华南师范大学《美国文学》考试题库(3)及满分答案

1、华南师范大学美国文学?测试题库3 及总分值答案内容摘要: The trilogy of desire includes the financier, the titan a nd.答案:.The StoicThe poetic style Whitman devised is now called 案:f.The trilogy of desire includes the financier, the titana nd.答案:.The StoicThe poetic style Whitman devised is now called答案:free versePoe' s poe

2、m “The Raven" was an immediate success after its publication.Catching in on that success, Poe wrote an essay elaborating on the process of poetry writing. The essay ' s title is.答案:The Philosophy of Composition“there will be time, there will be time/ to prepare a face to meet thefaces that

3、you meet are lines quoted f rom T.S. eliot ' s poem. 答案:The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockThe Poem “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls " was written by. 答案:Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe first major intellectual spokesman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was John, sometimes called “the Patriarch

4、 of New England. " 答案:CottonSister Carrie traces the material rise of carrie meebera nd the tragicdecline of.答案:G. W. HurstwoodThe novel written by John Steinbeck about the great depressiona nd themigration workers f rom Oklahoma to California is.答案:The Grapes of Wrath“WheneverRichard Cory went

5、 downtown "is the first line in a poemwritten by.答案:Edwin Arlington Robinsonexemplified the secular ideals of the American Enlightenment.答案:Benjamin Franklinwas recognized as the leader of the transcendentalism movement inU.S.答案:Ralph Waldo EmersonO' Henry ' s is a very touching story o

6、f a young couple whosell their best possessions to get money for a Christmas present for each other.答案:The Gift of MagiIn mobydick, was the nameof the whaling ship symbolic of the world with characters ranging f rom thinkers to savages.答案:PequodThe last line in the poem “The Wild Honey Suckle is.答案:

7、The frail duration of a flower“ Call me Ishmael " is the famous opening sentence of the novel答案:Moby Dick“ if i can stop one heart f rom breaking " is a line in a poem written by the american poet.答案:Emily DickinsonThe line following“Tell me not, in mournful numbers in one ofLongfellow 

8、9; s famous poems “A Psalm of Life is.答案:Life is but an empty dream"Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking is a poemwritten by答案:Walt Whitman“ it took dominion everywhere./ the jar was graya nd bare are linesquoted f rom wallace stevens ' s poem.答案:Anecdote of A JarThe Tenth Lately Sprung up

9、in America was the title of a collection of poems by Anne Bradstreet.答案:MuseThe final word “numbers" in the opening line“Tell menot in mournfulnembers of Longfellow ' s poem “A Psalm of Life means 答案:poetic linesIsabel Archer is the heroine of the novel , Henry Jame§ s masterpiece. 答案:

10、The Portrait of a LadyThe first important American autobiography was written by.答案:Brnjamin FranklinEast of Eden is a long novel written by.答案:John Steinbeckis the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.答案:Martin Eden1. The of the 1930s greatly weakened theAmerican nation ' s self-conf

11、idence.答案:Great DepressionThe first line in the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is.答案:Whose woods these are I think I knowThe iceberg style refers to the writing style of the American writer.答案:Ernest HemingwayIn the year 1845, Henry David Thoreau went into woods to live nearly all by him

12、self for almost two years. When he came out, he published a book based on that experience. The book is.答案:WaldenThe novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that bears a direct allusion to the notorious Salem witchcraft trials is.答案:The House of the Seven GablesIn The Great Gatsby, the titular hero was

13、finally shot to death by an avenging husband whose name was.答案:WilsonThe epic poem written by Longfellow with the Indian subject matter was.答案:The Song of Hiawatha“Fair flower that dost so comely grow is the opening line in the poem.答案:The Wild Honey Suckle“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed w

14、as a poem written by Walt Whitman in memory of.答案:Abraham LincoldThe short story “The Open Boat was written by.答案:Stephen Crane“A Noiseless Patient Spider was a short poem written by. 答案:Walt WhitmanThoreau' s essay which later strongly influenced the leader of India's independence movement

15、gandhi a nd the leader of american civil rights movement Martin Luther King, Jr. was entitled.答案:Civil Disobediencecalled his friend Hawthorne the largest brain with the largest heart in American literature.答案:Herman MelvilleIn Dickinson ' s poem “Because I could not stop for Death ,the image of

16、 the“School in the third stanza stands for.答案:youthIn January 1776, a pamphlet entitled boldly advocated adeclaration for independence 答案:Common Sensehas been called the father of American poetry.答案:Philip Freneauexerted strong influence upon manyfrench writers through presenting his dark a nd grote

17、sque fictional world such as the one in the raven.答案:Edgar Allan PoeThe American author who was a direct predecessor of Conan Doyle was答案:Edgar Allan PoeThe short novel The Mysterious Stranger was written by.答案:Mark TwainThe title “Thanatopsis can be translated into English as. 答案:view on deathOne o

18、f Edwin Arlington Robinson ' s early books, Captain Craig, came to the attention of president , who then offered him a clerk ' s job in a customhouse.答案:Theodore RooseveltWhile Emerson was the advocate of transcendentalism, its chief practitioner was no one but.答案:Henry David ThoreauIn a met

19、rical foot of two syllables, if the unaccented syllable is followed by an accented syllable, then this metrical foot is called an.答案:iambAt the inauguration of John F. Kennedy,was invited to read his poetry when he was eighty-seven.答案:Robert Frost“The Young Housewife is a poem written by.答案:William

20、Carlos WilliamsThe Divinity School Address is an essay written by the famous philosopher 答案:Ralph Waldo Emerson, a wanderer who longed for sea adventures, was the narrator of the book Moby Dick.答案:IshmaelRedburn is a short novel written by the American novelist. 答案:Herman MelvilleThe leader of the c

21、ommittee responsible for the drafting of The Declaration of Independence was.答案:Thomas Jefferson“Young Goodman Browrf is a short story written by.答案:Nathaniel HawthorneIn his novels, Hawthorne had scientists a nd doctors pictured unfavorably, among whom, the antagonist in the scarlet letter, seemed

22、to be a nasty villain.答案:Roger ChillingworthThe five novels that comprise the Tales have one central character, NattyBumppo, an American Indian.答案:Leatherstocking“With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do is a famous sentence that appears in Emerson s essay.答案:Self-RelianceThe famous po

23、em “The British Prison Ship was written by. 答案:Philip Freneauthe title of the novel the sound a nd the fury comes f rom a play written by.答案:William ShakespeareAfter his publication of, Whitman was praised by Emerson, who saw some transcendentalist trace in the poet.答案:Leaves of GrassThe first leade

24、r of the Imagist Movement was.答案:Ezra Pound“ Rappaccini' s Daughter is a short story written by.答案:Nathaniel Hawthorne“ he was a gentleman f rom sole to crown,/ clean favored, a nd imperially slim are lines quoted f rom edwin arlington robinson' s poem.答案:Richard CoryEzra pound s major work

25、of poetry is a long poem called.答案:The CantosThe best of the Puritan poets in colonial period was Edward.答案:Taylordescribed himself as “a royalist in politics, a classicist in literature, a nd an anglo-catholic in religion."答案:T. S. EliotThe poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was written

26、 by. 答案:T. S. EliotAfter his death,became the only American to be honored with a bust in Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey.答案:Henry Wadsworth LongfellowA Week on the Concord a nd Merrimack Rivers was written by. 答案:Henry David ThoreauIn Whitman' s life time, altogether editions of Leaves of Gras

27、s werepublished.答案:nineThe first permanent English settlement in North was established at, Virginia. 答案:Jamestown“though as for that, the passing there/ had worn them really about the same are lines quoted f rom robert frost' s poem.答案:The Road Not TakenThe poem “ Hugh Selwyn Mauberley was writt

28、en by.答案:Ezra PoundThe nigger who floats down the Mississippi River on the same raft with HuckleberryFinn is named.答案:JimErnest Hemingway said that all modern american literature came f rom one particular book, which was.答案:Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe title of the novel of mice a nd men comes

29、f rom a poem written by.答案:Robert BurnsThe novel written by Hemingway about the Spanish civil war is. 答案:For Whom the Bell TollsThe first edition of Walt Whitman ' s Leaves of Grass was published in the year 答案:1855Samuel Langhorne Clemens was the real name of.答案:Mark TwainNathaniel Hawthorne s

30、last completed novel was.答案:The Marble Faun“The Minister" s Black Veil is a short story written by.答案:Nathaniel HawthorneWith the publication of The Sun Also Rises,became the spokesmanof theLost Generation.答案:Eanest HemingwayThe short story “Daisy Miller" was written by.答案:Henry JamesThe name of the major villain in The Scarlet Letter is .答案:Roger ChillingworthThe Ame