华南师范大学《美国文学》考试题库（3）

The trilogy of desire includes the financier, the titan ａnd _____.
答案:. The Stoic
The poetic style Whitman devised is now called _________
答案:free verse
Poe’s poem “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 the faces that you meet” are lines quoted ｆrom T.S. eliot’s poem _______.
答案:The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Poem “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” was written by _______________.
答案:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The first major intellectual spokesman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was John ___, sometimes called “the Patriarch of New England.”
答案:Cotton
Sister Carrie traces the material rise of carrie meeber ａnd the tragic decline of _____.
答案:G. W. Hurstwood
The novel written by John Steinbeck about the great depression ａnd the migration workers ｆrom Oklahoma to California is ___________.
答案:The Grapes of Wrath
“Whenever Richard Cory went down town” is the first line in a poem written by ___________.
答案:Edwin Arlington Robinson
______ exemplified the secular ideals of the American Enlightenment.
答案:Benjamin Franklin
____ was recognized as the leader of the transcendentalism movement in U.S.
答案:Ralph Waldo Emerson
O’ Henry’ s ___ is a very touching story of a young couple who sell their best possessions to get money for a Christmas present for each other.
答案:The Gift of Magi
In moby dick, _____ was the name of the whaling ship symbolic of the world with characters ranging ｆrom thinkers to savages.
答案:Pequod
The last line in the poem “The Wild Honey Suckle” is ______________.
答案: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 ｆrom breaking” is a line in a poem written by the american poet_____________.
答案:Emily Dickinson
The line following “Tell me not, in mournful numbers” in one of Longfellow’s famous poems “A Psalm of Life” is _______________.
答案:Life is but an empty dream
"Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking” is a poem written by __________.
答案:Walt Whitman
“it took dominion everywhere./ the jar was gray ａnd bare” are lines quoted ｆrom wallace stevens’s poem __________.
答案:Anecdote of A Jar
The Tenth ____ Lately Sprung up in America was the title of a collection of poems by Anne Bradstreet.
答案:Muse
The final word “numbers” in the opening line “Tell me not in mournful nembers” of Longfellow’s poem “A Psalm of Life” means _____________.
答案:poetic lines
Isabel Archer is the heroine of the novel ___, Henry James’s masterpiece.
答案:The Portrait of a Lady
The first important American autobiography was written by _______.
答案:Brnjamin Franklin
East of Eden is a long novel written by _________.
答案:John Steinbeck
_____ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.
答案:Martin Eden
1. The ____ of the 1930s greatly weakened the
American nation’s self-confidence.
答案:Great Depression
The first line in the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is _________.
答案:Whose woods these are I think I know
The iceberg style refers to the writing style of the American writer __________.
答案:Ernest Hemingway
In the year 1845, Henry David Thoreau went into woods to live nearly all by himself for almost two years. When he came out, he published a book based on that experience. The book is ___________.
答案:Walden
The novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that bears a direct allusion to the notorious Salem witchcraft trials is ________________.
答案:The House of the Seven Gables
In The Great Gatsby, the titular hero was finally shot to death by an avenging husband whose name was _______.
答案:Wilson
The 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” was a poem written by Walt Whitman in memory of __________.
答案:Abraham Lincold
The 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 Whitman
Thoreau’s essay which later strongly influenced the leader of India’s independence movement gandhi ａnd the leader of american civil rights movement Martin Luther King, Jr. was entitled ____________.
答案:Civil Disobedience
___ called his friend Hawthorne the largest brain with the largest heart in American literature.
答案:Herman Melville
In Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death”, the image of the “School” in the third stanza stands for _____________.
答案:youth
In January 1776, a pamphlet entitled ________ boldly advocated a declaration for independence
答案:Common Sense
______ has been called the father of American poetry.
答案:Philip Freneau
____ exerted strong influence upon many french writers through presenting his dark ａnd grotesque fictional world such as the one in the raven.
答案:Edgar Allan Poe
The American author who was a direct predecessor of Conan Doyle was ________________.
答案:Edgar Allan Poe
The short novel The Mysterious Stranger was written by __________.
答案:Mark Twain
The title “Thanatopsis” can be translated into English as ___________.
答案:view on death
One of 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 Roosevelt
While Emerson was the advocate of transcendentalism, its chief practitioner was no one but ________.
答案:Henry David Thoreau
In a metrical foot of two syllables, if the unaccented syllable is followed by an accented syllable, then this metrical foot is called an ___________.
答案:iamb