美国文学练习册大题
Romantic Peroid
1. Time grew wor and wor with RipVan winkle as years of matrimonyrolled on : a tart temper never mellows with age , and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by constant u . For a long while he ud to console himlf , when driven from home , by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village .
A. Identify the author and the title of the work..
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B. What’s the meaning of this passage?
A. Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle听雨季羡林
B. With his wife’s dominance at home , the situation became harder and harder for Rip Van Winkle. His wife’s temper became wor and she scolded him mor ofthen .He had to stay in the club with other idle people .
2. A lime in long array wher they wind betwixt green islands , They take a rpentine cour , their arms flash in the sun-hark to the musical clank, Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing hors literng stop to drink Behold the brown-faced men , each group , each person , a picture , the negligent rest on the saddles , Some emerge on the opposite bank , others are just entering the ford-while Scarlet and blue snowy white , the guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind .
A.Who is the author of this poem ?
B.What is the esnce of this poem?
C.What is the unique character in this poem ?
A. Walt Whitman
B. Itreminds its reader of a picture of a scene of the American Civil War.
C. ①All the movements described in this picture are frozen .
②While sounds are depicted, it’s more likely that they come out of the watcher’s imagination, rather than from the picture itlf.
3. My tongue , evry atom of my blood, form’d from this soil , this air ,Born here of arents born here from parents the same , and their parents the same , I , now thirty-ven years old in perect health begin, Hoping to cea not till death .
A.Name the title that the poem had ud when published.
B.What does”soil”or “air”stand for ?
C.What idea do the above four lines ?
A.“Song of Mylf””Poemof Walt Whitman”,”an American”and “Walt Whitman”
B.America, his country , his native land
C.The author implied that I was born and nurtured by this land and shall from now on devote my whole life to the country 如何祛湿
Questions and Anrs.
I. Emerson is generally known as an essayist. What’s the style of his pros?
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流程控制Emerson ‘s essays often have a casual style , for most of them were derived from his journals of lectures.
They are usually characterized by a ries of short , declarative ntences, which are not quite logically connected but will flower out into illustrative statements of truth and thoughts. Emerson’s philosophical discussion is sometimes difficult to understand but the us comparisons and metaphors to make the general idea of his work clearly expresd.
Well-read in the classics ofWestern European literature , Emerson often employed the literary sources to make and enrich his own points but never let them take the full reins of his discussion .
In general , Emerson was showing to the world a distinctive American style , as he
called for in The American Scholar in 1837.
II. Why is Hawthorne regarded a master of symbolism?牡丹亭作者
Hawthorne is a master of symbolism , which the took from the Puritan tradition and bequeathed to american literature in a revivified form . the symbol can be found everywhere in his works . The letter”A “in “The Scarlet Letter”is a good example .
Disscussion
III. Give a brief analysis of the theme and the artistic features of Herman Melville’s “Moby-dick”
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“Moby Dick”, the first American pro epic, is about Ahab, a man with an obsssion to kill the whale which has cripped him , on board his ship in cha of the big whale , but it turned out to be a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the univer , aspiritual exploration into man, deep reality and psychology .Symbolism is the important means for the theme . Besides , Melvi
lle’s gifts of language, invention , psychological analysis, speculative agility and narrative power are fud to make the novel aworld classic.
IV. Whitman is a giant of American Lettrs . Discuss Whitman’s art of poem , the language , the characters, etc.
Whitman’s poetic style is marked by the of the poetic”I”.
What he prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “free ver”, that is , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
Whitman’s poetry is relatively simple and even rather crude .
Most of the pictures he painted with words are honest , undistorted images of diffeent aspects of America of the day .
Realistic peroid
1. the Eyes around-had wrung then dry- And Breaths were gathering firm For that last O
nt-when the king Be witnesd- in the Room-
A. What is the meaning of the first line ?
B .What does”the king refer to ?
c. What idea does the poem from which this stanza is taken express?”
A. the relatives and friends had cried and cried so that there were no tears any more .
