美国文学填空题

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Part I

1.At last early in the century, the English settlements in and began the main

stream of what we recognize as American national history.

2.The earliest settlers in US, includes , Swedes, , French, , Italians, and .

3.’s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first

distinctly American literature to be written in English.

4.The Puritans had come to New England for the sake of , while Virginia had been planted

mainly as a .

5.Hard work, , piety, and were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest

American writing, including the sermons, books, and letters of such noted Puritan clergymen as John Cotton and Cotton Mather.

6., the first governor of Plymouth, and , who held the same post at Boston, were men

superior to even the remarkable qualities that distinguished many of their associates. Each has left us a priceless gift: the former, , the latter .

7.The best way to learn more of the colonial Puritan mind is to meet two important figures,

_____and .

8.Most puritan verse was decidedly plodding, but the work of the two writers, Anne Bradstreet

and Edward Taylor, rose to the level of .

Answer:

1.17th, V irginia, Massachusetts

2.Ducth, Germans, Spaniards, Portuguese

3.Captain John Smith

4.religious freedom, commercial venture

5.thrift, sobriety

6.William Bradford, John Winthrop, The History of Plymouth Plantation, The History of New

England

7.John Cotton, Roger Williams

8.real poetry

Part II

1.As we have seen, dominated the Puritan phase of American writing. was the next

great subject to command the attention of the best minds.

2.Freedom was won as much by the fiery rhetoric of Thomas Paine’s and the eloquence of

the as by the weapons of Washington or Lafayette.

3.hampered colonial economy by requiring Americans to ship raw materials aboard and to

import finished goods at prices higher than the cost of making them in this country.

4.American dealt a decisive blow upon the puritan traditions and brought to life and

literature.

5.The secular ideas of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career

of , who instructed his countrymen as , not .

6.In 1783, the year the United States achieved its independence, declared, “American must

be as independent in literature as she is in politics, as famous for the arts as for arms”.

7.Born in Boston in 1706, Benjamin Franklin went to Philadelphia as a young man and began

his career as .

8.From 1732 to 1758, Franklin wrote and published his famous , an annual collection of

proverbs.

9.On January 10, 1766, Paine’s famous pamphlet appeared. It boldly advocated a

“Declaration for Independence”, and brought the separatist agitation to a crisis.

10.is perhaps the most outstanding writer of the post-revolutionary period.

11.Freneau was by training and taste yet romantic in essential spirit.

12.For a few years, writing with sporadic fluency, Freneau earned his living variously

as , , and sea captain.

13.As a poet, heralded American literature independence: his close observation of

nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects.

14.Freneau has been called the “”, and it is ultimately in a historical estimate that F reneau is

important.

Answer:

1.theology, politics

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Declaration of Independence

3.The British government

4.Enlightenment, secular education

5.Benjamin Franklin, a printer, a priest

6.Noah Webster

7. a printer 8.Poor Richard’s Almanac

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10.Philip Freneau

11.neoclassical

12.farmer, journalist

13.Freneau

14.Father of American Poetry

Part III

1.In 1828 the election of the frontier as the seventh President of the United States had

brought an effective end to the “V irginia Dynasty” of American presi dents.

2.The United States had been a republic of small , without sharp contrast of wealth.

3.Through the first half of 19th century the pursuit of , utility, and remained an

American characteristic.

4.In the first college-level institution for women, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

opened in to serve the “muslin sex”.

5.Washington Irving’s became the first work by an American writer to win financial success

on both sides of Atlantic.

6.The attitudes of America’s writers were shaped by their environment and array of ideas

inherited from the traditions of Europe.

7.values were prominent in American politics, art, and philosophy until the Civil War.

8.As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither nor .

9.Romantic writers placed increasing value on the expression of emotion and displayed

increasing attention to the states of their characters.

10.In 1820, published An American Dictionary of The English Language.

11.was the first great prose stylist of American romanticism, and his familiar style was

destined to outlive the formal prose of such contemporaries as Scott and Cooper, and to provide a model for the prevailing prose narrative of the future.

12.Irving was the first great , writing always for , and to produce .

13.was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.

14.Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: and .

15.The central figure in Cooper’s novels, , goes by serious names of Leatherstocking,

Deerslayer, Pathfinder, and Hawkeye.

16.In 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis(Greek, meaning “view of death”) introduced the

best poet, , to appear in American up to that time.

Answer:

1.Andrew Jackson

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3.simplicity, perfection

4.1837, Massachusetts

5.Sketch Book

6.New World, romantic

7.Romantic

8.logical, systematized 9.free, psychic

10.Noah Webster

11.Washington Irving

12.belletrist, pleasure, pleasure

13.The Spy

14.the sea adventure tale, the frontier saga

15.Natty Bumppo

16.William Cullen Bryant

1.Poe entered the , but left a short time later because he would not enter the profession of

law as Allan wished.

2.Ironically, while Poe was struggling in America, his work was commanding more and more

praise in . His influence was especially strong on many writers.

3.Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of movement, yet he never

applied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.

4.Emerson believed above all in , independence of mind, and .

5.Two speeches, and made Emerson famous.

6.Emerson’s truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emerson’s theories,

was .

7.For Thoreau, as for Emerson, and ranked above all.

8.“” stated Thoreau’s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a

government.

Answer:

1.University of Virginia

2.Europe , French

3.Transcendentalist

4.individualism, self-reliance

5.The American Scholar, The Divinity School Address

6.Henry David Thoreau

7.self-reliance, independence of mind

8.Civil Disobedience

1.deals with the effects of a curse, and though the tale itself is fiction, the germ of the story

sprang from the author’s family history.

2.Hawthorne’s unique gift was the creation of strongly stories which touch the deepest

roots of man’s moral nature. The finest example is the recreation of Puritan Boston, . 3.Hawthorne’s ability to create vivid and symbolic images that embody great questions

appears strongly in his short stories.

4.is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural

white whale.

5.and by temperament, Melville shipped as a cabin boy on a merchant vessel to

England in 1839, when he was twenty.

6.What baffled Moby Dick’s readers was the book’s wild extravagances of and , its

effect of and , its ef fect of what the modern critic V an Wyck Brooks calls “a shredded play.

7.Longfellow domesticated meters as in his adaptation of classical meters to tell the

story of Evangeline Bellefontaine.

8.The , sweetness, and for which Longfellow’s p oetry was popular during his

lifetime were the very qualities that caused the reaction against in after his death.

Answer:

1.The House of the Seven Gables

2.symbolic, The Scarlet Letter

3.moral

4.Moby Dick

5.Restless, venturesome

6.mood, language, Shakespearean

7.European, Greek

8.gentleness, purity

1.By the end of (1816-1865) most of the forces that would typify twentieth-century

American had begun to emerge. Northern had triumphed over Southern and from that victory came a society based on mass labor and mass consumption.

2.In 1865 the first step toward racial equality was made when the Amendment to the

Constitution was adopted, abolishing within the United States.

3.By 1890 the frontier, the westward moving line of settlement began three years before on the

_____ceased to exist.

4.In 1891, (founded in 1883) became the first American magazine to exceed a circulation

of half a million; by 1905 it had reached a million.

5.Harriet Beccher Stowe, the author of (1852), had become an American institution and

the most famous literary woman in the world.

6.The had what Henry James called “a powerful impulse to mirror to the unmitigated

realities of life.

7.“Realism” first appeared in the United States in the literature of , and an amalgam if

romantic plots and realistic descriptions of things were immediately observable.

8.The arbiter of nineteenth-century literary realism in American was .

9.The bulk of America’s literary realism was limited to treatment of the surface of life.

10.Naturalism, like realism, had come from .

11.The and ideas of naturalism pervaded the works of such writers as Stephen Crane,

Frank Norris, Jack London, Henry Adam, and Theodore Dreiser.

12.In the cluster of poems Whitman called he gave America its first genuine poem.

13.Whitman published the first edition of Leaves of Grass in ,setting the type for the book

himself, and writing favorably reviews of it in the papers, anonymously.

14.Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about and nature.

15.The ran ge of Dickinson’s poetry suggests not her limited experiences but the power of her

_____and .

16.The poems are short, many of them being bases on a single or .

17.Uncle Tom’s Cabin,or (as it was originally entitled) was conceived early in February,

1851.

18.To cope with southern opposition and challenges to the accuracy of the novel, she wrote the

nonfiction with the documented case histories to support what she had portrayed fictionally.

19.Mark Twain left the Mississippi at the outbreak of , and became, in swift succession, an

army volunteer, in Nevada, a timber speculator and .

20.had already pointed towards Mark Twain’s uneasy acceptance of the values of

nineteen-century American society.

Answer:

1.the Civil War, industrialism, agrarianism

2.Thirteenth, slavery

3.Atlantic Coast

4.The Ladies Home Journal

5.Uncle Tom’s Cabin

6.realists

7.local color

8.William Dean Howells

9.optimistic

10.Europe

11.pessimism, deterministic 12.Leaves of Grass, epic

13.1855

14.man

15.creativity, imagination

16.image, symbol

17.The Man That Was a Thing

18.A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin

19.the Civil War

20.a gold prospector, a journalist

21.The Gilded Age

1.The title of one of O. Henry’s book, , indicates that he considered all the people of New

Y ork City worth writing about, and not simply the u pper “Four Hundred”.

2.In 1871 the Atlantic serialized James’ first novel, , with which he hoped, but failed, to

achieve fame.

3.James preferred to declare that his first real novel was .

4.(1878) which one American critic described as “an outrage to American girlhood”

brought James his first international fame.

5.Wolf Larsen, the ruthless, amoral protagonist of , best realizes the ideal of the

“superman”.

6.A central document for the London scholar is the patently autobiographical novel .

7.By the time Jack London published his first collection of stories, (1900), he was on his

way to becoming the highest paid author of his time.

8.The most enduringly popular of Jack London’s stories involved the primitive struggle of

and individuals in the context of irresistible natural forces such as the wild sea or the arctic wastes.

9.London had written too much too fast, with too little concern for the and and

subtlety of characterization that rank high with critics.

10.(1900), which traces the material rise of Carrie Meeber and the tragic decline of G. W.

Hurstwood, was Dreiser’s first novel.

11.The protagonist of “Trilogy of Dreiser”, is modeled after the Chicago speculator Charles

T. Y erks.

12.The identification of potency with is at t he heart of Dreiser’s greatest and most

successful novel, An American Tragedy.

13.In 1930s, Dreiser was increasing attracted by the philosophical program of .

Answer:

1.The Four Million

2.Watch and Ward

3.Roderick Hudson

4.Daisy Miller

5.The Sea Wolf

6.Martin Eden

7.The Son of the Wolf 8.strong, weak

9.stylistic, formal refinement

10.Sister Carrie

11.Frank Cowperwood

12.money

13.the Communist Party

1.In the years preceding World War I, nineteenth-century realism and remained vital

forces in American Literature.

2.The genteel tradition and popular still dominated the nation’s literary tastes.

3.The best-selling American books in the first decades of the twentieth century were .

4.Although the form and direction of modern American literature had clearly begun to emerge

in the first decades of the century, stands as a great dividing line between the nineteenth century and contemporary American.

5.Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a “”,

devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization.

6.The publication in 1922 of T. S. Eliot’s , the most significant American poem of the

twentieth century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.

7.Early in the 1920s the most prominent of the new American playwrights, established an

international reputation.

8.Jazz music of the American — the most influential art form to originate in the United

States — spread throughout the world.

9.The social upheavals and literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the

prosperity and turmoil brought by .

10.Ezra Pound’s , considered as a satire of the materialistic forces involved in the World

War I, is a masterpiece.

11.Robinson began his career as a poet in and .

12.“Richard Cory” and “Miniver Cheery” are good examples of realistic attitudes.

13.Robinson’s poems sometimes appear to be , yet the surface often serves to

conceal an intricacy and subtlety of thought.

14.In London, Frost’s first book , brought him to the attention of influential critics.

15.When he was eighty-seven, Frost read his poetry at the inauguration of President .

16.Frost employed the plain speech of rural and preferred the short, traditional forms of

lyric and narrative.

17.Frost saw nature as a storehouse of and , announcing, “I’m always saying

something more.

Answer:

1.naturalism

2.romanticism

3.historical romances

4.the First World War

5.Lost Generation

6.The Waste Land

7.Eugene O’neil 8.Negro

9.Second World War

10.Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

11.bleakness, poverty

12.Robinso n’s

13.simple, simplicity

14.A Boy’s Will

15.John F. Kennedy

16.New Englanders

17.analogy, symbol

1.With the precedent of behind them, Sandburg’s poems present a sweeping panorama of

American life.

2.Sandburg’s language draws on the colorful diction of and the lingo of urban dwellers.

3.Wallace Steven created his poetry as a gifted , less concerned about promoting than

about perfecting what he wrote.

4.It was not until 1923 that Steven, at the age of 44, was finally persuaded to publish a book of

poems .

5.The problem of the interrelation between and became a series of oppositions

between inner and outer world.

6.At Merton College, Oxford in 1955, Eliot again studied .

7.The degree to which fusion and concentration of , feeling, and were achieved was

Eliots criterion for judging the poem.

8.In 1920s, Eliot began , one of the major works of modern literature.

9.It is likely that in Eliot’s abundant use of literary reference in The Waste Lard he was

influenced by .

10.In connection with the publ ication of the critical volume “For Lancelot Andrews”(1928), Eliot

described himself as “a in politics, a in literature, and an in religion.

11.Eliot’s lectures at Harvard University in 1932 resulted in the influential volume .

12.In Alabama, where Fitzgerald was sent for military training, he fell hopelessly in love

with , an embodiment of his romantic notions of a Southern Belle.

13.was a critical success, but a commercial disappointment.

14.In his finest novels, The Great Gatsby and , Fitzgerald had revealed the stridency of an

age of glittering innocence.

15.In vivid and graceful prose, Fitzgerald had portrayed the of the American worship of

riches and the unending American dream of love, , and fulfilled desires.

Answer:

1.Whitman

2.immigrants

3.nonprofessional,

his literary reputation

4.Harmonium

5.ideal, the real

6.philosophy

7.intellect, experience

8.The Waste Land

9.Pound

10.royalist,

classicist, Anglo-Catholic

11.The Uses of Poetry and the

Uses of Criticism

12.Zelda Sayre

13.The Great Gatsby

14.Tender Is the Night

15.hollowness splendor

1.was the first American to be wounded in Italy during the World War I.

2.Hemingway developed a spare, tight, reportorial prose based on sentence structure and

using a vocabulary, precise imagery, and an impersonal, dramatic tone.

3.A nihilistic vision is repeatedly modified by Hemingway’s affirmative assertion of the

possibility of living with and .

4.To Hemingway, man’s greatest achievement is to show under pressure.

5. A Farewell to Arms portrayed a farewell both to and to .

6.In 1952, Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman in The Old Man and the Sea.

7.It was Steinbeck’s most clearly “” novel of class struggle, depicting the lives of migrant

workers and their resistance to exploitation by the entrenched forest of society.

8.Steinbeck’s treatment of of his time, particularly the plight of the , earned him a

Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and, in 1962, a Nobel Prize for literature.

9.The only Faulkner novel that had come close to being a best seller in its day was , a book

more famous for its shock value than for its literary quality.

10.Oxford was with some fictional modifications, a prototype of Jefferson, in the mythical

county of , the setting of and most of Faulkner’s subsequent works.

Answer:

1.Ernest Hemingway

2.simple, restricted

3.style, courage

4.grace

5.war, love

6.Santiago

7.proletarian

8.the social problems, the dispossessed farmer

9.Sanctuary

10.Y oknapatawpha, Sartoris

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one another:he was a very successful businessman and a very remarkable contemporary poet at the same time.（人大2006研） 【答案】Wallace Stevens 【解析】华莱士·史蒂文斯(Wallace Stevens)是美国20世纪的著名诗人。他集企业家和诗人于一身。 5.Winner of the National Book Award in1950and the Pulitzer Prize in1963,______ is the author of the five-volume epic Paterson which is a lucid statement of the author’s aesthetics. 【答案】William Carlos Williams 【解析】威廉·卡洛斯·威廉斯的代表作是《佩特森》，它清晰地表达了诗人的美学观点。 6.At the age of44,Wallace Stevens was finally persuaded to publish a book of poems,entitled_____. 【答案】Harmonium 【解析】1923年，44岁的华莱士-史蒂文斯出版了他的第一部诗集《风琴》（Harmonium）。 7.After his death,Wallace Stevens’s previously uncollected works appeared under the title_____. 【答案】Opus Posthumous 【解析】华莱士·史蒂文斯死后，其之前未收集的诗作集合成册于1957年发表，名为《遗作》(Opus Posthumous)。

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1.C aptain John Smith became the first American writer. 2.T he puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people. collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin. 4.T homas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”.

5.T homas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. has been called the “Father of American Poetry”. 7.I n Washington Irving’s appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.

8.C ooper’s enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five novels that comprise the is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant’s wok. “father of American detective stories and American gothic stories”.

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