- The Catcher in the Rye ralates the painful story of a high-school boy growing up in the world of decadent New York.
- The Cold War happened in 1950s.
- Salinger was born into a Jewish middle class family.
- J.D.Salinger only wrote one novel and became famous for it.
- One of the most ambitious writers of this period is J.D.Salinger.
- Which of the following statements is right about the novel A Farewell to Arms?
- In the first part of the 20th century，apart from Darwinism, there were two thinkers -______， whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.
- Which of the following statements can be said about the works of Scott Fitzgerald, a spokesman of the “Roaring 20s”?
- Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include_________, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.
- To Faulkner, the primary duty of a writer was to explore and represent the infinite possibilities inherent in human life. Therefore a writer should ______.
- One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figure in the 19th century America is his use of____________ .
- Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by____________.
- Which of the following is right about Mark Twain’s language?
- Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain’s style of language?
- With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ______became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century．
- As one of Hawthorne’s most profound tales, Young Goodman Brown is written in the manner of its concern with_________. （ ）
- The Romantic Period in the history of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving’s _________ and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
- Which of the following statements about the Romantic period in the history of American literature is NOT true?
- Which of the following is NOT among the artistic features of Whitman’s writing?（ ）
- The New England Transcendentalism was from the very beginning a local phenomenon restricted only to those people living in New England, who carried out the movement as a reaction against the cold, rigid rationalism of _________ in Boston. （ ）
- In 18th century, ____was the last great voice of theCalvinist stance.
- In“the Great Awakening”, ____was the last great voice toreannounce the Calvinist stance
- Eighteenth-century American thinking was dominated, by and large, by 2 patterns of thought.
- American Romanticism stretches from 1800 to 1865.
- The first symbol of self-made American man is___
- Puritans were idealists, believing the church should be restored to complete “purity” and dreaming that they would build the new land to an Eden on earth.
- American Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and American literature.
- The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of them_____.
- The settlement of the North American continent by the English began in the early part of 18 century.
- It is a critical commonplace now that American literature is based on a myth, that is, ________.
- The representative of American local colorism is
- How many periods can be divided in American literary history?
- T.S.Eliot is an American author.
- Who is a writer in the American colonial period?
- Irving was the first great American writer to earn international fame.
- After the Civil War America was transformed from an industrialized and commercialized society an agrarian community.
- In the latter half of the nineteenth century, women somewhat became the nation’s dominant culture force.
- Henry James was not only one of the most important realists of the period before the First World War, but also one of the most expert stylists of his time.
- Henry James’ greatest influence was exerted not on his own age but on the one that followed.
- Leaves of Grass commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of _____, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War. （ ）
- Which of the following is right about the first few decades of the 20th century? （ ）
- Which of the following are the features about the American literature written from 1912 onwards? _________.（ ）
- During Ezra Pound’s later period, his poetry is more concerned about ________.（ ）
- After the Civil War America was transformed from ______ to ____. （ ）
- The American realists portrayed the harsh realities and pressures by _______.（ ）
- _______ won the Pulitzer Prize four times and was the only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize. He is widely acclaimed “founder of the American drama,” and recognized even more as a major figure in world literature. （ ）
- Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with _______.（ ）
- Herman Melville had written many sea adventure stories, among which _____ proves to be the best. （ ）
- The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the _____ in the American literary history. （ ）
- Which of the following statements of American Transcendentalism is correct? （ ）
- The following statements are usually said about Emersonian Transcendentalism except______.（ ）
- It was a sort of first attempt at writing his masterpiece _______, (1925) which made Fitzgerald one of the greatest American novelists. （ ）
- Which of the following is not written by Henry James? （ ）
- _______was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called “Imagist” movement. （ ）
- The use of _______ in his writings has made Mark Twain one of the major literary figures in the 19th century American literature. （ ）
- “The Sound and the Fury” was the masterpiece of ______（ ）
- The characters presented by the naturalist writers were ____.（ ）
- The Romantic Period in American literature stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of ________. （ ）
- Which of the following can be said about the titular heroine in the novel Daisy Miller? （ ）
- By the end of the 19th century, the American realists sought to _____ and therefore rejected the portrayal of idealized characters and events in their writings. （ ）
- Moby Dick was written by_____（ ）
- The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American___________ . （ ）
- Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Washington Irving? （ ）
- About Washington Irving, Father of American short stories, which of the following statement is right? （ ）
- More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general Skepticism about the relationship between ______ is well-expressed. （ ）
- The modern stream-of-consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully exploited by _______ to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator. He captured the dialects of the Mississippi characters, including Negroes and the redneck, as well as more refined and educated narrators like Quentin. （ ）
- Franklin was a _____.（ ）
- As a realist, Mark Twain concerned particularly about the local character of a region, which came about as “_________”. （ ）
- Mark Twain’s late works became _____ . （ ）
- Capping his career and leading to his receipt of the Nobel Prize, _______ is about an old Cuban fisherman Santiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin. （ ）
- Choose the novel written by Henry James_______.（ ）
- T.S. Eliot is not only a poet but also a ______.（ ）
- Hemingway’s style of writing is characterized by______.（ ）
- “The Scarlet Letter” is the masterpiece of______.（ ）
- A big change which took place in Mark Twain’s outlook in his later years of writing was that________.（ ）
- The features of Mark Twain is______（ ）
- Which of the following is right about American fiction from 1945 onwards? （ ）
- _____ is now recognized not only as a great poetess on her own right but as a poetess of considerable influence upon American poetry of the present century. （ ）
- After the First World War, a group of expatriate writers in American modern literature were later called “_________”. （ ）
- The United States of America was founded in______.（ ）
- In her quiet and partially isolated life, Emily Dickinson makes enchanting poetry out of_________.（ ）
- American _______, another school of realism, resulted mainly from the impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory and the influence of the 19th century French literature. （ ）
- All of the following are the features of Puritans EXCEPT _____.（ ）
- 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. （ ）
- The America’s literary realism was limited to optimistic treatment of the surface of life.
- About the basic principles of American Transcendentalism, which of the following statements is NOT right? （ ）
- _____was the most leading spirit of the Transcendentalism. （ ）
- As a poet in the 20th century, Robert Frost _________.（ ）
- With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, _______ became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “The Lost Generation”. （ ）
- Who is described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience?" （ ）
- “Catch-22” is the masterpiece of______（ ）
- The “Father of American Poetry” is ____.（ ）
- Which of the following can be said about Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily ? （ ）
- In his masterpiece The Portrait of A Lady, Henry James _________ . （ ）
- _____ is the first book to present a Hemingway hero——Nick Adams. （ ）
- The 1950s American writers often used the narrative techniques derived from（ ）
- It was____ who wrote the poem “The Road Not Taken.” （ ）
- The ancestors of American Indians were______（ ）
- The three dominant figures in the period of Realism of America are William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and________. （ ）
- As a philosophical and literary movement, Transcendentalism flourished in New England from the 1830s to （ ）
- Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, of which only _________ had appeared during her lifetime. （ ）
- Emily Dickinson is an American________.（ ）
- Ralph Waldo Emerson was the leading figure of________.（ ）
- Sigmund Freud’s interpretation of dreams and the theories of _____ have infused modern American literature and made it possible for most of the writers in the modern period to probe into the inner world of human reality.( ）
- Huckleberry Finn is the masterpiece of________.（ ）
- _____ fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in the upper-class society, especially the upper-class young people. （ ）
- In the novel Moby Dick, the rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab was thought to be against . （ ）
- ______ is generally considered to be Henry James’ masterpiece, which incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environment. （ ）
- Which of the following is not written by Herman Melville ? （ ）
- In James Fenimore Cooper’s novels, close after Natty Bumppo in romantic appeal, come the two noble red men. Choose them from the following items. （ ）
- The jazz age refers to the decade of ______.（ ）
- Which of the following statements can be said about the writing styles of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a most representative figure of the 1920s? （ ）
- Traditional fiction featured an authoritative narrator in telling a story, while modern fiction tended to employ the first person narration or limit the reader to “_____”. （ ）
- The Catcher in the Rye written by _____ is regarded as a students’classic. （ ）
- The American realists sought to describe the wide range of American experience and to present the subtleties of human personality.
- Irving was the first great American writer to earn international fame.
- After the Civil War America was transformed from an industrialized and commercialized society an agrarian community.
- Henry James’ greatest influence was exerted not on his own age but on the one that followed.
- The America’s literary realism was limited to optimistic treatment of the surface of life.
- After the First World War, a group of expatriate writers in American modern literature were later called “_________”. （ ）
- Upon the publication of The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1900) and The Mysterious Stranger (1916), the change in Mark Twain from an optimist to an almost despairing pessimist could be felt and his cynicism and disillusionment with what Twain referred to regularly as the______ became obvious. （ ）
- As a poet in the 20th century, Robert Frost _________.（ ）
- The Puritan values did no include______.（ ）
- The 1950s American writers often used the narrative techniques derived from（ ）
- Who is described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience?" （ ）
- With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, _______ became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “The Lost Generation”. （ ）
- Huckleberry Finn is the masterpiece of________.（ ）
- Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain's style of language? （ ）
- Whit Whitman is famous for his_________.（ ）
- Which of the following statements about the three dominant figures in the history of American literature is right? （ ）
- “Catch-22” is the masterpiece of______（ ）
- _______is a famous American female poet. （ ）
- In James Fenimore Cooper’s novels, close after Natty Bumppo in romantic appeal, come the two noble red men. Choose them from the following items. （ ）
- _______ was the first great American writer to earn international fame. （ ）
- As a realist, Mark Twain concerned particularly about the local character of a region, which came about as “_________”. （ ）
- Cooper’s story of the “frontier saga” is made up of 5 famous novels that comprise the ________ Tales, in which the main character is Natty Bumppo. （ ）
- From Henry David Thoreau’s jail experience came his famous essay, ______ which states Thoreau’s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government. （ ）
- The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their _____.（ ）
- Mark Twain’s most representative book is with the centeral figure of Tom.（ ）
- _ ___ had been an evident influence on Naturalism. It seemed to stress the animal impulse of man, to suggest that man was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution. （ ）
- Which of the following is not written by Eugene O’Neill? （ ）
- ________ of the 1920s was characterized by frivolity and carelessness and brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby. （ ）
- The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature is a permanent convention of American literature. It is evident in the following writings except________.（ ）
- Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, of which only _________ had appeared during her lifetime. （ ）
- Choose the authors who doesn't belong to the romantic group in American literature. （ ）
- “The Sound and the Fury” was the masterpiece of ______（ ）
- It was______who wrote “The Age of Reason” （ ）
- In addition to his novels, _______ wrote about 120 short stories and sketches. Among them are Young Goodman Brown and The Minister’s Black Veil. （ ）
- Leaves of Grass commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of _____, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War. （ ）
- Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________. （ ）
- The use of _______ in his writings has made Mark Twain one of the major literary figures in the 19th century American literature. （ ）
- Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms -the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse -with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax. （ ）
- During Ezra Pound’s later period, his poetry is more concerned about ________.（ ）
- “The Scarlet Letter” is the masterpiece of______.（ ）
- The features of Mark Twain is______（ ）
- Hawthorne’s unique feature was for . （ ）
- “The Great Gatsby” is the masterpiece of_____（ ）
- Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of Henry James’ literary techniques? （ ）
- About Henry James’ literary criticism, which of the following is not right? （ ）
- About Washington Irving, Father of American short stories, which of the following statement is right? （ ）
- Which of the following can be said about Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily ? （ ）
- Franklin was the epitome of the______.（ ）
- The modern stream-of-consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully exploited by _______ to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator. He captured the dialects of the Mississippi characters, including Negroes and the redneck, as well as more refined and educated narrators like Quentin. （ ）
- By the turn of the century, with the publication of The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and The Mysterious Stranger, the change in Mark Twain from ______ to _____ could be felt. （ ）
- J.D.Salinger only wrote one novel and became famous for it.
- One of the most ambitious writers of this period is J.D.Salinger.
- Salinger was born into a Jewish middle class family.
- The Catcher in the Rye ralates the painful story of a high-school boy growing up in the world of decadent New York.
- The Cold War happened in 1950s.
- Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include_________, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.
- Which of the following statements can be said about the works of Scott Fitzgerald, a spokesman of the “Roaring 20s”?
- Which of the following statements is right about the novel A Farewell to Arms?
- To Faulkner, the primary duty of a writer was to explore and represent the infinite possibilities inherent in human life. Therefore a writer should ______.
- In the first part of the 20th century，apart from Darwinism, there were two thinkers -______， whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.
- One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figure in the 19th century America is his use of____________ .
- Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by____________.
- Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain’s style of language?
- Which of the following is right about Mark Twain’s language?
- With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ______became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century．
- The New England Transcendentalism was from the very beginning a local phenomenon restricted only to those people living in New England, who carried out the movement as a reaction against the cold, rigid rationalism of _________ in Boston. （ ）
- Which of the following statements about the Romantic period in the history of American literature is NOT true?
- The Romantic Period in the history of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving’s _________ and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
- Which of the following is NOT among the artistic features of Whitman’s writing?（ ）
- As one of Hawthorne’s most profound tales, Young Goodman Brown is written in the manner of its concern with_________. （ ）
- American Romanticism stretches from 1800 to 1865.
- In“the Great Awakening”, ____was the last great voice toreannounce the Calvinist stance
- The first symbol of self-made American man is___
- Eighteenth-century American thinking was dominated, by and large, by 2 patterns of thought.
- In 18th century, ____was the last great voice of theCalvinist stance.
- The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of them_____.
- The settlement of the North American continent by the English began in the early part of 18 century.
- Puritans were idealists, believing the church should be restored to complete “purity” and dreaming that they would build the new land to an Eden on earth.
- American Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and American literature.
- It is a critical commonplace now that American literature is based on a myth, that is, ________.
- T.S.Eliot is an American author.
- The representative of American local colorism is
- Who is a writer in the American colonial period?
- How many periods can be divided in American literary history?
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答案:对
答案:对
答案:对
答案:对
答案:The author emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and mentally and suggests that man is doomed to be entrapped.
答案:the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud
答案:They are symbolic of the psychological journey of the modern man and his helplessness in the modern world.
答案:mutiple points of view
答案:both A and B.
答案:vernacular
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