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6. Ernest Hemingway developed a spare, tight, reportorial prose based on simple sentence structure and using a restricted vocabulary, precise imagery, and an impersonal, dramatic tone.
7.John Steinbeck' s theme was usually that simple human virtues such as kindness and fair treatment were far superior to official hard-heartedness, or the dehumanizing cruelty of exploiters for their own commercial advantage.
8. Short-lived, the Imagist movement failed to exert a tremendous influence on modern poetry.
9. Robert Frost won four Nobel Prizes in his life.
10.In his novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald had revealed the stridency of an age of glittering innocence, he had portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of love, splendor and fulfilled desires.
11.Of Plymouth Plantation was written by William Bradford.
12.Realists thought highly of individual status and role in the world. The romanticists preferred the innate or intuitive perception by the heart of man. They thought that man was essentially of goodwill, only the civilized society made him degenerate. They pointed out, the means to uproot evils and to save mankind was habits, and to return to “natural primitive state”.
13. Deists believed in a Creator God, but rejected providence(Godly direction) and
revelation (divine will or Godly \
14..President Lincoln praised Anne Bradstreet as “the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”
15. Edgar Allan Poe wrote two poems both entitled “ To Helen”.
16.The thinking of Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau also greatly influenced the active thinking of Americans who became increasingly concerned with the possibility of building a government. Locke and Rousseau represented the impulse for a Jeffersonian democracy, and Hobbes represented the point of view, often expressed by Hamilton, of a strong central government.
17.Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong to the school of “Beat Generation”.
18.F. Scott Fitzgerald is called the leader and poet laureate of the Jazz Age who wrote the novels of the Jazz Age.
19.Yoknapatawpha saga is a name for John Steinbeck’s novels.
20.“Thanatopsis” is a word Bryant borrowed from Greek meaning “meditation on death”.
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V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the
questions. (20%)
Passage One
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Lo! in you brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy-Land!
Questions:
1. This is the last stanza of a poem “To Helen”. Its writer is
____________________.(1%)
2. With whom is Helen associated in this stanza? (1%) 3. How to appreciate the beauty of this poem? (3%)
Passage 2
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference
Questions:
1. Who is the writer of this poem? (1%) 2. What is the title of this poem? (1%)
3. What kind of feeling does this stanza show? (3%)
4. How do you appreciate this poem? (3%)
Passage 3
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by
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experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God.
Questions:
1. This passage is taken from a famous work entitled _________ . (1%)
2. The author of the work is____________ . (1%)
3. List by yourself at least five reasons that the author gives for going to live in the
woods. (5%)
Passage 4
But, on one side of the portal（入口），and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be
imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him. Questions:
1. This part is from the novel , written by . (2%) 2. What does “the wild rose bush” symbolize according to your opinion? (5%)
Passage 5
Often I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea;
Often in thought go up and down
The pleasant streets of that dear old town, And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of a Lapland song Is haunting my memory still: \
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.\
Questions:
1. The stanza is taken from the poem________________?(1%) 2. The author of the poem is____________ . (1%)
3. The seventh line in each Stanza of this poem contains a key word, usually a
verb, which sums up the feeling established in the stanza. What is the verb and what kind feeling that it conveys?(4%)
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Passage 6
Thou hast an house on high erect, Framed by that mighty Architect, With glory richly furnished,
Stands permanent though this be fled. It’s purchased and paid for too By Him who hath enough to do.
Questions:
1. This stanza is taken from the poem
__________________________by____________.(2%) 2. What is one’s real house according to the poet? (5%)
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VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%)
1. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. （10%）
2. Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death”.（10%） 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance. （10%）
《美国文学》期末考试试卷B卷答案暨评分标准
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Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Benjamin Franklin Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan Poe Willa Cather Sinclair Lewis
Tennessee Williams Stephen Crane
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