华南师范大学《美国文学》考试题库(2)及满分答案

华南师范大学《美国文学》考试题库

（2）及满分答案

内容摘要：As a literary movement, American Realism came in the latter half of the nineteeth century, as a reaction against the lie of romanticism.答案:正...

As a literary movement, American Realism came in the latter half of t he nineteeth century, as a reaction against the lie of romanticism.

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The first American poet to be translated into Chinese is Walt Whitman. 答案:错误

A Shakespearean Sonnet is a short poem with fourteen iambic pentamete

r lines rhymed ababcdcdefefgg.

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thoreau was an active transcendentalist who was an escapist ｏr a rec luse detached ｆrom the life of his day.

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The Great Gatsby was a novel written by Fitzgerald partially based on his own life experience.

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american naturalism, like romanticism, had come ｆrom germany.

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“The Purloined Letter” is a detective story.

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Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticea ble.

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Henry David Thoreau once built a cabin beside the lake of Walden on t he land of his neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Poe was a predecessor of the later British detective writer Conan Doy le.

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The most important Southern writer is Robert Penn Warren who was the author of the poem “All the King’s Men”.

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Leatherstocking Tales is a novel of the series The Last of Mohicans w ritten by James Fenimore Cooper.

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John Stwinbeck didn't win a Nobel Prize because he was sympathetic wi th the working class people.

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Cooper’s claim to greatness in American literature lies in the fact that he created a myth about the formative period of the American nat ion.

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The short story writer O.Henry was once put into prison because he wa s a Nazi.

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Though Emily Dickinson married twice in her life, love had never been a major theme in her poetry.

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"Declaration of Independence" was drafted by Benjamin Franklin alone. 答案:错误

The poet Robert Frost wrote in traditional rhyme schemes, but his the mes are very modern.

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An Italian Sonnet is a short poem with fourteen iambic pentameter lin

es rhymed abbaabbacdecde.

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The Second World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disil lusionment, breeding what is called modernism.

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“The Premature Burial” is a detective story written by Poe.

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The foundation of American national literature was laid by the early American romanticists.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was a representative figure of the American Trans cendentalism.

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The Puritan style of writing is characterized by simplicity, which le ft an indelible imprint on American writings.

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Stream of Consciousness is a minor technique that William Faulkner em ployed in his novels.

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Hawthorne, who seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin ａnd veil, ne ver showed a positive part of the life.

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As a novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne was deeply influenced by Puritanis m.

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Emerson’s prose style was sometimes as highly individualistic as his dramas.

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The famous philosopher Williams James was the novelist Henry James' b