美国文学史及选读期末复习题

2021年1月22日发(作者：毛周)
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1.

Poor
Richard
’
s
Almanac

is
an
annual
collection
of
proverbs
written by Benjamin Franklin.
2.

Philip Freneau developed a natural, simple, and concrete
diction,
best
illustrated
in
such
nature
lyrics
as
“
The
Wild
Honey Suckle
”
and
“
The Indian Burying Ground
”
.

3.

Philip Freneau has been called the
“
Father of American
Poetry
”
.

4.

In
Washington
Irving
’
s
Sketch
Book
appeared
the
first
modern short stories and the first great American juvenile
literature.

5.


“
To a Waterfowl
”
is perhaps the peak of William Cullen
Bryant
’
s wok.

6.

“
Thanatopsis, William Cullen Bryant
’
s best-known poem,
consists
of
four
stanzas
in
iambic
tetrameter
abab.
The
title
means
“
view of death
”
.

7.

Edgar
Allan
Poe
is
considered
“
father
of
American
detective
stories and American gothic stories
”
.

8.

Emerson believed above all in individualism, independence
of mind, and self-reliance.

9.

In Walden, Thoreau thought it better for a man to work one
day a week and rest six, and the rest of the time could be
devoted to thought.


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10.

Hawthorne
’
s stories touch the deepest roots of man
’
s
moral nature.

11.

After his death, Longfellow became the only American to
be honored with a bust in the Poet
’
s Corner of Westminster
Abbey.

12.

The
poetic
style
Walt
Whitman
devised
is
now
called
free
verse.

13.

Henry
James
is
famous
for
his
international
theme
of
the
tradition
less
American
confronting
the
complexity
of
European life.

14.

Jack London believed in the inevitable triumph of the
strongest individuals.

Terms

1.

Transcendentalism

2. Naturalism

3. The Lost Generation

5. Modernism

6. Romanticism

7. Puritanism

Identify the fragments.

2. From morning suns and evening dews

At first thy little being came;


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If nothing once, you nothing lose,

For when you die you are the same;

The space between, is but an hour,

The frail duration of a flower.

(1) Who is the writer of these verses?

(2) What is the title of this poem?

(3) Give a brief comment on this poems.

Answer:

(1) Philip Freneau

(2) The Wild Honeysuckle

(3) Here Freneau offers a version of an abundant America with
potential for providing a good life for all. The poem is also
an indication of his dedication to American subject matter as
he
examined
peculiarly
American
characteristics
of
the
countryside.

3.

From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar
character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the
original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been
known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are
called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring
country.
Drowsy
and
dreamy
influence
seems
to
hang
over
the
land,
and
to
pervade
the
very
atmosphere.
Some
say
that
the
place
was

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bewitched
by
a
high
German
doctor,
during
the
early
days
of
the
settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or
wizard
of
his
tribe,
held
his
powwows
there
before
the
country
was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson.

Question:

(1)
Who
is
the
writer
of
this
short
story
from
which
the
passage
is taken?

(2) What is the title of this short story?

(3) Give a definition of
“
short story
”
?

Answer:

(1) Washington Irving

(2) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

(3) A short story is a brief prose fiction, usually one that
can be
read
in a
single
sitting.
It
generally contains
the
six
major elements of fiction characterization, setting, theme,
plot, point of view and style.

5. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his
chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and
write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone,
let
him
look
at
the
stars.
The
rays
that
come
from
those
heavenly
worlds,
will
separate
between
him
and
vulgar
things.
One
might
think
the
atmosphere
was
made
transparent
with
this
design,
to