美国文学赏析复习

1、 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 LandGroup 2 作品中人物与作品连线Column A Column B(

2、 ) 1. Benjy a. Sister Carrie( ) 2. George Hurstwood b. The Sound and the Fury( ) 3. Emily c. Mrs Warrens 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. PaineB. Franklin(富兰克林)C.

3、FreneauD. JeffersonFrom 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 AutobiographyB. Poor Richards Almanac(可怜的李察年鉴)C. Common SenseD .The General Magazine_ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental

4、 Club.(是最主要的精神超越的俱乐部)A. Henry David ThoreauB. Ralph Waldo Emerson(拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生)C. Nathanial HawthorneD. Walt WhitmanTranscendentalists（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. logicC. data of the sensesD. thinkingThe common thread throughout

5、 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. RevolutionB. ReasonC. Individualism(个人主义)D. RationalismThe 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-relianceC.The America

6、n ScholarD. 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

7、_.(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 animalC. The orientation that emphasizes th

8、ose features which men have in commonD. The modes of thinkingMark 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. GrandB. pompousC. simpleD. 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

9、所周知的地方色彩）A. international themeB. waste-land imageryC. local color（地方色彩）D. symbolismThe 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 ageB. the silver ageC.the gilded age（镀金时代）D. the roaring ageThe impact of Darwins evolutionary theory on the American tho

10、ught 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. modernismB. Naturalism（自然主义）C. VernacularismD. local colorismWhich of the following figures doe

11、s not belong to “The Lost Generation”?（不属于下列哪个人物迷惘的一代吗）A. Ezra PoundB. William Carlos WilliamsC. Robert FrostD. Theodore Dreiser（西奥多·德莱塞）The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except _.（下列作家获得诺贝尔文学奖,除了f·斯科特。菲茨杰拉德）A. William FaulknerB. F. Scott. Fitzgerald （f·斯科特

12、。菲茨杰拉德）C. John SteinbeckD. Ernest HemingwayWho, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”?（最重要的诗人之一,他的时间,是一个领先的意象派运动的发言人吗）A. J. D. SalingerB. Ezra Pound（埃兹拉·庞德）C. Richard WrightD. Ralph EllisonTheodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of A

13、mericans _.（西奥多·德莱塞被普遍认为是一个美国的博物学家）A. naturalists（博物学家）B. realistsC. modernistsD. romanticistsThe book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to _.（这本书的所有现代美国文学是指哈克贝利·费恩历险记的冒险）A. The Great GatsbyB. The Sun Also RisesC. The Adventure of Huckleberry FinnD. Moby Dick （哈克贝里费恩

14、历险记）The American “Thirties”, lasted from the Crash(股市崩盘), through the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak (开始) of the Second World War in 1939. This was a period of _. （美国30多岁,持续崩溃,随之而来的大萧条,直到第二次世界大战爆发于1939年。这是一个所有上述的时期）A. povertyB. important social movementsC. a new social consciousness （意

15、识）D. all of the above（所有上述） “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _.（在人群中这些面孔幽灵;花瓣洒在湿的时候,黑色的大树枝。这是最短的诗写的庞德）A.T. S. Eliot B. Robert FrostC. Ezra Pound（伊兹拉·庞德）D. E. E. CummingsEarly in the 20th century, _ published works t

16、hat would change the nature of American poetry.（在20世纪早期,庞德和t·s·艾略特发表作品,将改变美国诗歌的本质。）A. Ezra PoundB. T. S. EliotC. Robert FrostD. Both A and B The imagist writers followed three principles; they respectively are direct treatment, economy of expression and _.（意象派诗人作家遵循三个原则,它们分别是直接治疗,经济的表达和清晰的

17、节奏）A. clear rhythm（清晰的节奏） B. blank verseC. free verse D. heroic couplet “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both” In the above two lines of Robert Frosts The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _. （黄色的树林里分出两条路,对不起我不能旅行都在上面的两行罗伯特·弗罗斯特年代没有选择的那条

18、路,诗人,含义,指的是一个年代的生活）A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. ones course of life（一个年代的生活）In Faulkners The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called _ in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.（在福克纳年代喧嚣与愤怒,他使用了一种叫做意识流,整个故事被告知通过一个字符的想法）A. s

19、tream of consciousness（意识流）B. imagismC. symbolism D. naturalismYoknapatawpha county is an imagery land invented by _.（Yoknapatawpha县是一个意象土地由威廉·福克纳）A. William Faulkner（威廉·福克纳）B. Thomas HardyC. Balzac D. Theodore Dreiser_ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which repre

20、sented different social forces: the old decaying (衰败的) upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous(厚颜无耻的)class of the “poor Whites”; and the Negroes who labored for both of them. （福克纳写在南方社会的发明家庭代表不同的社会力量:旧的腐朽的上层阶级,上升,雄心勃勃,肆无忌惮的阶级的贫穷的白人,黑人的困难）A. Faulkner（福克纳） B. FitzgeraldC. Hemmingway D. Steinb

21、eckPassage 1Whose woods these are I think I know, （我想我知道林子的主人是谁，His house is in the village though. 他的房子是在村里。He will not see me stopping here 他不会看到我停留于此，To watch his woods fill up with snow. 伫望他的树林白雪无垠。）The woods are lovely, dark and deep. （ 树林是可爱的,又黑又深。But I have promises to keep, 但我有承诺保持，And miles

22、 to go before I sleep. 和英里要走我的睡眠。And miles to go before I sleep. 和英里要走我的睡眠。）Questions:1. Who is the Author of this poem? Robert Frost （罗伯特·弗罗斯特）2. What does “sleep” refer to? death (死亡)Passage 2A Red, Red RoseO my luves(love) like a red, red rose, (哦我的爱人(爱)像一个红色,红玫瑰Thats newly sprung in June; 六

23、月里迎风初开; O my luves like the melodie (悦耳的音乐) 我的爱人像旋律Thats sweetly playd in tune. 这年代甜美d合拍。)The Sick RoseRose, thou art (古英语，相当于you are) sick!The invisible (无形的、看不见的) worm (虫子)That flies in the night,In the howling storm,Has found out thy bedOf crimson (深红色的、绯红色) joyAnd his dark secret love Does the l

24、ife destroy.Questions:1. What does the ROSE stand for in both poems? love2. In the second poem, why is the rose sick? Because of invisible worm (因为看不见的虫子)3. Compare the image of rose in these two poems. (In "a red, red rose, the rose is a symbol of beautiful love;And in the "the sick rose&

25、quot;, it is a rose with pathological。在一朵红红的玫瑰中，玫瑰象征着美丽爱情；而在生病的玫瑰，则是玫瑰以病态出现。)Passage 3Standing on the bare ground,my head bathed by the blithe(快乐的) air, and uplifted into infinite (无限的) space,all mean egotism (自私自利、自我中心) vanishes (消失). I become a transparent (透明的) eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all;

26、the currents of the Universal Being circulate (循环) through me; I am part and particle of God.”Questions:1. Who wrote this passage? R. W. Emerson （r·w·爱默生）2. Which book does this quoted passage come from? Nature（自然）3. Can you retell the main idea of this passage in your own word? Oneness/ha

27、rmony between human and nature（合一、人与自然之间的和谐）1. Who is your favorite American writer? What is his/her masterwork? Why do you like him/her? ( The writers and the works are not confined to (局限于) those we have mentioned in class.) (15 points)2. What is the relationship between wars and American literature? (U.S. has gone through the Independence War, the civil war, WWI, WWII, a