(0171)《美国文学史及选读》复习思考题

（0171）《美国文学史及选读》复习思考题

I. Write out the authors’ names of the following works. (15)

1. Poor Richard’s Almanac

2. The Wasteland

3. The Pioneers

4. The Leaves of Grass

5. Go Tell it on the Mountain

6. For Whom the Bell Tolls?

7. Catch 22 8. Of Mice and Men

9. The Sound and the Fury 10.Huck Finn

11. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 12. The Old Man and the Sea

13. Mending Walls 14. Beloved

15. Invisible Man 16. Beyond the Horizons

17. Of Mice and Men 18. The Raven

19. The Great Gatsby 20. The Streetcar Named Desire

21. Rip van Winkle 22. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 23. The Scarlet Letter 24. Moby Dick

25. Desire Under the Elms 26. The Gilded Age

27. The Sound and Fury 28. The Road Not Taken

29. The Death of a Salesman 30. The Pathfinder

31. Walden 32. Daisy Miller

33. Song of Myself 34. The Call of the Wild

35. Martin Eden 36. Long Day’s Journey into Night

II. Define the following literary terms. (20)

1. Beat Generation

2. Protagonist

3. Biography

4. Novel

5. Anti-hero

6. Free V erse

7. Drama 8. Jazz Age

9. Biography 10. Blank V erse

11. Black Humor 12. Head Rhyme

13. Surprise ending 14. Transcendentalism

15. Imagery 16. Stream of Consciousness

17. Lost Generation 18. Short story

III. Give brief answers to the following questions. (15)

1.Who is the father of American literature?

2.Who is the father of American poetry?

3.What is Poe’s theory concerning poetry?

4.What is Poe’s theory concerning the short story?

5.What are the major characteristics of Twain’s writing style?

6.What are the major characteristics of Irving’s writing style?

7.What is “black humor?

8.What is the Harlem Renaissance?

9.What is the New England Renaissance?

10.What are the major characteristics of colonial American literature?

11.What is the Lost Generation?

12.What are Benjamin Franklin’s contributions to American culture?

13.Why is colonial American literature neither American nor literary?

14.What is the Jazz Age?

15.What is American transcendentalism?

16.What is imagism?

17.What is O. Henry Ending?

18.What is free verse?

IV. Read the following poem and try to understand and explain it.

(20)

Fog

THE FOG comes

On little cat feet.

It sits looking

Over harbor and city

On silent haunches

And then moves on

In a Station of the Metro

(Ezra Pound)

The Apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.

(Consult your book)

The Road Not T aken

(By Robert Frost)

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, Though as for that, the passing there

Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Y et knowing how way leads to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference. (Consult your book)