美国文学史0841A

( )2. American Romantic period stretches from the end of the eighteenth century through the outbreak of the Civil War.
( )3.New England Transcendentalism was a main literary stream in romantic period and also the summit of American Romanticism.
13.__________combined traditional verse forms with a clear American local speech rhythm,forming his own characteristic.
14.Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel__________.
( )16.The North American literature began with the settlement of the English puritans.
( )17.Hardworkthrift,piety and sobriety,thesewere the puritan values that dominated much of theearlyAmerican writing.
II.Match the following information:10%(1，×10)
1.WashingtonIrvinga.The Fall of the House of Usher
2.James Fenimore Cooper b.Sister Carrie
3.Edgar Allan Poe c.Moby-Dick
5.__________can somewhat be called“the Father of the American detective story”.
6.Henry __________probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters, writing in a rich and intricate style that supposed his intense scrutiny of complex human experience.
7.__________is considered the founder of Psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.
8.In 1902Londonpublished his first novel __________.
A.Charitist Movement B.p;Romanticist Movement
C.Enlightenment Movement D.Modernist Movement
( )12.Early in the 1920s, the most prominent of the new American playwrights,whose name is EugeneO，Neill,established an international reputation.
( )13.Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “impressionism”movement.
( )18.Jonathan Edwards，masterpiece is Common Sense.
( )19.The Declaration ofIndependence is a highly effective piece of prose.
( )20.Thomas Paine,Franklin and Freneauare the representatives of American revolutionary literature.
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IVMultiple Choice：20% (1,×20)
1.At the Reason and Revolution period, Americanswere influenced by the European movement called the__________.
18.In 1925,Fitzgerald wrote his best novel__________.It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy,pleasure-seeking people around him.
19.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises,__________became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called“the lost generation”.
20.In 1954,Hemingway was awarded a __________for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.
课程名称英美文学史（II）考（查）___A___（卷）
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I.True & False statement.(1’，×20)
( )1.In American literature,he eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment.Humanism was the dominant spirit
15.The __________County is a legendary kingdom created by Faulkner.
16.Ezra Pound，s major work of poetry is the long poem called___________.
17.William Faulkner，s works mainly concern the American__________
9.Henry James i.A Farewell to Arms
10.Jack London j.The American Scholar
III. Blank Filling：20% (1，×20)
1.Thomas Paine,with his natural gift for pamphleteering and rebellion, was appropriately born into an age of __________.
( )6.The realistic period in American literature ranges from 1865 to 1914.
( )7.Wth Howells,James and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,realism became a major trend in the eighties and nineties of the 19thcentury.
9.An American Tragedy is a masterpiece by___________.
10.In the late nineteenth century, although Americans continued to read the works of Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne and Poe, the great age of American __________had ended.
( )4.Leaves of Grass establishedDickinsonas the most popular American poet of the 19thcentury.
( )5.Hawthorne was regarded as Father of the American short stories.
( )8. Mark Twain is regarded as “the true father of our nationalliterature”.
()9.An American Tragedy is a masterpiece by Henry James.
( )10.Crane，s novel Maggie:A Girl of the Streets relates the story ofa good
4.Ralph Waldo Emerson d.Main Street
5.Herman Melvillee.The Sea Wolf
6.Theodore Dreiser f.Leatherstocking Tales
7.Ernest Hemingwayg.The Ambassadors
8.Sinclair Lewis h.The legend of Sleepy