英美文学(2)期末复习题-

英美文学（2）期末复习题

I.Choose the one that would best complete the statement.

1.The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in

________.

A. The Scarlet Letter

B. Young Goodman Brown

C. The Marble Faun

D. The House of the Seven Gables

2.Mark Twain created, in ______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the

great books of world literature.

A.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

B.Life on the Mississippi

C.Innocents Abroad

D.The Gilded Age

3.“The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind” this is the title of one chapter in Dreiser’s novel

______.

A. An American Tragedy

B. Sister Carrie

C. Dreiser Looks at Russia

D. Jannie Gerhardt

plete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase.

1. T. S. Eliot’s most important single poem __________ has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry.

2. _____________ was regarded as an early Romantic writer in the American literary history and Father of the American short stories.

3. Most of Faulkner’s works are set in the ____________, with his emphasis on the Southern subjects and consciousness.

4. For the character ________, the white whale, Moby Dick, represents only evil.

III.Define the literary terms listed below.

1. New England Transcendentalism

IV.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.

1. “We paused before a House that seemed

A Swelling of the Ground –

The Roof was scarcely visible –

The Cornice—in the Ground –”

V.Give brief answers to the following questions.

1. What is Henry James’ narrative “point of view”?