美国文学期中试题
(The Literature of Realism)
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1. Realism had originated in the country _ _France as a literary doctrine that called for "reality and truth" in the depiction of ordinary life.
2. The arbiter of nineteenth century literary realism in America was William Dean Howells
3. _Henry Jams_ probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters, writing in a rich and intricate style that supported his inten scrutiny of complex human experience.
4. _Mark Twain_ , breaking out of the narrow limits of local color fiction, described the breadth of American experience as no one had ever done before, or since.
5. _Darwinism_ had an evident influence on naturalism. It emed to stress the animality of man, to suggest that he was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution.
6. The poetic style Walt Whitman devid is now called _free ver语法错误__ , that is poetry
without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
7. In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass, _Walt Whitman_ gave America its first genuine epic poem.
8. There is no doubt that the solitary Emily Dickinson of _名人访谈Amherst__, Massachutts , is a poet of great power and beauty.
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9. There was only one female pro writer in the nineteenth century. That
was_Harriet Beecher Stowe
10. Harriet Beecher Stowe' s masterpiece is Uncle Tom’s Cabin_ .
11. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name Mark Twain_.
12. One of Samuel Langhorne Clemens' best bookstouchpad是什么意思 Life on the Mississippi is built around his experiences as a steamboat pilot.
13. The result of Mark Twain' s European trip was a ries of newspaper articles, later published as a book called Innocents Abroad_ .
14. Mark Twain__ was the first literary giant born west of the Mississippi.
15. Mark Twain's work The Mysterious Stranger tells of the visits of an angel to the village of Eldorf in Austria in 1590.
16. William Sidney Porter, who pen name was _O.Henry_ , was the author of The Cop and the Anthem.
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17. Many of O. Henry's stories tell about the life of poor people in distance是什么意思_New York_
18. 0. Henry sympathized with the poor's lot and hated tho rich who exploited and
despid them. This is especially en in his story entitled _An Unfinishedtory_
19. It is said that O. Henry imitated a French author named De Maupassant as a model, and there is indeed much in common between the two writers.
20. The title of one of O. Henry' s books The Four Millions_ indicates that he considered all the people of New York City worth writing about, instead of only the upper class.
21. Henry James' first novel is pumpkin是什么意思Watch and ward_ , which failed to make him famous.
22. The novel which was described by an American critic as "an outrage to American
girlhood" is Henry James' same to youDaisy Miller_ .
23. Henry James' first important fiction was A passionate Pilgrim__ , in which he took up for the first time the theme of The American in Europe.
24. In 1881, Henry James published his novel _The portrait of a Lady___ , which is generally considered as his masterpiece.
25. Henry Jams__ is considered the founder of Psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.
26. The name of the heroine in The Portrait of a Lady is _Isabel Archer_ .
27. In 1902 Jack London published his first novel A Daughter of The Snows__.
28. _Martin Eden__ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himlf.
29. The first novel of Theodore Dreir was _Sister Carrie____ .
30. The identification of potency with money is at the heart of Theodore Dreir's
Masterpiece An American Tragedy_ .
31. The protagoniswof Theodore Dreir's Trilogy of Desire is _Frank Cowperwood
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32. Theodore Dreir visited the Soviet Union in 1927 and published Dreir Looks at Russia he following year.
33. Theodore Dreir's novel Sister Carrie_ , a commercial and critical failure when first published in 1900, was reissued in 1907 and won high prai for its grim, naturalistic portrayal of American society.
here to stay34. Mark Twain' s first novel, The Gilded Age__ was an artistic failure, but it gave its name to the America of the postbellum period which it attempts to satirize.
35. Three years' life on the Mississippi left such a fond memory with Mark Twain that
