一选择题（20个共20分）
1.James Fenimore Cooper
作品The Leatherstocking Tales, 《皮袜子故事集》
2.Philip Freneau
The wild Honey Suckle《野忍冬花》
3.Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen
4.Henry David Thoreau
Walden《瓦尔登湖》
5.American Romanticism 浪漫主义
Period: from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the civil war
It started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
6.Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter 《红字》
7.美国内战（南北战争）时间1861.4.12—1865.4.9
8.Westward Movement 西进运动，开始于18世纪末，终于19世纪末20世纪初。
9.Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady 《一个女人的画像》
10.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature 《论自然》
11.John Smith
First American writer
12.Herman Melville
Moby-Dick 《大白鲸》
二连线题（作者和作品10分）
1.Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography
2.O.Henry
The Cop and the Anthem 《警察与赞美诗》
3.Jack London
The Sea Wolf 《海狼》
三名词解释2个（以下四选二，共10分）
1.American Dream
The freedom allowing all American people to pursue their goals in life through hard work and free choice.(1分) It often refers to the opportunity for immigrants to achieve greater material prosperity than was possible in their countries of origin.(2分)The founding Fathers used the phrase, ?life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? to encompass all that is available in American . It’s the opportunity to make individual choices without the
restrictions of class, race or religion. (2分)
2.American Puritanism 美国清教主义
A religious movement in the late 16th century，It sent an offshoot(分支) in the third and fourth decades of the 17th century to the northern English colonies in the New World，It laid the foundation for the religious, intellectual and social order of the New World。Puritans wanted to ?purify the church? to its original state, because they thought the church was corrupted and had too many rituals。To be a Puritan: taking religion as the most important thing; living for glorifying God.
3.American Romanticism 浪漫主义
(1)The Romanticism Period stretches from the end of 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War. It is a
period of the great flowering of American literature. It started with the publication of Washing ton Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass .
(2)It was rebellion against the objectivity of rationalism.
4.American Literature
mainly refers to literature produced in American English by people living in the U.S.. It also includes literature produced in other countries by American expatriates and in other languages by minorities in the country such as American Indian literature and the Jewish literature.
四赏析题
1-2诗的赏析两首诗二选一
答题标准：标出韵脚5分，中文译文15分共20分。
1.To Helen
海伦，你的美在我眼里a
有如往日尼西亚的三桅船b
船行在飘香的海上，悠悠地a
把已惓于漂泊的困乏船员b
送回他故乡的海岸b
早已习惯于在怒海上飘荡a
你典雅的面庞，你的鬈发b
你水神般的风姿带我返航a
光荣属于希腊b
伟大属于罗马a
看哪！壁龛似的明亮窗户里a
我看见你站着，多像尊雕塑b
一盏玛瑙的灯你拿在手上b
塞姬女神哪，神圣的土地a
才是你的家乡！b
2.The Wild Honey Suckle 《野忍冬花》
美丽的花啊，你长得这么秀丽a
却藏身在这僻静，沉闷的地方b
无人触及你含蜜的芬芳a
你纤弱的枝杈无人欣赏b
没游来荡去的脚把你踩踏c
无多事的手惹你落泪c
大自然授你白色的裙裳a
她命你远遁世俗的眼光b
她布置树荫把你护卫起来a
又让潺潺的柔波淌过你身旁b
你的夏天就这样静静流逝c
这时候你日见萎焉终将安息c
那些难免消逝的美使我销魂a
想起你未来的结局我就心疼b
别的那些花儿也不比你幸运a
虽开放在伊甸园也早已凋零b
无情的寒霜再加秋日的威力c
会叫这花朵消逝的一无踪迹c
朝阳和寒霜曾把你养育a
让你这小小的生命来到这世上b
原来若没有，就没什么失去a
因为你的死让你同先前一样b
这来去之间，不过是一个钟点c
这就是脆弱的花享有的天年c
3-4片段赏析二选一
答题标准：出处，作者，韵律（几步抑扬格），主题思想（歌颂了，表达了）Question
(1)Which poem is called the ?most perfect brief poem in the language??
(2)Besides his poems, he also translated two important works into English Blank verse. What are they?
答：To a waterfowl
“the most perfect brief poem in the language”
describes the poet’s observation of a bird escaping from a fowler (hunter) on the horizon at
sunset
Divine power/ guides and protects life
Meter:
Vainly the fowler's eye three iambic feet
Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong five iambic feet
As, darkly painted on the crimson sky five iambic feet
Thy figure floats along three iambic feet
(1)In each stanza, the poet uses iambic trimiter in lines 1 and 4 but iambic pentameter in lines 2 and 3.
(2)The second stanza illustrates this format:
Analysis
(1)The poem represents early stages of American Romanticism through celebration of Nature and God’s
presence within Nature.
(2)Bryant is acknowledged as being skillful at depicting American scenery and his natural details are
often combined with a universal moral, as in "To a Waterfowl?
Annabel Lee《安娜贝尔丽》
In the poem, Poe examines a theme which he examines in many of his works: the death of a beautiful woman. It is a poem written in memory of his deceased young wife Virginia Clemm. The poem is
permeated with melancholy.
The poem coincides with Poe’s poetics. It is readable at one sitting. In the poem, Poe examines a
theme which he examines in many of his works: the death of a young pretty woman, which, according to him, is “unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” The poem is filled w ith melancholy as he believes “melancholy is the most legitimate [l?‘d??t?m?t](合理的) of all the poetic tones.
五问答题
1.爱伦坡的文学成就10分
Edgar Allan Poe，father of modern short story，father of detective story，
father of psychoanalytic(精神分析的) criticism。
Poems
1.theory
1.Poems should be short, concise and readable at one sitting.
2.The aim of poem writing is beauty; the most beautiful thing described by a poem is the death of a beautiful woman; the desirable tone of a poem is melancholy[mel?nk?l?]（忧郁）.
3.He stressed the form of poem, especially the beautiful and neat rhyme.
4.Famous Poems: The Raven, Annabel Lee, To Helen
《红字》The Scarlet Letter
答题要点：summary+comment
基本人物，情节，故事时间，背景，人物分析。写评价，反映了霍桑…（罪恶是一种与生俱来的东西）
The Symbolic Meaning of the Four Major Characters
1.Hester。Beauty，strong will and endurance，kindness。
Hester Prynne: This book is not a praise of Hester Prynne sinning, but a hymn(赞歌) on the moral growth of the woman when sinned against.
Hester’s life eventually acquires a real significance when she reestablishes a meaningful relationship with her fellowmen。
Symbolic meaning of her moral development is the gradual, subtle change which the scarlet letter undergoes in meaning. A –“Adultery” “Able”, “Angel”
2.Arthur Dimmesdale
weak and coward
3.Roger Chillingworth。heartless and merciless。his misshapen body reflects or symbolizes the evil in his soul。
4.Pearl。She is the scarlet letter in another form, the scarlet letter endowed with life;
-- She is the symbol of the ardent (deep) love;
-- She serves as moral in the novel;
-- She symbolizes the revolt(反感，厌恶) against Puritanism.
总结：he represents the secret sinner who fights the good fight in his soul and eventually wins.
Hawthorne’s point of view：(1)Evil exists in the human heart, human heart is the source of evil. Everyone possesses some evil secret. Whenever there is sin, there is punishment. Evil is man’s birthmark. (2). Evil educates. Achievement is “under the impact of and by engagement with evil”.经历过犯罪，受到其影响，人们才能有所成就。Man is better for the crime which brings about the fall. 人在犯罪后才能更好的完善自己。
Conclusion: Acc ording to Hawthorne, “there is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.” A piece of literary work should “show how
we are all wronged and wrongers, and avenge one anoth er.” So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses sin and evil.
2.区别现实主义与自然主义
现实主义：American Realism was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to modernism. During this period a new generation of writers , dissatisfied with the romantic ideas in the order generation, came up with a new inspiration . this new attitude was characterized by a great interest in the realities of life. It aimed at the interpretation of the realities of any aspect of life, free from subjective prejudice, idealism, or romantic color. Instead of thinking about the mysteries of life and death and heroic individualism, people’s attention was now directed to the interesting features of everyday existence, to what was brutal or sordid. And to the interesting features of everyday existence, to what was brutal or sodid, and to the open portayal of class struggle. Mark Twain Howells and Henry James are three leading figures of the American Realism.
自然主义：American Naturalism was a new and harsher realism. American naturalism had been shaped by the war, by the social upheavals that undermined the comforting faith of an earlier age.
4.超验主义（有关内容全写，代表人物，爱默生）
Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture and philosophy that emerged in new England in the early to middle 19th century. Transcendentalists spoke for cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American society . It placed emphasis on spirit , or the over soul, as the most important thing in the world. It stressed the importance of individual and offered a fresh perception nature and symbolic of the spirit of God. Prominent transcendentalists included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David thorough.
爱默生的主题和思想：1. Express his firm belief in the transcendence of the over soul or spirit that runs
through almost all his writings
3.Regard nature as the purest and moral influence on man which can make people holy(圣洁的).
4.Believe that the individual is the most importance of all, and convince people the
possibilities for man to develop and improve himself. He is optimistic about human perfectibility.
5.Calls for an independent culture in The American Scholar. in Emerson’s phrase, the
scholar is “Man Thinking”.
第17单元20世纪美国诗人（1） I.Fill in the blanks. 1.Author_____Title_____（南京大学2007研） The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet,black bough. 【答案】Author:Ezra Pound；Title:“In a Station of the Metro” 【解析】题目节选自庞德的《在一个地铁车站》，该诗是以一个意象作为叙述语言的典型范例。 2.Ezra Pound’s lifelong endeavor had been devoted to the writing of_____,which contains_____poems.（国际关系学院2007研） 【答案】The Cantos;117 【解析】庞德把毕生精力都投入到写作《诗章》当中，《诗章》共包括117首诗。 3.Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the“_____”movement. 【答案】imagism 【解析】庞德是意象主义运动的领军人物。 4._____was successful in two fields of activity which did not seem compatible with
one another:he was a very successful businessman and a very remarkable contemporary poet at the same time.（人大2006研） 【答案】Wallace Stevens 【解析】华莱士·史蒂文斯(Wallace Stevens)是美国20世纪的著名诗人。他集企业家和诗人于一身。 5.Winner of the National Book Award in1950and the Pulitzer Prize in1963,______ is the author of the five-volume epic Paterson which is a lucid statement of the author’s aesthetics. 【答案】William Carlos Williams 【解析】威廉·卡洛斯·威廉斯的代表作是《佩特森》，它清晰地表达了诗人的美学观点。 6.At the age of44,Wallace Stevens was finally persuaded to publish a book of poems,entitled_____. 【答案】Harmonium 【解析】1923年，44岁的华莱士-史蒂文斯出版了他的第一部诗集《风琴》（Harmonium）。 7.After his death,Wallace Stevens’s previously uncollected works appeared under the title_____. 【答案】Opus Posthumous 【解析】华莱士·史蒂文斯死后，其之前未收集的诗作集合成册于1957年发表，名为《遗作》(Opus Posthumous)。
美国文学试题库 注：试题库内容仅作为学习参考使用，并不代表考试内容。任何一道题均可能变化为其它形式的试题。 1. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________. A. rational B. humorous C. optimistic D. pessimistic 2.The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American___________ . A. local colorism B. vernacularism C. modernism D. naturalism 3. ____________were idealists, believing the church should be restored to complete “purity” and dreaming that they would build the new land to an Eden on earth. A. Calvinists B. Puritans C. Romanticists D. Transcendentalists 4. All of the following are the features of Puritans EXCEPT _____. A. wanting to make pure their religious beliefs and practices
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美国文学复习题(有答案版)
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I、Write the Names of the Authors、 1、Poor Richard’s Almanac 2、Common Sense 3、The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 4、A Streetcar Named Desire 5、The Waste Land 6、Sister Carrie 7、The House of the Seven Gables 8、The Great Gatsby 9、The Bluest Eye 10、 A Farewell to Arms 11、R ip Van Winkle 12、Raven 13、The Call of the Wild 14、The Marble Faun 15、Moby Dick 16、The Wing of the Dove 17、Of Mice and Men 18、The Bluest Eye 19、The Great Gatsby 20、The Bluest Eye 21、The Sound and the Fury II、Multiple Choices(Choose the best answer from the four choices)、 1、From 1622 until his death, , one of the greatest of colonial American, was reelected thirty times as governor、 A、Anne Bradstreet B、William Bradford C、Edward Taylor D、Thomas Pain 2、carries the voice not of an individual but of a whole people、It is more than writing of the Revolutionary period, it defined the meaning of the American Revolution、 A、Common Sense B、The American Crisis C、Declaration of Independence D、Defense of the English People 3、usually was regarded as the first American writer、 A、William Bradford B、Anne Bradstreet C、Emily Dickinson D、Captain John Smith 4、Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet、Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the " "who appeared in America、 A、Ninth Muse B、Tenth Muse C、Best Muse D、First Muse 5、_____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club、 A、Henry David Thoreau B、Ralph Waldo Emerson C、Nathanial Hawthorne D、Walt Whitman
美国文学选择题及答案 1. William Faulkner is the author of ______. a. Far From the Madding Crowd b. Sound and Fury c. For Whom the Bell Tolls d. Scarlet Letter 2. Robert Frost is a famous_______. a. novelist b. playwright c. poet d. literary critic 3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ________. a. Jack London b. Charles Dickens c. Samuel Coleridge d. Earnest Hemingway 4. _______refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality. a. Allegory b. Conflict c. Irony d. Flashback 5. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is______. a. Nature b. Walden c. Experience d. Essays 6. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of _____and serious literature. a. American folk humor b. funny jokes c. English folklore d. American values 7. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War? a. Fennimore Cooper. b. Nathaniel Hawthorn. c. Walt Whitman. d. Washington Irving. 8. I Have a Dream is addressed by _____. a. Abraham Lincoln b. John F. Kennedy c. Martin Luther King d. Ralph Waldo Emerson 9. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson? a. This is my letter to the world b. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died c. This is just to say d. Because I could not stop for death 10. Eugene O’Neil is an American ______. a. novelist b. playwright c. poet d. essayist 11. The period from 1865—1914 has been referred to as the _______in the literary history of the United States. a. Age of Realism b. Age of Classicalism c. Age of Romanticism d. Age of Renaissance 12. With “Collected Poems”, ______won the second Pulitzer Prize. a. Ezra Pond b. e. e. cummings c. Robert Frost d. William Cullen Bryant 13. Grass is a poem written by _______.
苏州科技学院期末考试试题（卷） 评分标准及标准答案 A卷 院系：专业：考试科目：美国文学史及选读考试形式：闭卷考试时间： 100 分钟 I.Blanks: (10%)(每题1分，共10分，答错不给分) 1. American literature 2. English 3. Puritans 4. short story 5. Autobiography 6. Philip Freneau 7. Washington Irving 8. Edgar Allan Poe 9. The Scarlet Letter II.Multiple Choice: ( 20%)(每题1分，共20分，答错不给分) 1. A 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. A 6. C 7. B 8. C 9. B 10. D 11. A 12. B 13. B 14. B 15. C 16.C 17. B 18. A 19. C 20. D III.Identification (20%)（每题1分，共20分，答错不给分） 1.James Fenimore Cooper 2.Washington Irving 3.Anne Bradstreet 4.Michael Wigglesworth 5.Washington Irving 6.James Fenimore Cooper 7.Philip Freneau 8.William Cullen Bryant
9.Edgar Allan Poe 10.Edgar Allan Poe 11.Nathaniel Hawthorne 12.Edgar Allan Poe 13.Anne Bradstreet 14.Washington Irving 15.James Fenimore Cooper 16.Philip Freneau 17.William Cullen Bryant 18.Edgar Allan Poe 19.Nathaniel Hawthorne 20.Philip Freneau IV.Terms (20%)（每题4分，共20分） 1. Poor Richard’s Almanac key words: Benjamin Franklin, sayings, hard work, thrift, Puritan, quotes, printed himself, etc. 2. Leatherstocking Tales Key words: Cooper, five novels, Natty Bumppo, frontier, frontiersman, life from youth to old age, The Pioneer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer, etc. 3. Puritanism key words: Calvin, purify, hard work, thrift, predestination, salvation, sin, God, from England to America, immigration, etc. 4. Benjamin Franklin key words: statesman, scientist and writer, Autobiography, Poor Richard’s Almanac, puritan, hard work and thrift, successful, contributions, printer, etc. V.Appreciation (10%)（每题5分，共10分） Part A a)Philip Freneau’s（1分）The Wild Honey Suckle （1分） b)It is written in iambic tetrameter, the rhyme scheme is ababcc. （1分） c)“Little being” refers to the wild honey suckle. （1分）“But an hour” means the lifespan of a flower is very short. （1分）
大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题： 1.选择/对错 60分（40道选择， 20个对错） 2.名词解释 10分（5个） 3.选段配对 10分（5个） 4.问答 20分（10/2） 1．历史：Father / poetess… 2. 名作家：Hemingway, Faulkner, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson 3．作品：The Wasteland/Moby Dick/Scarlet Letter 选择题（40个，40分） 1. At the age of reason and revolution, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ________. A. Chartist Movement B. Romanticist Movement C. Enlightenment Movement D. Modernist Movement 2. Which is NOT connected to Benjamin Franklin ________ A. He was born in a poor family. B. He was a pious puritan. C. He was phrased as “Jack of all trades”. D. He was a master of diplomacy. 3. Ernest Hemingway is noted for the following EXCEPT ________. A. Lost Generation B. Iceberg theory
…………………………………密…………封…………线……………………………… I.Fill in the blanks. (20 points in all, 2 points for each blank) 1.By the end of the Civil War, most of the forces that would typify 20th century had begun to emerge. Northern had triumphed over Southern . 2.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ——that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. 3.The publication in 1922 of ’s The Waste Land, the most significant American poem of the 20th century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought. 4.Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a , devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization. 5.American Puritans wanted to make pure their religious and . They wished to restore simplicity to church services and the authority of the Bible to theology. 6.——a movement supported by all progressive forces of the country which opposed themselves to the old colonial order and religious obscurantism. 7. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of . 8. was considered the Father of American short story and familiar essays, and the first American author to make a living by his pen. II. Identify the fragments. (30 points in all, 6 for each passage) Passage 1: From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books. Pleas’d with the Pilgrim’s Progress, my first Collection was of John Bunyan’s Works, in separate little V olumes…This Bookish Inclination at length determin’d my Father to make me a Printer, tho’ he had already one Son, (James) of that Profession. Questions: 1) From which work is it excerpted and what is the author’s name? (2 points) 2) What is the language style in this work? (4 points) Passage 2: At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. I have thus surveyed the country on every side within a dozen miles of where I live. In imagination I have bought all the farms in succession, for all were to be bought and I knew their price. Questions: 1) From which work is it excerpted and who wrote it? (2 points)