美国文学
1．第7题
__C__ was considered to be the first American writer.
A.Washington Irving
B.Benjamin Franklin
C.John Smith
D.Hoffman
答案:C
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2．第8题
The School Room Poets did not include _____.
A.Longfellow
B.Lowell
C.Holmes
D.Poe
答案:D
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3．第9题
pound’s poem “the river-merchant’s wife” was translated ｆrom a poem by the chinese poet __________.
A.李白
B.杜甫
C.白居易
D.王安石
答案:A
您的答案：A
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4．第14题
Tales of a Traveller was written by the American author__________.
A.James Fenimore Cooper
B.Washington Irving
C.Nathaniel Hawthorne
答案:B
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5．第18题
The modern critic Van W. Brooks calls
_____ a shredded Shakespeare play.
A.The Scarlet Letter
B.Moby Dick
C.Billy Budd
D.Mardi
答案:B
您的答案：B
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6．第19题
“Civil Disobedience” is a famous essay written by ___________.
A.Ralph Waldo Emerson
B.Henry David Thoreau
C.E. B. White
答案:B
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7．第20题
among the following three american writers, only one has never been married in his ｏr her life. the person is ___.
A. Edgar Ellan Poe
B.Herman Melville
C.Emily Dickinson
答案:C
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8．第21题
The first American writer who propounded that a piece of literary work should focus on the production of a single emotional effect is ___.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B.Herman Melville
C.Edgar Ellan Poe
答案:C
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9．第22题
The poem “Thanatopsis” was written by
__________.
A.Emily Dickinson
B.William Cullen Bryant
C.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
答案:B
您的答案：B
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10．第23题
"Two roads diverged in a yellow woods" is a line in a poem written by ---.
A.T. S. Eliot
B.Wallace Stevens
C.Robert Frost
答案:C
您的答案：C
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11．第24题
The Fall of the House of Usher was a horror story by ______.
A.Nathaniel Hawthorne
B.Edgar Allan Poe
C.Melville
D.Longfellow
答案:B
您的答案：B
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12．第25题
Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of man and ____.
A.nature
B.self-reliance
C.self
D.life
答案:A
您的答案：A
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13．第26题
____ Bryant’s best-known poem, was written when he was only sixteen years old.
A.To a Waterfowl
B.Thanatopsis
C.To Helen
D.Annabel Lee
答案:B
您的答案：B
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14．第27题
1.牋牋？ ________ was the first writer of local color to achieve wide popularity.
A.Mark Twain
B.Harriet Stowe
C.Bret Harte
D.Henry James
答案:C
您的答案：C
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15．第28题
______ translated the Bible into the Indian tongue.
A.Benjamin Franklin
B.Roger Williams
C.. John Eliot
D.John Cotton
答案:C
您的答案：C
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16．第29题
The best-selling books in the first decades of the twentieth century were ___.
A.news report
B.travel books
https://www.doczj.com/doc/c93080307.html,mercial books
D.historical romances
答案:D
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17．第30题
Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story A Rose for Emily, can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities except______.
A.old values
B.rigid ideas of social status
C.bigotry and eccentricity
D.harmony and integrity
答案:D
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18．第38题
___ is not a name to refer to Natty Bumppo in Cooper’s frontier saga.
A.deerslayer
B.pathfinder
C.hawkeye
D.Mohican
答案:D
您的答案：D
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19．第39题
"To a Waterfowl" is a poem written by ---.
A.Edgar Ellan Poe
B.William Cullen Bryant
C. Whittier
答案:B
您的答案：B
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20．第40题
Among the following stories written by Poe, only one belongs to the category of the detective story. It is ___.
A.The Purloined Letter
B. Ligeia
C.The Tell-tale Heart
答案:A
您的答案：A
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21．第41题
The novel Sister Carrie opens with a description of Carrie on a train trip to the city of _______ looking for a factory job.
A.New York
B.Beijing
C.Boston
D.Chicago
答案:D
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22．第42题
The short novel The Turn of the Screw was written by ________.
A.Henry James
B.Fitzgerald
C.Ernest Hemingway
D.William Faulkner
答案:A
您的答案：A
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23．第43题
The most famous sea story written by Jack London is _______.
A.Martin Eden
B.The Iron Heel
C.The Sea Wolf
D.The Call of the Wild
答案:C
您的答案：C
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24．第44题
Among the following authors the one who received 4 pulitzer prizes was ---.
A.Robert Frost
B.Jack London
C.Mark Twain
答案:A
您的答案：A
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25．第45题
My Lost Youth written by ____ is about his hometown of Portland, Maine.
A.Henry W. Longfellow
B.John Cotton
C.Carl Sandburg
D.Anne Bradstreet
答案:A
您的答案：A
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26．第46题
William Sidney Porter was the real name of ________.
A.Mark Twain
B.O’ Henry
C.Jack London
D.William Dean Howells
答案:B
您的答案：B
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27．第47题
When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.
A.Henry James
B.Scott Fitzgerald
C.Hemingway
D.William Faulkne
答案:B
您的答案：B
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28．第48题
Puritans emphasized a ____God.
A.merciful
B.wrathful
C.benevolent
D.learned
答案:B
您的答案：B
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29．第49题
The American writer whose one essay greatly influenced later civil right leader Martin Luther King is ___.
A.Ralph Waldo Emerson
B.Philip Freneau
C.Henry David Thoreau
答案:C
您的答案：C
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30．第50题
____ Bryant’s best-known poem, was written when he was only sixteen years old.
A.To a Waterfowl
B.Thanatopsis
C.To Helen
D.Annabel Lee
答案:B
您的答案：A
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31．第51题
Besides symbolism, all the following qualities except ______are fused to make Melville’s Moby-Dick, a world classic.
A.narrative power ？
B.psychological analysis
C.speculative agility ？
D.optimistic view of life
答案:D
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32．第52题
The central character’s name in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel series The Leatherstocking Tales is ______________.
A.Isabelle Archer
B.Natty Bumpo
C.Ishmael
答案:B
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33．第53题
A poetic line of two feet is called ___________.
A.monometer
B.dimeter
C.trimeter
D.tetrameter
答案:B
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34．第54题
Perhaps Dickinson's greatest rendering of the moment of ___________ is to be found in I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died---a poem universally considered one of her masterpieces.
A.enthusiasm
B.death
C.crisis
D.fantasy
答案:B
您的答案：B
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35．第55题
Jack London did not write ______.
A.The Sea Wolf
B.The Call of the Wild
C.The Ambassadors
D.White Fang
答案:C
您的答案：C
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36．第56题
American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. It was _____.
A.. Anne Bradstreet
B.Jane Austen
C.Emily Dickinson
D.Harriet Beecher
答案:C
您的答案：B
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37．第57题
The first writings that we may call American were the narratives and ___ of the early English settlements.
A.. documents
B.journals
C.statements
D.files
答案:D
您的答案：D
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38．第58题
Many of O’ Henry’s stories tell about the lives of poor people in ____.
A.Chicago
B.New York
C.New Jersey
D.New England
答案:B
您的答案：B
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39．第59题
William Faulkner once declared that ___
was the first truly American writer from whom we are descended.
A.Washington Irving
B.Cooper
C.Hawthorne
D.Mark Twain
答案:D
您的答案：D
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40．第60题
The Waste Land was dedicated to another poet who was __________.
A.Ernest Hemingway
B.Ezra Pound
C.T. S. Eliot
D.William Carlos Williams
答案:B
您的答案：C
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41．第1题
1.？？？？？ While working for the
Virginia City Enterprise, Samuel Langhorne
Clemens adopted the pseudonym “Mark Twain,” which means two fathoms.
答案:正确
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42．第2题
1.牋牋？ Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable.答案:正确
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43．第3题
Besides Moby Dick, Melville also wrote some other sea novels.
答案:正确
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44．第4题
"Tell me not, in mournful numbers" is a
美国文学选读第三版课后习题答案洁(部分) Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin Questions 1.Why did Franklin write his Autobiography? Franklin says that because his son may wish to know about his life, he is taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past. He also says that he has enjoyed his life and would like to repeat it 2.What made Franklin decide to leave the brother to whom he had been apprenticed? His brother was passionate, and had often beaten him. The aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to him through his whole life .After a brush with the law, Franklin left his brother. 3.How did he arrive in Philadephia? First he set out in a boat for Amboy, the boat dropped him off about 50 miles from Burlington, the next day he reached Burlington on foot, in Burlington he found a boat which was going towards Philadelphia, he arrived there about eight
2018年自学考试《美国文学选读》试题 Multiple choice; 1._________ works are marked by a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil. A.Emerson’s B. Hawthorne’s C. Thoreau’s D. Allan Poe’s 2. Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle”got ideas from _______ legends. A.B ritish B. German C. Italian D. French 3. “Rip Van Winkle”reveals the theme of ______ the past. A. nostalgia for B. rejectionn to C. detachment from D. dislike for 4. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter , “A”may stand for ____________. A. Angel B. Adultery C. Able D.all the above 4. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter “A”which originally stood for “____”finally obtained the meaning of “able”or “angel”through Hester’s efforts. A. adultery B. arrogance C. accomplishment D. agony 5. Which one is not the characteristics of the puritan style? A. Fresh B. Simple C. Grand D. Direct 6. In his ______, Benjamin Franklin creates the image of a boy’s rise from rags to riches and demonstrates his belief that the new world America was a land of opportunities which might be met through hard work and wise management.
1、The Colonial Period（1607-1765） American Puritanism ( in the early 17th century through the end of the 18th) 北美第一位女诗人Anne Bradstreet(宗教气息，夫妻恩爱) Edward Taylor 都受英国玄学派影响（metaphysical） 2、The Enlightenment and Revolution Period Benjamin Franklin:Poor Richard's Almanac The Autobiography---“美国梦”的根源 3、American Romanticism（end of 18th to the civil war） American writers emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature. 早期浪漫主义Washington Irving father of American Literature
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
美国文学史及作品选读模拟试题一 ) '×15=15I.Multiple Choice (1'______was the first colony in American history. C1. D.Georgia C. Virginia A. Massachusetts B. New Jersey War. the before Revolutionary only good American author 2. _B_____ was the
One “His shadow lies heavier than any other man's on of his fellow Americans said, this young nation.”D.Thomas Paine B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson A. John Smith 3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____. D. individualism C. intuition B. imagination A. common sense The Raven was written in 1844 by __B______ 4. B. Edgar Allan Poe A. Philip Freneau D. Emily Dickinson C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 5. The ship __C____ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts. D. Titanic C. Mayflower B. Armada A. Sunflower D____ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in 6. Melville's novel __ pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale. Moby Dick D. C. White Jacket A. Typee B. Omoo 7. As a philosophical and literary movement, __D____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War. D.Transcendentalism C.Sentimentalism B.Rationalism A.Modernism 8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in ___A______. B. Sister Carrie A. The Scarlet Letter The Old Man and Sea D. C. The Great Gatsby 9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ___B___ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically. 页1 第 A. Puritan B. materialistic C. psychological D. religious 10. Realism was a reaction against____B__ or a move away from the bias towards
《英语文学文化及影视赏析》课程教学大纲 一、课程说明 1、课程名称（中英文）：英语文学文化及影视赏析/English Literature and Culture & Appreciation of English movies 2、学时学分：75学时理论教学，2学分 3、适用专业：非英语专业研究生 4、开课学院：外国语学院 5、课程负责人：姜萌萌 二、课程描述： 本课程拟对英语经典文学与相关文化概况进行简要介绍，并遴选英美国家的经典作家和作品，对其文学特色、文化背景进行分析。课程重视文学作品与时代背景、西方历史文化的联系，在教学中将理论与实践相结合，做到寓教于乐。在课内，不仅有作家作品、相关文化背景和信息的介绍、经典作品片段的解读，并通过课堂讨论以及影视作品的欣赏帮助学生最直观地理解西方文化与文学作品的文本意义。在课外，学生需要查阅相关资料，完成相关问题的回答与读书报告，以一种轻松愉悦并且多方面切入的方式学习、了解和体验英语文学文化。该课程目的在于通过英语文学文化的学习，提高学生对英语语言的掌握能力、增强对英语文学经典的理解力和对西方文化的审美能力，进一步养成对英语的敏感性，培养人文素质和文学涵养。 三、教材： 王守仁主编，《英国文学选读》，北京：高等教育出版社。 陶洁主编，《美国文学选读》，北京：高等教育出版社。 秦秀白，《英美国家概况》，北京：高等教育出版社。 王佐良，《欧洲文化入门》，北京：外语教学与研究出版社。 自编讲义 四、教学方式： 理论与实践相结合。 五、考核方式： 提交一篇与所学课程相关的课程论文，用英语完成。 总成绩=期末考试成绩70%+平时成绩30%（考勤占10%）
2012-2013学年第二学期 《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A卷） 专业：英语年级：2010级考试方式：闭卷学分：2 考试时间：110分钟 I．Multiple Choices(每小题 1分，共20分) Directions: Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question. II．Explain the Following Literary Terms Briefly (每小题7分，共14分) Directions: Please write down the answers on the Answer Sheet. Local Colorism Transcendentalism III．Identification of Fragments (每小题7分，共21分) Directions: Please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly comment on it in English. Please write down the answers on the Answer Sheet. 23. “…That?s right.? He said; …I?m no good now. I was all right. I had money. I?m going to quit this,? and, with death in his heart, he started down toward the Bowery. People had turned on the gas before and died; why shouldn?t he? He remembered a lodging house where there were little, close rooms, with gas-jet in them, almost pre-arranged, he thought, for what he wanted to do, which rented for fifteen cents. Then he remembered that he had no fifteen cents.” 25. “Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why that would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. 24. “…Mr. Gatz, I thought you might want to take the body West.?
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
《美国文学选读》课程标准 一、课程性质与任务 美国文学选读是英语专业高年级的选修课。它与英美文学史密切结合，使学生在接触到浩繁的文学作品的同时，可以对繁杂的文学现象加以整理和梳理，并形成自己阅读文学作品的习惯，开阔视野，在学习过程中把握正确的理解文学作品的方法。美国文学选读通过向学生介绍文学作品及其作品创作的历史文化背景，培养学生阅读文学作品的兴趣，增强语感，增进学生对美国社会、历史、文化以及生活习俗的了解，提高他们对西方文学的欣赏能力及批评能力。 二、课程教学目标 1．知识目标 1）文学知识：通过本课程的学习，学生应深入、直观地理解各个时期的美国文学作品，把握其思想、语言及创作技巧上的特点；另外，还应对美国的文学评论流变具备相对清晰的认识。 2）语言知识：本课程是通过介绍不同文体的文学作品，深化学生对英语语言的认知、理解和应用的能力。并通过对不同时期英语原文资料的阅读和解析，以一种更加直观的方式了解这门语言的发展。 2．能力目标 1）文学作品鉴赏能力：通过作者作品的讲解，学生可以对作品的社会历史价值和艺术价值进行评价，培养并提高自我的鉴赏能力； 2）语言表达能力：通过课堂和课下阅读及评价任务的完成，学生的口头和书面表达能力能够得到全面的提高； 3）思辩能力：课上小组讨论环节和presentation环节能够激发学生的思辩能力，助其开拓思路，同时也为以后对英语的有效使用打下基础。 3．素质目标 1）文学文化修养：本课程作为英语专业高年级学生的素养课，旨在培养学生对美国文学及文化的理解，可以使学生以直观的方式全面接触这种语言和文化，并形成独立的开放的文化观，进一步强化其跨文化意识； 2）基本的研究素质：本课程通过对文学评论的介绍和讲解向学生传授文学鉴赏的不同视角，可使其具备基本的文学研究素质； 3）文学翻译的基础：本课程通过对文学作品的细读向学生介绍文字背后的人文、历史、政治、哲学及美学等因素，可为文学翻译课程提供较好的材料，并做好前期准备。 三、课程基本信息和内容要求
《美国文学》期末考试试卷（B卷） 1.Poor Richard’s Almanac ( ) 2.The House of the Seven Gables ( ) 3.“Raven”( ) 4.My Antonia ( ) 5.Babbitt ( ) 6.A Streetcar Named Desire ( ) 7.Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( ) 8.A Farewell to Arms ( ) 9.The Call of the Wild ( ) 10.Long Day's Journey into Night ( ) https://www.doczj.com/doc/c93080307.html,mon Sense ( ) 12. “Rip Van Winkle”( ) 13. Walden( ) 14. The Song of Hiawatha( ) 15. Uncle Tom’s Cabin( ) 16.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( ) 17.Sister Carrie( ) 18.The Waste Land( ) 19. A Farewell to Arms( ) 20.The Great Gatsby( ) 1.defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty. 2.While working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Samuel Langhorne Clemens adopted the pseudonym , the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning two fathoms. 3.Ezra Pound initiated a campaign for , which emphasized the direct treatment of an object or situation. He also advocated the language of common speech, but always the exact word. 4.Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel _________. 5.is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters. 6.The first of American literature was not written by an American, but by ___________________, a British captain, who thus became the first American writer. 7._________________ has been considered the “Father of modern American Poetry.\
1.C aptain John Smith became the first American writer. 2.T he puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people. collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin. 4.T homas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”.
5.T homas 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.I n Washington Irving’s appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.
8.C ooper’s enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five novels that comprise the is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant’s wok. “father of American detective stories and American gothic stories”.
美国文学选读第三版课后习题答案陶洁(部分) Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin Questions 1.Why did Franklin write his Autobiography? Franklin says that because his son may wish to know about his life, he is taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past. He also says that he has enjoyed his life and would like to repeat it 2.What made Franklin decide to leave the brother to whom he had been apprenticed? His brother was passionate, and had often beaten him. The aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to him through his whole life .After a brush with the law, Franklin left his brother. 3.How did he arrive in Philadephia? First he set out in a boat for Amboy, the boat dropped him off about 50 miles from Burlington, the next day he reached Burlington on foot, in Burlington he found a boat which was going towards Philadelphia, he arrived there about eight
2019年宁波大学硕士研究生招生考试复试科目考试大纲 科目名称: 英美文学 一、考试形式与试卷结构 （一）试卷满分及考试时间 本试卷满分为100分，考试时间为180分钟。 （二）答题方式 答题方式为闭卷、笔试。 （三）试卷题型结构 1.作家作品辨识 2．名词解释 2. 简答题 3. 作品赏析与批评 二、考查目标（复习要求） 《英美文学》是一门专业方向课程，涉及英美文学作家作品、文学流派、文学批评方法等内容。要求掌握英美文学史的代表性作家及其作品，了解作家的基本创作思想，对英美文学史的思潮和流派有较好的把握，熟悉关于文学知识的基本概念，能够运用一定的文学批评方法分析文学作品。 三、考试内容概要 英国文学：了解英国文学史各时期的主要作家作品及其创作思想，重点了解文艺复兴时期的戏剧和诗歌、17世纪的英国诗歌、18世纪的小说创作、英国浪漫主义诗歌、19世纪英国现实主义作家作品、20世纪英国现代主义和后现代主义文学等。关注以下重要作家：Geoffrey Chaucer 、William Shakespeare 、Francis Bacon 、John Donne 、Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift 、William Blake 、Robert Burns、William Wordsworth、Samuel Taylor Coleridge、Jane Austen、George Gordon Byron 、Percy Bysshe Shelley 、John Keats 、Charlotte Bronte 、Charles Dickens 、Alfred Tennyson 、Robert Browning 、Matthew Arnold 、Thomas Hardy Oscar Wilde 、George Bernard Shaw 、Joseph Conrad 、T.S.Eliot 、William Butler Yeats 、Virginia Woolf 、James Joyce, https://www.doczj.com/doc/c93080307.html,wrence、 E.M.Forster 、William Golding 、Doris Lessing 、John Fowles 、Dylan Thomas 、Philip Larkin 、Ted
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）
美国文学史及选读试卷 Ⅰ. Multiple choices. (60 points in total, 2 for each) 1. The Romantic Period in American literature started from the publication of Washington Irving's ______ and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass. A. The Sketch Book B. Tales of a Traveller C. A History of New York D. The Scarlet Letter 2. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “_____”. A. the English Renaissance B. the Second Renaissance C. the American Renaissance D. the Salem Renaissance 3. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ______. A. nature , man and the universe B. the relationship between man and woman C. the development of Romanticism in American literature D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism 14. In the following statements, _________ is NOT true about Washington Irving’s famous story “Rip Van Winkle.” A. The story is not only well-kno wn for Rip’s 20-year sleep but also considered a model of perfect English in American literature. B. The story is set against the background of the inevitably changing America. C. The social conservatism and literary preference for the past is revealed, to some extent, in the story. D. Irving describes Rip’s response and reaction in a dramatic way, so that we see clearly both the narrator and Irving agree on the preferability of the present to the past. 15. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Experience is a serous discussion about the conflict between _________ and ordinary life.