美国文学2014在线作业
单选题
第1题 (2.0) 分
The first American writer who propounded that a piece of literary work should focus on the production of a single emotional effect is ___.
A、 Nathaniel Hawthorne
B、Herman Melville
C、Edgar Ellan Poe
第2题 (2.0) 分
Among the following, only one is not a representative feature of O Henry’s short stories. It is _________.
A、 conversational opening
B、improbable coincidence
C、Surprise ending
D、multiple points of view
第3题 (2.0) 分
“all sappy as maples ａnd flat as the prairie” is a comment made by james russell lowell on the female characters in novels written by______.
A、Washington Irving
B、James Fenimore Cooper
C、Philip Freneau
D、George Washington
第4题 (2.0) 分
“I become a transparent eye-ball. i am nothing. i see all. the currents of the universal being circulate through me; i am part ｏr particle of god.” the passage above is quoted ｆrom emerson’s essay __________.
A、The American Scholar
B、Nature
C、Self-Reliance
第5题 (2.0) 分
Among the following novels, only one was not written by Herman Melville. It is _____________.
A、The Confidence-Man
B、The PIlot
C、Moby Dick
第6题 (2.0) 分
Among the four novels written by Henry James, the one written first in chronological order is _________.
A、The Portrait of a Lady
B、The Golden Bowl
C、The Ambassadors
D、 The Wing of the Dove
第7题 (2.0) 分
The author who was famous for his novels of the international theme was ___________.
A、Henry James
B、Mark Twain
C、Theodore Dreiser
D、Stephen Crane
第8题 (2.0) 分
"Two roads diverged in a yellow woods" is a line in a poem written by ---.
A、T. S. Eliot
B、Wallace Stevens
C、Robert Frost
第9题 (2.0) 分
Among the following authors the one who once visited China was ---.
A、Henry James
B、William Faulkner
C、Ernest Hemingway
第10题 (2.0) 分
Among the following novels, only one is not written by William Faulkner. It is _____________.
A、Light in Augusts
B、As I Lay Dying
C、The Golden Bowl
D、Go Down, Moses
第11题 (2.0) 分
Eugene O’Neil did not write ______.
A、The Emperor Jones
B、Anna Christie
C、The Hairy Ape
D、The Saloon
第12题 (2.0) 分
As a Modernist poet, Pound is noted for his active involvement in the ______
A、cubist school of modern painting
B、Imagist Movement
C、stream-of-consciousness technique
D、German Expressionism
第13题 (2.0) 分
William Sidney Porter was the real name of ________.
A、Mark Twain
B、O’ Henry
C、Jack London
D、William Dean Howells
第14题 (2.0) 分
Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story A Rose for E mily, can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities except______.
A、old values
B、rigid ideas of social status
C、bigotry ａnd eccentricity
D、harmony ａnd integrity
第15题 (2.0) 分
"The Spectre Bridegroom" was written by the American author ---.
A、Washington Irving
B、Nathaniel Hawthorne
C、James Feminore Cooper
第16题 (2.0) 分
Among the following sentences, only one is uttered by Henry David Thoreau. It is __________.
A、I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately
B、 I went to the city because I wished to live deliberately
C、 I went to the woods because I wanted to escape
D、 I went to the woods because I wished to shoot some birds
第17题 (2.0) 分
Among the following, only one can not be a possible theme of the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is _________.
A、equality between men
B、escapism
C、conflict between nature ａnd civilization
D、spiritual emptiness
第18题 (2.0) 分
Pound’s poem “t he river-merchant’s wife” was translated ｆrom a poem by the chinese poet __________.
A、李白
B、杜甫
C、白居易
D、王安石
第19题 (2.0) 分
Ernest Hemingway's Last important literary work is
---.
A、the old man ａnd the sea
B、The Sun Also Rises
C、 For Whom the Bell Tolls
第20题 (2.0) 分
The scarlet letter “A” in the novel The Scarlet Letter at first stands for _____________.
A、angel
B、adultery
C、able
D、africa
第21题 (2.0) 分
The novel Sister Carrie opens with a description of Carrie on a train trip to the city of _______ looking for a factory job.
A、New York
B、Beijing
C、Boston
D、Chicago
第22题 (2.0) 分
“Ishmale” is the name of the narrator in the novel ___.
A、Moby Dick
B、The Scarlet Letter
C、The Blithdale Romance
第23题 (2.0) 分
The Blithedale Romance is a novel about the Brook Farm experiment written by __________.
A、Henry James
B、Nathaniel Hawthorne
C、James Fenimore Cooper
第24题 (2.0) 分
Among the following writers, only one does not belong to the naturalistic school. He is___.
A、Henry James
B、Stephen Crane
C、Theodore Dreiser
第25题 (2.0) 分
The short poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” was written by _________.
A、Tennessee Williams
B、William Carlos Williams
C、Wallace Stevens
D、Hilda Doolittle
第26题 (2.0) 分
Among the following, only one is not a feature of Mark Twain’s style. It is __________.
A、his ｕｓｅ of vernacular language
B、local color
C、the influence of the Tall Tale
D、Puritanism
第27题 (2.0) 分
The Author of the short story "A Gift for Maggie" is ---.
A、O. Henry
B、 Mark Twain
C、Jack London
第28题 (2.0) 分
Of Mice ａnd Men is a novel written by ---.
A、John Steinbeck
B、Sherwood Anderson
C、Sinklair Lewis
第29题 (2.0) 分
Among the following 3 poets the one who was once imprisoned for political reasons is ---.
A、Carl Sandburg
B、Edwin Arlington Robinson
C、Ezra Pound
第30题 (2.0) 分
Billy Budd was a short novel written by the American novelist ---.
A、 Nathaniel Hawthorne
B、Herman Melville
C、Walt Whitman
第31题 (2.0) 分
The arbiter of nineteen-century literary realism in America was ______.
A、Mark Twain
B、Henry James
C、O’Henry
D、William Dean Howells
第32题 (2.0) 分
when we say that a poor young man ｆrom the west tried to make his fortune in the east but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.
A、Henry James
B、Scott Fitzgerald
C、Hemingway
D、William Faulkner
第33题 (2.0) 分
____ Bryant’s best-known poem, was written when he was only sixteen years old.
A、To a Waterfowl
B、Thanatopsis
C、To Helen
D、Annabel Lee
第34题 (2.0) 分
It is on his______ that Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested.
A、childhood recollections
B、sketches about his European tours
C、early poetry
D、tales about America
第35题 (2.0) 分
According to Mathew Arnold, one poem written by William Cullen Bryant was the “most perfect brief poem in the language”. The title of the poem is __________.
A、“Thanatopsis”
B、“To a Waterfowl”
C、“The Wild Honey Suckle”
D、“The Indian Burying Ground”
第36题 (2.0) 分
"The American Scholar" is an essay written by the famous philosopher ---.
A、Thomas Carlyle
B、William James
C、Ralph Waldo Emerson
第37题 (2.0) 分
“The Black Cat” written by Poe is a _________.
A、gothic Story
B、love Story
C、detective story
D、lyrical poem
第38题 (2.0) 分
in 1836, a small book was published in the united states ａnd has hence been called the manifesto of the american transcendentalism. its author was ___.
A、 Henry David Thoreau
B、 Walt Whitman
C、Ralph Waldo Emerson
第39题 (2.0) 分
Among the following fictions written by John Steinbeck, only one is about the Second World War. It is ______________.
A、“The Snake”
B、 The Grapes of Wrath
C、“The Moon Is Down”
D、“The Pearl”
第40题 (2.0) 分
Among the following 3 authors the one who did not win a Nobel Prize is ---.
A、William Faulkner
B、 F. S. Fitzgerald
C、 John Steinbeck
判断题
第41题 (1.0) 分
The Second World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment, breeding what is called modernism.
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第42题 (1.0) 分
benjamin franklin was a prose stylist whose writing reflected the romantic ideals of clarity, restraint, simplicity ａnd balance.
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第43题 (1.0) 分
emerson always applied the term transcendentalist to himself ｏr to his beliefs, fｏr he was the acknowledged leader of the movement.
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第44题 (1.0) 分
Immediately after their arrival in america, the american puritans became more preoccupied with business ａnd profits, as they had to be in the grim struggle for survival.
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第45题 (1.0) 分
"Declaration of Independence" was drafted by Benjamin Franklin alone.
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第46题 (1.0) 分
“The Purloined Letter” is a detective
story.
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第47题 (1.0) 分
John Stwinbeck didn't win a Nobel Prize because he was sympathetic with the working class people.
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第48题 (1.0) 分
The Great Gatsby was a novel written by Fitzgerald partially based on his own life experience.
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第49题 (1.0) 分
The House of the Seven Gables is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne based on his experience in the Brook Farm.
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第50题 (1.0) 分
A Shakespearean Sonnet is a short poem with fourteen iambic pentameter lines rhymed
ababcdcdefefgg.
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第51题 (1.0) 分
Henry James’s greatest influence was exerted not on his own age but on the one that followed.
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第52题 (1.0) 分
The Puritan style of writing is characterized by simplicity, which left an indelible imprint on American writings.
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第53题 (1.0) 分
thoreau was an active transcendentalist who was an escapist ｏr a recluse detached ｆrom the life of his day.
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第54题 (1.0) 分
Hawthorne, who seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin ａnd veil, never showed a positive part of the life.
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第55题 (1.0) 分
Besides Moby Dick, Melville also wrote some other sea novels.
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第56题 (1.0) 分
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a representative figure of the American Transcendentalism.
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第57题 (1.0) 分
“The Premature Burial” is a detective story written by
Poe.
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第58题 (1.0) 分
Stream of Consciousness is a minor technique that William Faulkner employed in his novels.
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第59题 (1.0) 分
Though Emily Dickinson married twice in her life, love had never been a major theme in her poetry.
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第60题 (1.0) 分
The first American poet to be translated into Chinese is Walt Whitman.
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2018年春英语教育专业《美国文学》100分作业及答案
2018春《美国文学》作业1．第1题 Among the following novels, only one was not written by Herman Melville. It is _____________. A.The Confidence-Man B.The PIlot C.Moby Dick 答案:B 您的答案：B 题目分数：2.0 此题得分：2.0 2．第2题 The Author of the short story "A Gift for Maggie" is ---. A. O. Henry B. Mark Twain C.Jack London 答案:A 您的答案：A 题目分数：2.0 此题得分：2.0 3．第3题 Of Mice ａnd Men is a novel written by ---. A. John Steinbeck B.Sherwood Anderson C.Sinklair Lewis 答案:A 您的答案：A 题目分数：2.0 此题得分：2.0
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华师 2013秋《英国文学》作业
The best-known of all Shelley’s lyrics is ______. A.Ode to a Skylark B.Ode to the Nightingale C.Prometheus Unbound D.Ode on a Grecian Urn 您的答案：A 题目分数：2 此题得分：2.0 2．第2题 ‘Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,/ Thou foster-child of silece and slow time,”This bride refers to ______. A.a maiden B.a Grecian urn C.a nightingale D.a water-nymph 您的答案：B 题目分数：2 此题得分：2.0 3．第3题 Among the following writers, ______ was known for his/her psychological insight into the development of character and falir for country scenes and speech. A.Emily Bronte B.Charlotte Bronte C.. Dickens D.George Eliot 您的答案：D 题目分数：2 此题得分：2.0 4．第6题 In the late nineteenth century, modernism flourished in English literature. Unlike modern poets and novelists, modem dramatists____ A.a. showed an optimistic emotion toward life B.did not make innovations in techniques and forms at all. C.inherited fully the romantic spirit of the early 19th century. D.borrowed a lot from the irrational philosophy and psychoanalysis. 您的答案：B
(完整版)美国文学课后答案
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美国文学期末考试复习必备(精)
美国文学期末考试复习必备（精） 1. What’s Puritanism? A religious and political movement which appeals to the right of the individual to political & religious independence. It includes three parts: a code of values, a point of view & a philosophy of life 2. What are the basic Puritan beliefs? 1). Total Depravity 2). Unconditional Election 3). Limited Atonement 4). Irresistible Grace 5). Perseverance of the "saints" 3. What are American Puritan values? Sobriety thrift, Self-reliance Diligence, Struggle, simple tastes 4. What are the features of American literature in the Colonial Period? A. Humble origins: diaries, journals, histories, letters. Its various forms, occupy a major position in the literature of the early colonial period. B. in content: serving either god or colonial expansion or both C. in form: imitating English literary traditions. D. in style: tight and logic structure, precise and compact expression, avoidance of rhetorical decoration, adoption of homely imagery and simplicity of diction. E. Symbolism formed in this period ------To the pious Puritan, the physical, phenomenal world was nothing but a symbol of God. F. Simple, fresh and direct style
美国文学作业(100分)
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2013春美国文学在线作业100分
2013春美国文学在线作业100分 1．第11题 ___ is not a name to refer to Natty Bumppo in Cooper’s frontier saga. A.deerslayer B.pathfinder C.hawkeye D.Mohican 答案:D 您的答案：D 题目分数：2.0 此题得分：2.0 2．第12题 “these are times that try men’s souls”is a sentence quoted ｆrom paine’s pamphlet___. A.American Crisis https://www.sodocs.net/doc/e013553568.html,mon Sense C.On Human Rights 答案:A 您的答案：A 题目分数：2.0 此题得分：2.0 3．第13题 The first American writer who propounded that a piece of literary work should focus on the production of a single emotional effect is ___. A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B.Herman Melville C.Edgar Ellan Poe 答案:C 您的答案：C 题目分数：2.0 此题得分：2.0 4．第14题 "Lost Generation" is a term first coined by ---.
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爱党青年和谐版美国文学答案
Literary terms这部分的答案均来自星火《英美文学》一书，质量高 1.Transcendentalism: is literature，philosophical and literary movement that flourished in New England from about 1836 to1860. It originated among a small group of intellectuals who were reaching against the orthodoxy of Calvinism and the rationalism of the Unitarian Church, their own faith centering on the divinity of humanity and the natural world instead. Transcendentalism derived some of its basic idealistic concepts from romantic German philosophy, and from such English authors as Carlyle，Coleridge, and Wordsworth. The ideas of transcendentalism were most eloquently expressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson in such essays as Nature and Self-Reliance and by Henry David Thoreau in his book Walden. 2.American naturalism：this term was created by Emile Zola. Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory played an important role in naturalism. In the works off naturalism，characters were conceived as complex combinations of inherited attributes and habits conditioned by social and economic forces. At the end of the 19th century，this pessimistic form of realism appeared in America. Naturalism attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness. Characters in the works of naturalism were dominated by their environment and heredity. Naturalism emphasized：the world was around；men had no free will；religious “truth” were illusory；the destiny of human beings was misery in life and oblivion in death. The dominant figures in naturalism were Stephen crane，Frank Norris, Jack London and Theodore Dreiser. 3.The lost generation: included the young English and American expatriates as well as men and women caught in the war and cut from the old value and yet unable to come to terms with the new era when civilization had gone mad. These writers adopted unconventional style of writing and reacted against the tendencies of the older writers in the 1920s. The term came from Gertrude Stein who said in Hemingway's presence that “you are all a lost generation.” 4.Jazz age: the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the term "Jazz Age" retroactively to refer to the decade after World War I and before the stock market crash in 1929, during which Americans embarked upon what he called "the gaudiest spree in history". Jazz Age is inextricably associated with the wealthy white "flappers" and socialites immortalized in Fitzgerald's fiction. 5.Free verse: is a poetry that has an irregular rhythm and line length and that attempts to avoid any predetermined verse structure, instead, it uses the cadences of natural speech. While it alternates stressed and unstressed syllables as stricter verse forms do, free verse does so in a looser way. Whitman's poetry is an example of free verse at its most impressive. It has since been used by Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and other major American can poets of the 20th century. 6. The iceberg analogy: The Iceberg Theory is a writing theory by American writer Ernest Hemingway, as follows：if a writer of a prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader，if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. 这部分来自星火的为：3,7,8, 来自课本为：1,4,9 来自网络为：2,5,6大家自取之 1.Poe's Poetic Ideas A.His conviction that the function of poetry is not to summarize and interpret earthly experience, but to create a mood in which the soul soars toward supernal beauty. B.He insists that poetry must be disembarrassed of that moral sense. C.Poe believes that the elevation of excitement of the soul should be “the poetic principle” thus poetry must concern itself only with “supernal beauty”. D.Poe defines poetry as “the rhythmical creation of beauty” a definition gi ving unexampled emphasis upon the importance of the rhythmical or musical element in poetry.
美国文学期末作业---好人布朗
Young Goodman Brown is one of the best short fictions written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1835. It tells us a story that Young Goodman Brown, a religious element, left his wife Faith and ventured deep into the forest to attend the assembly of evil in order to satisfy his curiosity. However, as an eyewitness of the congregation, both sinners and saints and including his faithful wife Faith had converted the devil, young Goodman Brown broke down and became a zombie. Owing to the closeness of short stories and the features of Hawthorne’s novels (symbolism and indirectness), only when we do deep analysis on it, the whole world of the story can be stretched out.And this paper analyses the inner meaning of some words and phrases of Young Goodman Brown from three aspects: Firstly, what’s the inner meaning of some words in this story. Secondly, why Hawthorne wrote this story, which including the satire at politics, society, racial discrimination and the introspection on Salem Witch Trials. Thirdly, how to see the good and evil. What’s the inner meaning of some words in Young Goodman Brown? Salem: ①H awthorne’s hometown. ②It was where the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 happened. ③It means a city of peace. ④It is the latter part of Jerusalem, which shows the strong belief in Christianism of early colonist Young: ①Goodman Brown was in a young age. ②He just established his faith of God and just married with Faith. ③He has the curiosity to learn about the world. Goodman:①Good man, good-hearted person. ②It is a given name, which was given by families rather than born with. ③Irony. Brown is not actually a good man for he cheated on his wife (my journey is forth and back again), himself (felt himself justified in making more haste on his present evil purpose), the devil (they never spoke theses matters) and also Goody Cloyse (cut through the woods until left her behind). Brown:①a common last name. ②average person, everyman, every man. ③brown is a color that generated by mixing black, red and white. It also reflects that Brown is not totally a sinner nor a saint. ④Brown is a last name passed down from generation to generation which cannot be changed and it also reflects that everyone has the original sin. ⑤Something tires somebody. It indicates the death of Brown. Faith: ①Strong religious belief in God ②Loyal to love.