美国文学赏析复习

美国文学赏析

1.连线题

Group 1 作家作品连线

Column A Column B

( ) 1. T. S. Eliot a. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ( ) 2. Wallace Stevens b. Sister Carrie

( ) 3. Theodore Dreiser c.The Oversoul

( ) 4. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Anecdote of the Jar

( ) 5. Robert Frost e. The Waste Land

Group 2 作品中人物与作品连线

Column A Column B

( ) 1. Benjy a. Sister Carrie

( ) 2. George Hurstwood b. The Sound and the Fury

( ) 3. Emily c. Mrs Warren’s Profession

( ) 4. Vivie d. A Rose for Emily

( ) 5. Jim e. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“God help men that help themselves(上帝帮助那些帮助自己的人)” is found in Franklin work.

A.Paine

B. Franklin(富兰克林)

C. Freneau

D. Jefferson

From 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous (本杰明·富兰克林撰写并发表他著名的)_____, an annal(年表、编年史) collection of proverbs.（谚语）

A.The Autobiography

B. Poor Richard’s Almanac(可怜的李察年鉴)

C. Common Sense D .The General Magazine

______ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.(是最主要的精神超越的俱乐部)

A.Henry David Thoreau

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson(拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生)

C. Nathanial Hawthorne

D. Walt Whitman

Transcendentalists（超验主义者）recognized ________ as the “highest power of the soul”.(先验论者承认直觉是灵魂的最高权力)

A. Intuition(直觉)

B. logic

C. data of the senses

D. thinking

The common thread throughout American literature has an emphasis on the ________.

(共同的主线贯穿美国文学有一个强调个人主义)

A.Revolution

B. Reason

C. Individualism(个人主义)

D. Rationalism

The publication of ________ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.

(出版性质建立了爱默生最雄辩的发言人的新英格兰超验。)

A. Nature (性质)

B. Self-reliance

C.The American Scholar

D. The Over-soul

There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually

______ on the Puritan soil.

(有一个很好的理由,新英格兰先验论实际上是浪漫主义的清教徒的土壤。)

A. Romanticism(浪漫主义)

B. Puritanism （清教主义）

C. Mysticism （神秘主义）

D. Unitarianism （实用主义）

In the history of literature, Romanticism is regarded as _______.

(历史上的文学，浪漫主义被认为是)

A.the thought that designates（标出、定名为）a literary and philosophical theory which tends to

see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience.

(认为指定一个文学和哲学理论倾向于把个体为中心的所有生活和经验。)

B.The thought that designates man as a social animal

C.The orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in common

D.The modes of thinking

Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ______ language.

（马克吐温写了他的大部分文学作品是用乡土语言）

A.Grand

B. pompous

C. simple

D. Vernacular(方言)

Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _______. （马克吐温,美国19世纪最伟大的作家之一,是众所周知的地方色彩）

A. international theme

B. waste-land imagery

C. local color （地方色彩）

D. symbolism

The Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to as ______.

（现实主义的时代也是马克吐温称为“镀金时代）

A.the golden age

B. the silver age

C.the gilded age（镀金时代）

D. the roaring age

The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American _________.

（达尔文的进化理论的影响对美国思想和19世纪法国文学的影响在美国文人催生了另一个学校的现实主义:美国自然主义）

A. modernism

B. Naturalism（自然主义）

C. Vernacularism

D. local colorism

Which of the following figures does not belong to “The Lost Generation”?

（不属于下列哪个人物迷惘的一代吗）

A. Ezra Pound

B. William Carlos Williams