华南师范大学《美国文学》考试题库（2）

As a literary movement, American Realism came in the latter half of the nineteeth century, as a reaction against the lie of romanticism.
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The first American poet to be translated into Chinese is Walt Whitman.
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A Shakespearean Sonnet is a short poem with fourteen iambic pentameter lines rhymed ababcdcdefefgg.
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thoreau was an active transcendentalist who was an escapist ｏr a recluse detached ｆrom the life of his day.
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The Great Gatsby was a novel written by Fitzgerald partially based on his own life experience.
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american naturalism, like romanticism, had come ｆrom germany.
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“The Purloined Letter” is a detective story.
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Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable.
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Henry David Thoreau once built a cabin beside the lake of Walden on the land of his neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Poe was a predecessor of the later British detective writer Conan Doyle.
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The most important Southern writer is Robert Penn Warren who was the author of the poem “All the King’s Men”.
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Leatherstocking Tales is a novel of the series The Last of Mohicans written by James Fenimore Cooper.
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John Stwinbeck didn't win a Nobel Prize because he was sympathetic with the working class people.
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Cooper’s claim to greatness in American literature lies in the fact that he created a myth about the formative period of the American nation.
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The short story writer O.Henry was once put into prison because he was a Nazi.
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Though Emily Dickinson married twice in her life, love had never been a major theme in her poetry.
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"Declaration of Independence" was drafted by Benjamin Franklin alone.
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The poet Robert Frost wrote in traditional rhyme schemes, but his themes are very modern.
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An Italian Sonnet is a short poem with fourteen iambic pentameter lines rhymed abbaabbacdecde.
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The Second World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment, breeding what is called modernism.
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“The Premature Burial” is a detective story written by Poe.
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The foundation of American national literature was laid by the early American romanticists.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was a representative figure of the American Transcendentalism.
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The Puritan style of writing is characterized by simplicity, which left an indelible imprint on American writings.
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Stream of Consciousness is a minor technique that William Faulkner employed in his novels.
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Hawthorne, who seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin ａnd veil, never showed a positive part of the life.
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As a novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne was deeply influenced by Puritanism.
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Emerson’s prose style was sometimes as highly individualistic as his dramas.
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The famous philosopher Williams James was the novelist Henry James' brother.
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Besides Moby Dick, Melville also wrote some other sea novels.
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life ａnd death is a major theme in emily dickinson’s poems.
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Henry James’s greatest influence was exerted not on his own age but on the one that followed.
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Jack London was usually considered as a romanticist for his portrayal of superman heroes.
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Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was about the Spanish Civil War.
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benjamin franklin was a prose stylist whose writing reflected the romantic ideals of clarity, restraint, simplicity ａnd balance.
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The 19th century female poet Emily Dickinson was a forerunner of the modern Imagist poetry.
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The detective created by Poe was named Dubin.
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Longfellow’s poems belong to the darker aspect of the Romantic Movement.
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emerson always applied the term transcendentalist to himself ｏr to his beliefs, fｏr he was the acknowledged leader of the movement.
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The House of the Seven Gables is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne based on his experience in the Brook Farm.
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"In a Station of the Metro" is a short poem written by Ezra Pound.
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"Tell me not, in mournful numbers" is a line in Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life".
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"A Rose for Emily" is a Gothic short story written by William Faulkner.
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Immediately after their arrival in america, the american puritans became more preoccupied with business ａnd profits, as they had to be in the grim struggle for survival.
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Many of Poe’s Gothic tales bear the theme of claustrophobia.
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"Tell me not, in mournful numbers" is a line in Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life".
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By the end of the nineteenth century, the realists rejected the portrayal of idealized characters ａnd events.
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