（0097）《美国文学史》复习思考题
I. Write out the authors’ names of the following works. (15)
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1. Poor Richard’s Almanac 2. The Wasteland
3. The Pioneers 4. The Leaves of Grass
5. Go Tell it on the Mountain 6. For Whom the Bell Tolls?
7. Catch 22 8. Of Mice and Men
9. The Sound and the Fury 10.Huck Finn
11. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 12. The Old Man and the Sea
13. Mending Walls 14. Beloved
15. Invisible Man 16. Beyond the Horizons
17. Of Mice and Men 18. The Raven
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19. The Great Gatsby 20. The Streetcar Named Desire
21. Rip van Winkle 22. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
23. The Scarlet Letter 24. Moby Dick
25. Desire Under the Elms 26. The Gilded Age
27. The Sound and Fury 28. The Road Not Taken
29. The Death of a Salesman 30. The Pathfinder
31. Walden 32. Daisy Miller
苹果手机修改密码33. Song of Mylf 34. The Call of the Wild
35. Martin Eden 36. Long Day’s Journey into Night
II. Define the following literary terms. (20)
1. Beat Generation 2. Protagonist
3. Biography 4. Novel
5. Anti-hero 6. Free Ver
番茄酱做法7. Drama 8. Jazz Age
9. Biography 10. Blank Ver
11. Black Humor 12. Head Rhyme
13. Surpri ending 14. Transcendentalism
15. Imagery 16. Stream of Consciousness
17. Lost Generation 18. Short story
III. Give brief answers to the following questions. (15)
1.Who is the father of American literature?
2.Who is the father of American poetry?
3.What is Poe’s theory concerning poetry?
4.What is Poe’s theory concerning the short story?
民事诉讼状范文5.What are the major characteristics of Twain’s writing style?
6.What are the major characteristics of Irving’s writing style?
7.What is “black humor?
8.What is the Harlem Renaissance?
9.What is the New England Renaissance?
10.What are the major characteristics of colonial American literature?
11.What is the Lost Generation?
12.What are Benjamin Franklin’s contributions to American culture?
13.Why is colonial American literature neither American nor literary?
14.What is the Jazz Age?
15.What is American transcendentalism?
16.What is imagism?
17.What is O. Henry Ending?
18.What is free ver?
IV. Read the following poem and try to understand and explain it. (30)
Fog
THE FOG comes
On little cat feet.
It sits looking
Over harbor and city
On silent haunches
And then moves on
In a Station of the Metro
(Ezra Pound)
The Apparition of the faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
(Consult your book)
The Road Not Taken
(By Robert Frost)
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.苦瓜茶
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
(Consult your book)
Dreams
(by Langston Hughes)
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
(Consult your book) 幼儿画画
（0097）《美国文学史》复习思考题答案
I. Write out the authors’ names of the following works. (15)
Benjamin Franklin T. S. Eliot
James Cooper Walt Whitman
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James Baldwell Ernest Hemingway
Joph Heller John Steinbeck
William Faulkner Mark Twain
Washington Irving Ernest Hemingway
Robert Frost Toni Morrison
Ralph Ellison Eugene O’Neill
John Steinbeck Allan Poe
F. Scott Fitzgerald Tenne Williams
Washington Irving Robert Frost
Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville
Eugene O’Neill Mark Twain
William Faulkner Robert Frost
Arthur Miller James Cooper
H. D. Thoreau Henry James
Whitman Jack London
Jack London O’Neill
II. Define the following literary terms. (20)
Beat generation: The term was coined by Jack Kerouac in 1948 to refer to a group of disillusioned writers following World War Two. Later, this literary and cultural movement continued into the 1960s. The Beat Generation must not be confud with the Lost Generation of writers. Spokesmen and reprentatives of the Beat Generation were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and others. They revolted against an America that was materialistic, belligerent and frustrating. Social, intellectual and xual freedom was advo
cated. Traditional culture and normal social behavior were attacked and violated. Many of them were drug addicts wearing long hair and dirty clothes. They were fond of slangs and jazz. Masterpieces created by writers of this group include Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems, which were regarded as pocket Bibles of that generation. Other prominent Beats include William S. Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure, and Neal Cassady. The Beat Generation, had greatly influenced the countercultural movements of the 1960s and the adolescents and adults in other countries. In England, the “angry young men” made an echo and imitated the American “beatnik.”
