
b. William Faulkner
c. F. Scott Fitzgerald
d. Mark Twain
10. ______ wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson
Town, Yoknapatwapha County in the deep south. .
a. William Faulkner
b. John Steinbeck
c. Ernest Hemingway
d. Mark Twain
11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his
novels the American Jews are major characters.
a. Sinclair Lewis
b. Saul Bellow
c. Norman Mailer
d. Jerome David Salinger
12._________ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.
a. Anne Bradstreet
b. Robert Frost
c. H.D.
d. Emily Dickinson
13.________ is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.
a. John Steinbeck
b. William Faulkner
c. Eugene O’Neill
d. Arthur Miller
14. _______ was the first black American to write a
book about black life with great impact on the
consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece
is one of the three classics about black
Americans.
b.Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowe
c. Langston Hughes
d. Ralph Ellison
15. ________ first used the “Jazz age” as the
title of a collection of short stories
a. F. Scott Fitzgerald
b. William Faulkner
c.
John Steinbeck d. Ernest Hemingway
II. Identify Works as Described Below (1×15 %):
6.The play is about a stoker whose identity as a
human being is not recognized by his fellow human beings and who tries to find affinity with a
monkey in the zoo and is finally killed by the animal.
a. The Hairy Ape
b. Henderson
the Rain King
c. Long Day’s Journey into Night
d. The
Glass Menageries
7.The protagonist in this play is a crippled girl
named Amanda.
a.A Street Car Named Desire
b. The Hairy Ape
c.Long Day’s Journey into Night
d.The Glass Menageries
8.The hero of this novel tells about his own story
to us but his name is unknown.
a.Native Son
b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin
c.Invisible Man
d. Go Tell It on the Mountains
4. It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.
a. Long Day’s Journey into Night
b. Henderson
the Rain King
c. The Hairy Ape
d. The Glass
Menageries
5.The novel tells of how a black man kills a white
woman by accident and how he is finally arrested and tried and sentenced to death.
a.Native Son
b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin
c.Invisible
Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains
6._________ is one of the best works in American
literature about the Second World War.
a.A Farewell to Arms
b.The Catcher in the Rye
c.The Red Badge of Courage
d. The Naked and the Dead
6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.
a.A Farewell to Arms
b.The Sun Also Rises
c.The Old Man and the Sea
d. The Naked and the Dead
10.The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot
survive in Oklahoma and travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in
California.
b.The Grapes of Wrath b. U.S. A.
c.Babbitt
d. The Adventures of Augie
March
Part I The Literature of Colonial America I．Historical Introduction The colonial period stretched roughly from the settlement of America in the early 17th century through the end of the 18th. The first permanent settlement in America was established by English in 1607. ( A group of people was sent by the English King James I to hunt for gold. They arrived at Virginia in 1607. They named the James River and build the James town.) II．The pre-revolutionary writing in the colonies was essentially of two kinds: 1) Practical matter-of-fact accounts of farming, hunting, travel, etc. designed to inform people "at home" what life was like in the new world, and, often, to induce their immigration 2) Highly theoretical, generally polemical, discussions of religious questions. III．The First American Writer The first writings that we call American were the narratives and journals of these settlements. They wrote about their voyage to the new land, their lives in the new land, their dealings with Indians. Captain John Smith is the first American writer. A True Relation of such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia Since the First Planting of That Colony (1608) A Map of Virginia: A Description of the Country (1612) General History of Virgini a (1624): the Indian princess Pocahontas Captain John Smith was one of the first early 17th-century British settlers in North America. He was one of the founders of the colony of Jamestown, Virginia. His writings about North America became the source of information about the New World for later settlers. One of the things he wrote about that has become an American legend was his capture by the Indians and his rescue by the famous Indian Princess, Pocahontas. IV．Early New England Literature William Bradford and John Winthrop John Cotton and Roger Williams Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor V．Puritan Thoughts 1. The origin of puritan In the mediaeval Europe, there was widespread religious revolution. In the 16th Century, the English King Henry VIII (At that time, the Catholics were not allowed to divorce unless they have the Pope's permission. Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife because she couldn't bear him a son. But the Pope didn't allow him to divorce, so he) broke away from the Roman Catholic Church & established the Church of
美国文学史及选读试卷 Ⅰ.Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (60points in all, 2 for each) 1. Which of following can be said of the common features which are shared by the English and American Romanticists ? A. An increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions. B. An increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters. C. An increasing emphasis on the desire to return to nature. D. both A and B. 2. Which of the following statements about the Romantic period in the history of American literature is NOT true? （） A. In most of the American writings of this period there was a new emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature. B. The writers of this period placed an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions and displayed an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters. C. There was a strong tendency to exalt the individual and the common man. D. Most heroes and heroines in the writings of this period exhibited extremes of reason and nationality. 3.______ is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the American Romanticism in the history of American literature. A. New England Transcendentalism B. England Transcendentalism C. the Harlem Renaissance D. New Transcendentalism 4.Hawthorn e’s unique gift was for the creation of ______ which touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature. A. symbolic stories B. romantic stories
ⅠColonial America(17th century)殖民主义时期文学 1.In 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered America and he mistook the native people on the new continent for Indians. Character of colonial literature: a.content: religious, political b.form: diary, journal, letters, travel books, sermons, history (personal literature) c.Style: simple. direct, concise d.out of humble origins Early in the 17th century, the English settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history. The earliest settlers in America included Dutch, Swedes, Germans, French, Spaniards, Italians and Portuguese. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607(北美弗吉尼亚詹姆斯顿) 2.Captain Town Smith, the first American writer 3.Puritan Thoughts: hard work, thrift(节俭), piety(虔诚), sobriety(节制), 这些也成了早期 美国作品主导思想. 典型的清教徒：John Cotton & Roger William, John Cotton was called “the Patriarch of New England(新英格兰教父)” 清教徒采用的文学体裁：narratives(日记) and journals(游记) 清教徒在美国的写作内容： 1）Their voyage to the new land 2）Adapting themselves to unfamiliar climates and crops 3）About dealing with Indians 4）Guide to the new land, endless bounty, invitation to bold spirit 4.Private literature: theological, moral, historical, political 5.The work of two writers, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, rose to the level of real poetry. Anne Bradstreet is one of the most interesting of the early poets, 英国最早移民到美国的诗人. The best of the Puritan poets was Edward Taylor. ⅡReason and Revolution(18th century)理性和革命时期文学 1.The War for Independence (1776-1783) ended in the formation of a Federative bourgeois democratic republic - the United States of America. 2.Bourgeois Enlightenment 3.Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard’s Almanac(穷人理查德的年鉴), an annual collection of proverbs. The Autobiography, 18世纪美国唯一流传至今的自传 ?The Autobiography is, first of all, a Puritan document. It is Puritan because it is a record of self-examination and self-improvement. The Puritans, as a type, were very much given to self-analysis. ?The Autobiography shows Franklin was spokesman for the new order of 18th-century Enlightenment, and that he represented in America all its ideas, that man is basically good and free, by nature endowed by God with certain inalienable rights of liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I. Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1’= 10’) 1. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ____ was the dominant. 2. The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work named ____. 3. Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism? 4. The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the __ attitude of its author.
5.Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by ___. 6.Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in ___ and Thoreau. 7.Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”? 8.____ is considered Mark Twain’s greatest achievement.
1.Captain John Smith became the first American writer. 2.The puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people. is an annual collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin. 4.Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”. 5.Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston.
has been called the “Father of American Poetry”. 7.In Washington I rving’s appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature. 8.Cooper’s enduring fame rests on his William Cullen Bryant’s wok. is considered “father of American detective stories and American gothic stories”. 10.Emerson believed above all in
美国文学史期末考试复习题(使用书本为童明的《美国文学史修订版》) 一、名词解释（交代背景、内容/特点、代表人物/作品） 1. American Realism: In American literature, the Civil War brought the Romantic Period to an end. The Age of Realism came into existence. It came as a reaction against the lie of romanticism and sentimentalism. Realism turned from an emphasis on the strange toward a faithful rendering of the ordinary, a slice of life as it is really lived. It expresses the concern for commonplace and the low, and it offers an objective rather than an idealistic view of human nature and human experience. (the representative writers and its features should be also added.) 2. Black Humor : 1）In the 1960s, in literature, drama, and film, black humor refers to grotesque or morbid humor used to express the absurdity, insensitivity, paradox, and cruelty of the modern world. 2）Black humor often uses low comedy farce and low comedy to make clear that individuals are helpless victims of fate and character. 3）Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 is an example of this school 3. Henry James’s international theme: 书p159 4. Beat Generation： 1) American poets, 1950s-1960s, a rebellion ,counterculture, romantic, drugs and uninhibited sex. 2)Best and most influential poem: “Howl”:denounces the life-denying effects of American culture. 5.American Puritanism：it comes from the American puritans, who were the first immigrants moved to American continent in the 17th century. Original sin, predestination and salvation were the basic ideas of American Puritanism. And, hard-working, piousness，thrift and sobriety were praised.书p17 6. Transcendentalism: is a philosophic and literary movement that flourished in New England, particular at Concord, as a reaction against Rationalism and Calvinism. Mainly it stressed intuitive understanding of God, without the help of the church, and advocated independence of the mind. The representative writers are Emerson and Thoreau.
美国文学史复习1（colonialism) 第一部分殖民主义时期的文学 一、时期综述 1、清教徒采用的文学体裁：a、narratives 日记b、journals 游记 2、清教徒在美国的写作内容： 1）their voyage to the new land 2) Adapting themselves to unfamiliar climates and crops 3) About dealing with Indians 4) Guide to the new land, endless bounty, invitation to bold spirit 3、清教徒的思想： 1）puritan want to make up pure their religious beliefs and practices 净化信仰和行为方式 2) Wish to restore simplicity to church and the authority of the Bible to the theology. 重建教堂，提供简单服务，建立神圣地位 3）look upon themselves as chosen people, and it follow logically that anyone who challenged their way of life is opposing God's will and is not to be accepted. 认为自己是上帝选民，对他们的生活有异议就是反对上帝 4）puritan opposition to pleasure and the arts sometimes has been exaggerated. 反对对快乐和艺术的追求到了十分荒唐的地步5）religious teaching tended to emphasize the image of a wrathful God.强调上帝严厉的一面，忽视上帝仁慈的一面。 4、典型的清教徒：John Cotton & Roger William 他们的不同：John Cotton was much more concerned with authority than with democracy; William begins the history of religious toleration in America. 5、William的宗教观点：Toleration did not stem from a lack of religious convictions. Instead, it sprang from the idea that simply to be virtuous in conduct and devout in belief did not give anyone the right to force belief on others. He also felt that no political order or church system could identify itself directly with God. 行为上的德，信仰上的诚，并没有给任何人强迫别人该如何行事的权利。没有任何政治秩序和教会体制能够直接体现神本身的意旨。 6、英国最早移民到美国的诗人：Anne Bradstreet 7、在殖民时期最好的清教徒诗人：the best of Puritan poets is Edward Tayor. 学习指南： 1、Could you give a description of American Puritans? 关于美国清教徒的描绘 Like their brothers back in England, were idealists, believing that the church should be restored to the "purity" of the first-century church as established by Jesus Christ himself. To them religion was a matter of primary importance. They made it their chief business to see that man lived and thought and acted in a way which tended to the glory of God. They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin and total depravity, and limited atonement through a special infusion of grace from God, all that John Calvin, the great French theologian who lived in Geneva had preached. It was this kind of religious belief that they brought with them into the wildness. There they meaant to prove that were God's chosen people enjoying his blessings on this earth as in Heaven. 2、Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing. 3、The work of two writers, Anne Bradstreet & Edward Taylor, rose to the level of real poetry. 4、The earliest settlers included Dutch, Swedes, Germans, French, Spaniards Italian, and Portuguese. 美国文学史复习2（reasoning and revolution) (2009-01-17 15:54:25) 一、美国的性质： The war for Independence ended in the formation of a Federative bourgeois democratic republic - the United States of America. 联邦的资产阶级民主共和国--美利坚合众国。 二、代表作家： 1、Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林1706-1790 1）"Poor Richard's Almanac" 穷人查理德的年鉴annual collection of proverbs 流行谚语集 It soon became the most popular book of its kind, largely because of Franklin's shrewd humor, and first spread his reputation 2) Founded the Junto, a club for informal discussion of scientific, economic and political ideas. 建立了一个秘密俱乐部，讨论的主题是政治、经济和科学等时事方面的问题 3）established America's first circulating library, founded the college--University of Pennsylvania. 建立了美国第一个可租借的图书馆，还创办了一所大学——就是现在的宾夕法尼亚大学。 4）first applied the terms "positive" and "negative" to electrical charges. 5)As a representative of the Colonies, he tried in vain to counsel the British toward policies that would let America grow and flourish in association with England. He conducted the difficulty negotiations with France that brought financial and military support for America in the war. 作为殖民地的代表，他不断建议英国改变政策，使美国可以和英国一起发展、繁荣。他说服法国支持美国的独立战争。 6）As an author he had power of expression, simplicity, a subtle humor, sarcastic.作为作家具有非凡的才能，表达简洁明了，幽默，讽刺天才、 7）The Way to Wealth致富之道The Autobiography自传18世纪美国唯一流传至今的自传
美国文学史及选读试题 I. Multiple Choice 10’ 1. Who is different from others according to the division of writing period? A. Washington Irving B.William Cullen Bryant C. Captain John Smith D. James Fenimore Cooper 2. The American Romantic Period lasted roughly from ____ to ____. A. 1798-1832 B. 1810-1860 C. 1860-1864 D. 1776-1783 3. How many syllables are there in this first line of Raven? (“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,”) A. 11 B. 12 C. 13 D. 16 4. What dominated the Puritan phase of American writing? A. theology B. literature C. esthetics D. revolution 5. At the initial period of the spread of ideas of the Enlightenment was largely due to ____. A. typography B. journalism C. revolution D. the development of paper-making industry 6. Who has been called the “Father of American Literature”? A. Walt Scott B. Geoffrey Chaucer
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全书的焦点集中于南太平洋一条名叫莫比·迪克的白鲸,以及捕鲸船皮廓德(Pequod)号的船长阿哈(Ahab)如何对它有不共戴天的仇恨.阿哈在一次航行中被莫比·迪克咬掉一条腿,立志报仇,指挥皮廓德号环航全球追踪,终于发现了它.经过三天放下小艇紧追.虽然刺中了这条白鲸,但它十分顽强狡猾,咬碎了小艇,也撞沉了大船.它拖着捕鲸船游开时,绳子套住阿哈,把他绞死了.全船人尽皆灭顶.只有一个水手借着由棺材改制的救生浮子而逃得性命.整个故事以这个水手伊希梅尔(Ishmael)自述的方式展开. The book focuses on a whale named Moby Dick lived in south pacific and the captain of whaler Pequod—Ahab. Ahab was once bite by Moby Dick and lost a leg, determined to revenge,he commanded whaler pequod do global tracking, and finally found it. After three days of hot pursuit with the skiff,while they stabbed this white whale, but it was very tenacious and cunning, eventually chewed the skiff, also sank the ship. It dragged whaler swimming away, the rope was around Ahab, he was hanged. Almost all of people on the boat drowned, only a sailor called Ishmael survived .
2017年英语双学位《美国文学史及选读》期末考试题型及复习要点 期末考试题型及分值： 1．作家、作品配对题（10*1分= 10分） 2．作品选读题（填空题、简答题5*5分= 25分） 3. 文学术语、文学人物解释题（4*5分= 20分） 4. 论述题（3*15分= 45分） ●认真阅读教材的中文版的《序言》 ●熟悉教材中以下复习要点中各位作家的选文 Benjamin Franklin: ?Remember Benjamin Franklin as inventor, statesman and writer. ?Remember him as ‘father of the United States’. ?Writing features The Autobiography: It is the pattern of Puritan simplicity, directness, and concision. The narrative is lucid, the structure is simple, the imagery is homely. ?本杰明·富兰克林： ?本杰明·富兰克林是发明家、政治家和作家。 ?他是“美国之父”。 ?写作特点自传：这是清教徒的简单、直接和简洁的方式。叙事清晰，结构简单，意象朴实。 Edgar Allan Poe ●Remember Poe as father of modern short story and father of detective story. ●Remember his important works. ●Remember his critical works: The Poetic Principle and The Philosophy of Composition. ●Be able to list some of his famous short stories and some of his famous poems such as The Raven, Annabel Lee, To Helen. ?Tell the story The Cask of Amontillado in your own words. What is the theme of this short story? Be familiar with his poem To Helen. 埃德加爱伦坡 Poe是现代短篇小说之父和侦探小说之父。 他的重要著作。 他的批评作品：诗歌原则和写作哲学。 能够列出一些他著名的短篇小说和一些著名的诗歌，如《乌鸦》、《Annabel Lee》、《海伦》等。 ?讲述一桶白葡萄酒用你自己的话。 这个短篇小说的主题是什么？ 对海伦熟悉他的诗。 Ralph Waldo Emerson Know something about transcendentalism. Remember Emerson as the leader of this philosophy: Transcendentalism refers to a kind of attitude that believes in the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively, or of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the senses.Major concepts
美国文学史作品作家汇总 美国文学 Part 1. Colonial America Thomas Paine托马斯?潘恩1737-1809 The Case of the Officers of Excise税务员问题；Common Sense常识；American Crisis美国危机；Rights of Man人的权利：Downfall of Despotism专制体制的崩溃；The Age of Reason理性时代 Philip Freneau菲利普?弗伦诺1752-1832 The Rising Glory of America蒸蒸日上的美洲；The British Prison Ship英国囚船；To the Memory of the Brave Americans纪念美国勇士-----同类诗中最佳；The Wild Honeysuckle 野生的金银花；The Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地 .Jonathan Edwards The Freedom of the Will 论意志自由The Great Doctrine of Original Sin defended论原罪The Nature of True Virtue论真是德行的本原 Benjamin Franklin本杰明?富兰克林1706-1790 A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Money; Poor Richard’s Almanac穷查理历书；The Way to Wealth致富之道；The Autobiography自传 Part 2. American Romanticism Washington Irving华盛顿?欧文1783-1859 A History of New York纽约的历史-----美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作；The Sketch Book见闻札记The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说-----使之成为美国第一个获得国际声誉的作家；Brace bridge Hall布雷斯布里奇田庄；Talks of Travelers旅客谈；The Alhambra阿尔罕伯拉 Jamie Fennimore Cooper詹姆斯?费尼莫尔?库珀1789-1851 The Spy间谍;The Pilot领航者;The Little page Manuscripts利特佩奇的手稿;Leather stocking Tales皮裹腿故事集:The Pioneer拓荒者；The Last of Mohicans最后的莫希干人;The Prairie大草原;The Pathfinder探路者;The Deer slayer杀鹿者 Part 3.New England Transcendentalism Ralf Waldo Emerson拉尔夫?沃尔多?爱默生1803-1882 Essays散文集:Nature论自然-----新英格兰超验主义者的宣言书;The American Scholar 论美国学者;Divinity; The Over soul论超灵;Self-reliance论自立;The Transcendentalist超验主义者;Representative Men代表人物;English Traits 英国人的特征;School Address神学院演说 Concord Hymn康考德颂;The Rhoda杜鹃花;The Humble Bee野蜂;Days日