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1. The American Transcendentalists formed a club called ________

the Transcendental Club

2. _______ was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism.

Washington Irving

3. At nineteen __________ published in his brother 's newspaper, his

"Jonathan Oldstyle" satires of New York life.

4. In Washington Irving 's work _______________ appeared the first modern short

stories and the first great American juvenile literature. The Sketch

Book

5. The first important American novelist was ____________ .James Fenimore

Cooper

6. James Fenimore Cooper 's novel _______________ was a rousing tale about

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The Pilot

8. "To a Waterfowl" is perhaps the peak of _____________ _'s work; it has been

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9. ______________ was the first American to gain the stature of a major poet in the

world literature.

10. E dgar Allan Poe 's poem _______________ is perhaps the best example of

onomatopoeia in the English language. The Bells

11. E dgar Allan Poe's poem ____________ was published in 1845 as the title poem

of a collection. The Raven

12. F rom Henry David Thoreau 's Concord jail experience, came his famous essay . Civil

Disobedience

By the 1830s Washington Irving was judged the nation' s greatest writer, a lofty position he later shared with James Fenimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant.

In the early nineteenth century, the attitude of American writers was shaped by their New World environment and an array of ideas inherited from the romantic tradition of Europe. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.

The foundation of American national literature was laid by the early American romanticists. At mid-19th century, a cultural reawakening brought a "flowering of New

England".

Romantic writers in the 19th century placed increasing value on the free expression of emotion and displayed increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters.

With a vast group of supporting characters, virtuous or villainous, James Fenimore Cooper made the America conscious of his past, and made the European conscious of America.

No other American poet ever surpassed Edgar Allan Poe 's ability in the use of English as a medium of pure musical and rhythmic beauty.

The Fall of the House of Usher is one of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories . Ralph Waldo Emerson was recognized as the leader of transcendentalist movement, but he never applied the term " Transcendentalist" to himself or to

his beliefs and ideas .

In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson published his first book, Nature, which met with a mild reception.

Ralph Waldo Emerson's prose style was sometimes as highly individual as his poetry. The harsh rhythms and striking images of Ralph Waldo Emerson 's poetry appeal to many modern readers as artful techniques.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's writings belong to the milder aspects of the Romantic Movement.

American romanticism was in a way derivative: American romantic writing was some of them modeled on English and European works.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 's aesthetics brought about a revolution in American literature in general and in American poetry in particular.

Henry David Thoreau was an active Transcendentalist. He was by no means an "escapist" or a recluse, but was intensely involved in the life of his day.

The Scarlet Letter is set in the seventeenth century. It is an elaboration of a fact which the author took out of the life of the Puritan past.

2. Transcendentalism took their ideas from __________ .

A. the romantic literature in Europe

B. neo-Platonism

C. German idealistic philosophy

D. the revelations of oriental mysticism

ABCD

8. Transcendentalists recognized ___________ as the "highest power of the

soul . ”

A. intuition 10. Transcendentalism appealed to those who disdained the harsh God of the Puritan ancestors, and it appealed to those who scorned the pale deity of New England

A. Transcendentalism

B. Humanism

C. Naturalism

D. Unitarianism

D

13. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature, evident in _________________ .

A. James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales

B. Henry David Thoreau 's Walden

C. Mark Twain 's Huckleberry Finn

D. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

ABC

14. A preoccupation with the demonic and the mystery of evil marked the works of , and a host of lesser writers.

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Herman Melville

D. Mark Twain

ABC

16. In the nineteenth century America, Romantics often shared certain general characteristics. Choose such characteristics from the following.

A. moral enthusiasm

B. faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perception

C. adoration for the natural world

D. presumption about the corrosive effect of human society

ABCD

17. Choose Washington Irving' s works from the following.

A. The Sketch Book

B. Bracebridge Hall

C. Tales of a Traveller

D. A History of New York

ABCD

18. In James Fenimore Cooper's novels, close after Natty Bumppo in romantic appeal , come the two noble red men. Choose them from the following.

A. the Mohican Chief Chingachgook

B. Uncas

C. Tom Jones

D. Kubla Khan

AB

In 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced the best

poet __________ to appear in America up to that time.

A. Edward Taylor

B. Philip Freneau

C. William Cullen Bryant

D. Edgar Allan Poe

C To a Waterfowl Thanatopsis

21. From the following, choose the poems written by Edgar Allan Poe.

A. To Helen

B. The Raven

C. Annabel Lee

D. The Bells

ABCD

23. Edgar Allan Poe's first collection of short stories is __________ .

D. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

24. From the following, choose the characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson's poetry.

A. being highly individual

B. harsh rhythms

C. lack of form and polish

D. striking images

ABCD

25. Which book is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?

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1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _________, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe. A. Ahab B. Ishmael C. Stubb D. Starbuck 2. Naturalism is evolved from re alism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________. A. rational B. humorous C. optimistic D. pessimistic 3. Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire includes th ree novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and_____ . A. The Genius B. The Tycoon C. The Stoic D. The Giant 4. 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___________ . A. local colorism B. vernacularism C. modernism D. naturalism 5. 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. A. Southern B. Western C. New Hampshire D. New England 6. As an autobiographical play, O’Neill’s ___________(1956) has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama. A. The Iceman Cometh B. Long Day’s Journey Into Night C. The Hairy Ape D. Desire Under the Elms 7. 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. A. impressionism B. expressionism C. multiple points of view D. first person point of view 8. Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by____________. A. short, clear sentences B. abundance of local images C. ordinary American speech D. highly refined language 9. One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figure in the 19th century America is his use of____________ . A. vernacular B. interior monologue C. point of view D. photographic description 10. 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 11. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “____________________”.

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美国文学选择题及答案 1. William Faulkner is the author of ______. a. Far From the Madding Crowd b. Sound and Fury c. For Whom the Bell Tolls d. Scarlet Letter 2. Robert Frost is a famous_______. a. novelist b. playwright c. poet d. literary critic 3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ________. a. Jack London b. Charles Dickens c. Samuel Coleridge d. Earnest Hemingway 4. _______refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality. a. Allegory b. Conflict c. Irony d. Flashback 5. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is______. a. Nature b. Walden c. Experience d. Essays 6. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of _____and serious literature. a. American folk humor b. funny jokes c. English folklore d. American values 7. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War? a. Fennimore Cooper. b. Nathaniel Hawthorn. c. Walt Whitman. d. Washington Irving. 8. I Have a Dream is addressed by _____. a. Abraham Lincoln b. John F. Kennedy c. Martin Luther King d. Ralph Waldo Emerson 9. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson? a. This is my letter to the world b. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died c. This is just to say d. Because I could not stop for death 10. Eugene O’Neil is an American ______. a. novelist b. playwright c. poet d. essayist 11. The period from 1865—1914 has been referred to as the _______in the literary history of the United States. a. Age of Realism b. Age of Classicalism c. Age of Romanticism d. Age of Renaissance 12. With “Collected Poems”, ______won the second Pulitzer Prize. a. Ezra Pond b. e. e. cummings c. Robert Frost d. William Cullen Bryant 13. Grass is a poem written by _______.