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I. Choo the best answer to each of the following questions.
1.The first American writer is ___________.
a. John Cotton
b. John Winthrop
c. John Smith
d. Anne Bradstreet
2.In the direct line of Metaphysical Poets, _________ is considered the best of
Puritan poets and his works were hailed as the finest 17th century American ver.
a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
b. Edgar Allen Poe
c. William Cullen Bryant
d. Edward Taylor
3.“We hold the truths to be lf-evident, that all men are cr eated equal, …” is a
quotation from __________ drafted by ______________.
a. The American Crisis, Thomas Jefferson
b. The American Crisis, Thomas Paine
c. The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine
d. The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson
4.______________ was called the “Father of American Poetry”.
a. Edward Taylor
b. William Cullen Bryant
c. Edgar Allen Poe
d. Philip Freneau
5.____________ was the first great pro stylist of American romanticism.
a. Nathaniel Hawthorne
b. Edgar Allen Poe
c. Washington Irving
d. James Fennimore Cooper
6.In the five novels that compri the Leatherstocking Tales, the central figure,
________, goes the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder, and Hawkeye.
a. Chingakgook
b. David Gamut
c. Natty Bumppo
d. Uncas
7.The publication of ___________ written by _________introduced the most
eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism to American literature.
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b. Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. Walden, Henry David Thoreau
d. Walden, Ralph Waldo Emerson
8._____________ was written to show that the conquences of a sin cannot be
escaped and that many different lives are influenced by one wrong deed.
a. Nathaniel Hawthorne
b. Herman Mellville
c. James Fennimore Cooper
d. Washington Irving
9.__________ was the first American writer to have a bust to be placed in the Poets’
Corner at Westminster Abbey.
a. William Wordsworth
b. Edgar Allen Poe
c. William Cullen Bryant
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10.In a n, we can say that Romanticism designates a literary and philosophical
theory, which tends to e the ___________ as the very center of all life and all experience.
a. society
b. individual
c. family
d. country life
11.“He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs,
hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have rved for shovels, and his whole frame most looly hung together.” The description is about __________.
a. Brom Van Brunt
b. Rip Van Winkle
c. Ichabod Crane
d. Katrina Van Tasl
12.Herman Melville was very much influenced by _________, who he called “the
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largest brain with the largest heart” in America Litera ture.
a. Nathaniel Hawthorne
b. Edgar Allen Poe
c. Washington Irving
d. James Fennimore Cooper
13.In The Last of the Mohicans, the last of the Mohicans refers to _____________.
a. David Gamut
b. Chigachgook
c. Magua
d. Uncas
14. ___________ consists of an unstresd syllable followed by a stresd one.
a. Iamb
b. Trochee
c. Dactyl
d. Spondee
15.Among the following short stories, which one is NOT written by Nathaniel
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a. Ethan Brand
b. The Great Stone Face
c. Rapaccini's Daughter
d. Bartleby the Scrivener
II. Explain the following terms briefly in English.
1.Refrain
2.American Puritanism
3.New England Transcendentalism
4.Familiar essay
5.Allegory
III. Arrange in pairs.
Directions: Column A consists of ten writers, plea find their corresponding works in Column B and write the answer on the Anwer Sheet.
IV. Try to decide whether the following statements are true or fal. Plea write “T” for “true” and “F” for “fal ”.1.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a story about a man who falls into a sleep of 20
years while out hunting during which the Revolutionary War takes place.
2.Bartleby the Scrivener is one of Herman Melville’s short stories.
3.The Song of Hiawatha is the first American epic about the American Indians.
4.The Birthmark us the background of witchcraft to explore uncertainties of belief
that trouble a man’s heart and mind.
5.Edgar Allen Poe has often been regarded as the father of modern short story.
V. Read the following passages and complete the tasks according to the specific requirements
1.Standing on the bareground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into
infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I e all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.
a.Identify the author and the work from which the quotation is lected.
b.What does “the Universal Being” refer to? What is the relation between the
individual and the Universal Being? Explain with regard to the author’s philosophical ideas.
2.Another peculiar torture was felt in the gaze of a new eye. When strangers looked
curiously at the scarlet letter, - and none ever failed to do so, - they branded it afresh into Hester’s soul; so that, oftentimes, she could scarcely refrain, yet always did refrain, from covering the symbol with her hand.
a.Identify the author and the work from which the quotation is lected.
b.What is the character’s full name? What does “the symbol” refer to? Does it
change its meaning for him/ her through out the whole story?
3.Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
a.Identify the author and the work from which the quotation is lected.
b.Analyze the poem from at least three of the following aspects: structure,
rhyme scheme, tone, theme and figures of speech ud with regard to the
stanza lected.
VI. Answer the following questions
1.Discuss the symbolism in Moby Dick.
2.What are Edgar Allen Poe’s criteria for writing short stories?
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I.Choo the best answer to each of the following questions.
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II.Explain the following terms briefly in English.
1.Refrain: one or more words repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the
end of a stanza. The most regular is the u of the same line at the clo of each stanza.
2.American Puritanism stresd predestination, original sin, total depravity,
and limited atonement from God’s grace. It was influenced heavily by Calvinism. With such doctrines in their mind Puritans left Europe for America in order to prove that they were God’s chon people who would enjoy God’s blessings on earth and in Heaven. Over the years in the new homeland, they built a way of life that stresd hard work, thrift, piety, and sobriety.
3.New England Transcendentalism was the first American intellectual
movement. Transcendental club became the movement’s center with its magazine The Dial. It was a system of thought that originated from many
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sources, mainly Idealistic philosophy. It stresd the power of intuition, spirit and the individual. It envisioned religion as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal “oversoul”. It was reprented by two major writers of the country, Emerson and Thoreau who writings had great impact in the country.
4.Familiar essay is the more personal, intimate type of informal essay. It deals
lightly, often humorously, with personal experiences, opinions, and prejudices, stressing especially th
e unusual or novel, and having to do with the varied aspects of everyday life.
5. Allegory is a story or image with a cond distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning.
III.Arrange in pairs.
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IV.Try to decide whether the following statements are true or fal. Plea write “T” for “true” and “F” for “fal ”
1-5: F T T F T
V.Read the following passages and complete the tasks according to the specific requirements
1. a. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
b. One of Emerson’s philosophy is the importance of the individual. In the passage, he is affirmative about man’s intuitive knowledge, with which a man can trust himlf to decide what is right and to ac
t accordingly. There is an emotional communication between an individual and the all-pervading power from which all things come from and of which all are a part. He means to convince people that the possibilities for man to develop and improve himlf are infinite.
2. a. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
b. Hester Prynne; The symbol refers to the scarlet letter A which refers to her
sin of adultery; at the very beginning of the romance, the letter “A” symbolizes the act of adultery to Dimmesdale , but towards the end of the story, it symbolizes Angel to the other people in the community.
3. a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life
b. The poem is written in quatrains, with a rhyme scheme of abab and each line in iambic tetrameter. The tone is optimisti
c. Figures of speech ud are alliteration, parallel structure and repetition. It stress the importance of a full and sincere activity in making the most of life’s brief span, rather than succumbing to moods of vain regret or dejection.
VI.Answer the following questions
1.
①Herman Melville is a master of symbols, that is, objects or persons who
reprent something el.
②Different people on board the ship are reprentations of different ideas and
different social and ethnic groups; facts become symbols and incidents acquire universal meanings.
③Ishmael , the narrator of the story, is symbolic of a wanderer or displaced
person who is wandering in the world and fails to find out the real meaning of the world.
④Ahab, symbolic of the Jewish king who started worship of Pagan gods,
suffers both psychological and physical damage inflicted by life in a harsh world that eventually destroys him.
⑤The Pequod is the microcosm of human society and the voyage becomes a
arch for truth.
⑥Queequeg’s Coffin alternately symbolizes life and death. Queequeg has it
built when he is riously ill, but when he recovers, it becomes a chest to hold his belongings and an emblem of his will to live. The coffin further
comes to symbolize life, in a morbid way, when it replaces the Pequod’s li fe buoy. When the Pequod sinks, the coffin becomes Ishmael’s buoy, saving not only his life but the life of the narrative that he will pass on.
⑦The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes nature for Melville, for it is
complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well. For the character Ahab, however, the whale reprents only evil. Moby Dick is like a wall, hiding some unknown, mysterious things behind. Ahab wills the whole crew on the Pequod to join him in the pursuit of the big whale so as to pierce the wall, to root out the evil, but only to be destroyed by evil, in this ca, by his consuming desire, his madness. For the author, as well as for the reader and Ishmael, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the univer, inscrutable and ambivalent, and the voyage of the mind will forever remain
a arch not a discovery of the truth.
2.
① A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wi, he has not fashioned
his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents,--he then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. If his very initial ntence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition there should be no word written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one pre-established design."
②Although beauty is the aim of poems, truth is the aim of tales.
③Tales can deal with terror, passion, horror, humor, sarcasm, wit, and
ratiocination.
④The merit of a work of art should be judged by its psychological effect upon
the reader.
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I. Choo the best answer to each of the following questions.
1.Written by William Cullen Bryant, __________, is called by the eminent English
critic and poet, Mathew Arnold, the “most perfect brief poem in the language”.
a. To a Waterfowl
b. To Helen
c. Thanatopsis
d. The Wild Honey Suckle
2.The first American writer is ___________.
a. John Cotton
b. John Winthrop
c. John Smith
d. Anne Bradstreet
3.According to ______________, the most poetical topic is the death of a beautiful
woman.
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a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
b. Edgar Allen Poe
c. William Cullen Bryant
d. Edward Taylor
4.“We hold the truths to be lf-evident, that all men are created equal, …” is a
quotation from __________ drafted by ___________.
a. The American Crisis, Thomas Jefferson
b. The American Crisis, Thomas Paine
c. The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine
d. The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson
5.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle are the two most famous short
stories from Washington Irving’s ____________.
a. Bracebridge Hall
b. The Sketch Book
c. A History of New York
d. Twice-Told Tales
6.______________ was called the “Father of American Poetry”.
a. Edward Taylor
b. William Cullen Bryant
c. Edgar Allen Poe
d. Philip Freneau
7._____________ is called by Oliver Wendell Holmes “our intellectual Declaration
of Independence”.
a. The American Scholar
b. Self-Reliance
c. The Divinity School Address
d. Nature
8._______, New England’s Utopia, is the record of ____________’s experiment in
endeavoring to live an ideal life in the forest.
a. Nature, Henry David Thoreau
b. Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. Walden, Henry David Thoreau
d. Walden, Ralph Waldo Emerson
9.____________ is a movement supported by all progressive forces of the country
which oppod themlves to the old colonial order and religious obscurantism.
a. American Romanticism
b. New England Transcendentalism
c. American Puritanism
d. American Enlightenment
10.Among the writers in the Literature of Reason and Revolution, ________ shaped
his writing after the Spectator Papers of the English essayists Joph Addison and Richard Steele.
a. Thomas Jefferson
b. Benjamin Franklin
c. Joel Barlow
d. William Bartram
11.“He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs,
hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have rved for shovels, and his whole frame most looly hung together.” The description is about __________.
a. Brom Van Brunt
b. Rip Van Winkle
c. Ichabod Crane
d. Katrina Van Tasl
12.Herman Melville was very much influenced by _________, who he called "the
largest brain with the largest heart" in America Literature.
a. Nathaniel Hawthorne
b. Edgar Allen Poe
c. Washington Irving
d. James Fennimore Cooper
13.In The Last of the Mohicans, the last of the Mohicans refers to _____________.
a. David Gamut
b. Chigachgook
c. Magua
d. Uncas
14.___________ consists of an unstresd syllable followed by a stresd one.
a. Iamb
b. Trochee
c. Dactyl
d. Spondee
15.Among the following short stories, which one is NOT written by Nathaniel
Hawthorne?
a. Ethan Brand
b. The Great Stone Face
c. Rapaccini's Daughter
d. Bartleby the Scrivener
