英美文学考题-

英美文学

I.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.

1、The Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States refers to the period from

____to____.

A. 1861...1914 B. 1863 (1918)

C. 1865...1914 D. 1865 (1918)

2、____is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary history of the

United States.

A. Henry James

B. Emily Dickinson

C. William Dean Howells

D. Mark Twain

3、The impact of ____on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French

literature on the American of letters gave rise to American naturalism.

A. Darwin’s evolutionary theory

B. Marxist theory

C. Transcendentalism

D. Puritanism

4、____is not the work of Mark Twain.

A. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

B. Adventures of Tom Sawyer

C. Life on the Mississippi

D. The Mill on the Floss

5、Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is against____.

A. British colonists

B. slavery

C. chauvinism

D. monocracy

II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook .

1、The Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to as “____”.

2、While Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life ” of the

Americans, Henry James had apparently laid greater emphasis on the ____ of man.

3、The works of Mark Twain are characterized with ____.

4、In 1859, Darmin published____, which exerted great influence on American Naturalism.

5、____is regarded as “the true father of our national literature”.

6、Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is famous for its characterization of ____.

7、____and the West became Twain’s major theme.

8、In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain makes sharp contrasts between____.

9、Henry James won his literary reputation for his novels of ____.

10、James’s realism is characterized by his ____ approach to his subject matter.

III. decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets

1、“Local Colorism” is a unique variation of American literary romanticism. ( )

2、The Portrait of A Lady is one of the representative works of Henry James. ( )

3 Keats is one of the “Lake Poets”. ()

4、Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published posthumously. ( )

5、Darmin’s impact of the idea “survival of the fittest” on Dreiser is great. ( )

IV. Name the author of the following literary works.

1.The Gilded Age

2.“This is my letter to the world”

V. Define the literary terms listed below

1.Local color

2.Naturalism

3.Darwinism

VI. 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. Because I could not stop for death---

He kindly stopped foe me---

The carriage held but just ourselves---

And immortality

2.The young lady inspected her flounces and smoothed her ribbons again; and winterbourne presently risked an observation on the beauty of the view. he was ceasing to be indoubt,for he had begun to perceive that she was really not in the least embarrassed. She might be cold, she might be austere, she might even be prim; for that was apparently---he had already so generalized—what the most “distant” America n girls did: they came and planted themselves straight in front of you to show how rigidly unapproachable they were. there had not been the slightest flush in her fresh fairness however; so that she was clearly neither offended not fluttered.

VII. Short easy question

Give a brief analysis of Huck, a character in mark twain’s adventures of huckleberry finn, and discuss the social importance of the characterization of this character.