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Exerci Two
Ⅰ. Write the names of the authors.(10%)
1. The Prince and the Pauper
2. The Red Badge of Courage
3. “A Clean, Well Lighted Room”
4. Call of the Wild
5. “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
6. “A Station at the Metro”
7. “Fire and Ice”
8. The Autobiography
9. “One’s Self I sing”
10. The Scarlet Letter
Ⅱ. Fill in the following blanks. (10%)
1. In the novel , Hemingway described the dignity and courage of the common people during the Spanish Civil War.
2. was a great inventor, diplomat, and founding father of the United States of America.
3. , the earliest well-known American naturalist writer, wrote a novel about the American Civil War.
4. With the publication of The Sun Also Ris, Hemingway became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “ ”.
5. ____________________, writing well before the Modern Poetry movements of the 20th century, is often considered the “father of modern poetry.”
Ⅲ. Choo only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (15%)
平安wifi of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true
AIt is an early expression of naturalist writing.
BIt is full of symbolism.
CIt is argues the distinction between “sins of passion” and “sins of principle”
DIt is considered a “romance” by its writer becau it shows fantastic events and does not limit itlf to strict, literal reality.
Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______.我想成为一名老师
A International theme
BWaste-land imagery
C Local color
D Symbolism
3. _____ was known as the founder of the American short story.
A Washington Irving
BMark Twain
舌尖上的中国观后感 C Jack London
D O. Henry
三英二云 Pound, Hilda Dolittle and Amy Lowell help found and promote a movement in Modern Poetry known as _______.
A French symbolism
BThe Beat Generation
C confessional poetry
D Imagism
Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the venties and eighties of the 19thcentury.
A ntimentalism
Bromanticism
C realism
D naturalism
Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his u of __ , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme.
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A blank ver
Bheroic couple
C free ver
D iambic pentameter
Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as _______.
A The Jazz Age
BThe Gilded Age
C The Roaring Age
D The Beat Age
wrote a ries of historical novels t in the American Midwest and was known as “the American Sir Walter Scot.”
A Nathaniel Hawthorne
BMary Renalt
C Stephan Crane
D James Fenimore Cooper
’s ideal hero, who faced life, fate and death courageously, can be called the __ .
A “lost generation” man
Bmodern man
C natural man
D true individual
doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _______and Thoreau.
A Jefferson
BEmerson
C Freneau
D Over-soul
of the following writers influenced the development of French symbolist poetry
A Walt Whitman
BEdgar Allen Poe
C Ezra Pound
D Robert Frost
famous graduation speech turned Transcendentalism into a major intellectual and literary movement
A The American Scholar
BThe Divinity School Address
C The Conduct of Life
D Reprentative Men
her poems were never published in her lifetime and a complete collection of them didn’t appear until the 1950’s, _____ had a major impact on 20th century poetry.
A Anne Bradstreet
BGertrude Stein
C Emily Dickinson
D 初中生世界Amy Lowell
of the following fiction writers wanted to always live an active, masculine life and committed suicide in 1961, when he was too old to do so any more
A Mark Twain
BErnest Hemingway
C Stephen Crane
D Jack London
of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet
A Ezra Pound
BAmy Lowell
C Edgar Allan Poe
D Robert Frost
IV. Decide whether the statements are true or fal. (10%)
1. All his literary life, Hawthorne emed to be haunted by his n of sin and evil in life.
2. Transcendentalism, in exalting feeling over reason and individual expression over the restraints of law and custom, very much reflects the spirit of Romanticism.
3. The sound of Whitman’s words casts a magic, romantic spell over readers. His tone is awesome, sad and melancholy.
