美国文学选段分析题

美国文学选段分析题美国文学选段分析题 Passage 1 I celebrate myself and sing myself And what I assume you shall assume For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you I loafe and invite my soul I learn and loa fe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass Questions 1 These are the first two stanzas in the first section of a long poem entitled 2 The name of the poet is 3 Who is the poet celebrating Whom do lines 2 3 also include in the celebration 4 What is the verse structure 5 Take the fifth line as a hint can you write out the name of the poet s completed collections of poems Passage 2 Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves Questions 1 Who is the writer of these lines 2 In which category would you place this poem A narrative B dramatic C lyric 3 Emily Dickinson is noted for her use of to achieve special effects A perfect rhyme B exact rhyme C slant rhyme Passage 3 It is impossible to conceive of a human creature more wholly desolate and forlorn than Eliza when she turned her footsteps from Uncle Tom s cabin Questions 1 This is taken from a famous novel What is the name of the novel 2 What is the name of the writer 3 Who is Uncle Tom Passage 4 Tom Sawyer stepped forward with conceited confidence and soared into the unquenchable and indestructible Give me liberty or give me death speech with fine fury and frantic gesticulation and broke down in the middle of it A ghastly stage fright seized him his legs quaked under him and he was like to choke True he had the manifest sympathy of the house but he had the house s silence too which was even worse than its sympathy The master frowned and this completed the disaster Tom struggled awhile and then retired defeated Questions 1 Which novel is this passage taken from 2 Who is the author Passage 5 I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid and shoved t he vines and branches apart and put it in then I done the same with the side of bacon then the whisky jug I took all the coffee and suga r there was and all the ammunition I took the wadding I took the bucket and gourd took a dipper and a tin cup and my old saw and two blankets and the skillet and the coffee pot I took fish lines and matches and other things everything that was worth a cent I cleaned out the place I wanted an ax but there wasn t any only the one out at the woodpile and 1 knew why I was going to leave that I fetched out the gun and now I was done Questions 1 Which novel is this passage taken from 2 Analyse the language style of this passage Passage 6 On his bench in Madison Square Soapy moved uneasily When wild geese honk high of nights and when women without sealskin coats grow kind to their husbands and when Soapy moves uneasily on his bench in the park you may know that winter is near at hand Questions 1 This passage is taken from a short story entitled 2 The author s name is William Sidney Porter What is his pen name Passage 7 Isabel always felt an impulse to pull out the pins not that she imagined they inflicted any damage on the tough old parchment but because it seemed to her her aunt might make better use of her sharpness She was very critical herself it was incidental to her sex and her nationality but she was very sentimental as well and there was something in Mrs Touchett s dryness that set her own moral fountains flowing Now what s your point of view she asked of her aunt When you criticize everything here you should have a point of view Yours doesn t seem to be American you thought everything over there so disagreeable When I have mine it s thoroughly American My dear young lady said Mrs Touchett there are as many points of view in the world as there are people of sense to take them You may say that doesn t make them very numerous American Never in the world that s shockingly narrow My point of view thank God is personal Isabel thought this a better answer than she admitted it was a tolerable description of her own manner of judging but it would not have sounded well for her to say so Questions 1 This passage is taken from a well known novel What is the name of the novel 2 Who is the author of this novel 3 Make a brief comment on the heroine Isabel Archer 4 What is Jamesian theme Passage 8 He went back to the text and lost himself He did not notice that a young woman had entered the room The first he knew was when he heard Arthur s voice saying Ruth this is Mr Eden The book was closed on his forefinger and before he turned he was thrilling to the first new impression which was not of the girl but of her brother s words Under that muscled body of his he was a mass of quivering sensibilities At the slightest impact of the outside world upon his consciousness his thoughts sympathies and emotions leapt and played like lambent flame He was extraordinarily receptive and responsive while his imagination pitched high was ever at work es tablishing relations of likeness and difference Mr Eden was what he had thrilled to he who had been called Eden or Martin Eden or just Martin all his life And Mister It was certainly going some was his internal comment His mind seemed to turn on the instant into a vast camera obscure Questions 1 What is the name of the novel from which this passage is taken 2 Whom does the first word He refer to 3 Who is the author of this novel Passage 9 When a girl leaves her home at eighteen she does one of two things Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse Of an intermediate balance under the circumstances there is no possibility The city has its cunning wiles no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman A blare of sound a roar of life a vast array of human hives appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear Unrecognised for what they are their beauty like music too often relaxes then weakens then perverts the simpler human perceptions Questions 1 From which novel is this paragraph taken 2 Who is the author of this nov