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