美国文学选段分析题

美国文学选段分析题

Passage 1

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,

I learn and loa, fe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. Questions:

1.These are the first two stanzas in the first section of a long poem

entitled

2.The name of the poet is___________ .

3.Who is the poet celebrating? Whom do lines 2 ~ 3 also include in the

celebration?

4.What is the verse structure?

5.Take the fifth line as a hint, can you write out the name of the poet' s

completed collections of poems?

Passage 2

Because I could not stop for Death—

He kindly stopped for me—

The Carriage held but just Ourselves—

Questions:

1.Who is the writer of these lines?

2.In which category would you place this poem?

A. narrative

B. dramatic

C. lyric

3.Emily Dickinson is noted for her use of_____________ to achieve

special effects.

∙ A. perfect rhyme B. exact rhyme C. slant rhyme

Passage 3

∙It is impossible to conceive of a human creature more wholly desolate and forlorn than Eliza, when she turned her footsteps from Uncle

Tom' s cabin.

Questions:

1.This is taken from a famous novel. What is the name of the novel?

2.What is the name of the writer?

3.Who is Uncle Tom?

Passage 4

∙Tom Sawyer stepped forward with conceited confidence and soared into the unquenchable and indestructible "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, with fine fury and frantic gesticulation, and broke

down in the middle of it. A ghastly stage fright seized him, his legs

quaked under him, and he was like to choke. True, he had the

manifest sympathy of the house----------- but he had the house' s

silence, too, which was even worse than its sympathy. The master

frowned, and this completed the disaster. Tom struggled awhile and

then retired, defeated.

Questions:

1.Which novel is this passage taken from?

2.Who is the author?

Passage 5

∙I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved t, he vines and branches apart and put it in; then I done

the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug. I took all the

coffee and suga, r there was, and all the ammunition; I took the

wadding; I took the bucket and gourd; took a dipper and a tin cup,

and my old saw and two blankets, and the skillet and the coffee-pot. I took fish-lines and matches and other things—everything that was

worth a cent. I cleaned out the place. I wanted an ax, but there wasn' t any, only the one out at the woodpile, and 1 knew why I was going to leave that. I fetched out the gun, and now I was done.

Questions:

1.Which novel is this passage taken from?

2.Analyse the language style of this passage.

Passage 6

∙On his bench in Madison Square, Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk high of nights, and when women without sealskin coats

grow kind to their husbands, and when Soapy moves uneasily on his

bench in the park, you may know that winter is near at hand.