自考英美文学选读00604考前串讲(10)

英美文学考前串讲（9）

American Literature

Chapter 3 The Modern Period

I. Choose the right answer:

1. Ezra Pound is a leading spokesman of the_________.

A. Imagist Movement

B. Chartist Movement

C. Modernist Movement

D. Romantic Movement

Answer: A (P553)

2. Strong affinity of the Chinese and Oriental literature can be found in the works of_________.

A. Mark Twain

B. Ezra Pound

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Arthur Miller

Answer: B (P556)

3. In Robert Frost’s famous poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", there are four lines like these: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep,/ And miles to go before I sleep”. The second sleep refers to______.

A. die

B. calm down

C. fall into sleep

D. stop walking

Answer: A (P567)

4. Of the following American poets, whose work was first recognized in England and then in America?

A. Robert Frost

B. Walt Whitman

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Wallace Stevens

Answer: A (P561)

5. "For I have had too much/ Of apple-picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired" From these lines we can conclude that the speaker __________.

A. is happy about the harvest

B. is tired of the work of apple-picking

C. is not tired when seeing the harvest

D. becomes indifferent of the job

Answer: B (P565)

6. In these lines "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough", Ezra Pound uses the figure of speech of ________.

A. metaphor

B. simile

C. hyperbole

D. contrast

Answer: A (P557)

7. O’Neill’s inventiveness seemingly knew no limits. He was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when ______was in full swing.

A. Symbolism

B. Expressionism

C. Romanticism

D. Realism

Answer: B (P571)

8. "He got me, aw right. I’m trou. Even him didn’t tink I belonged." In these sentences taken from ’The Hairy Ape’, the words “he” and “him” both refer to__________.

A. Yank

B. God

C. The ape in the zoo

D. A person unnamed

Answer: B (P575)

9. ______is a school of modern painting, whose emphasis is on the formal structure of a work of art and especially on the multiple-perspective viewpoints.

A. Expressionism

B. Impressionism

C. Cubism

D. Imagism

Answer: C (P546)

10. In a class which discuss the Imagist Movement in the United States, we will definitely NOT include________.

A. William Carlos Williams

B. Ezra Pound

C. Gary Snyder

D. Wallance Stevens

Answer: C (P547-548)

11. In which of the following poems by Ezra Pound did you find the allusion to Wi-shang? ____________

A. In a Station of the Metro