19.Yoknapatawpha saga is a name for John Steinbeck’s novels.
20.“Thanatopsis” is a word Bryant borrowed from Greek meaning “meditation on death”.
V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)
Passage One
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
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%)
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%)
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
Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)
1. Benjamin Franklin 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 3. Edgar Allan Poe 4. Willa Cather 5. Sinclair Lewis
6. Tennessee Williams 7. Stephen Crane 8. Ernest Hemingway 9. Jack London 10. Eugene O’Neill 11. Thomas Paine 12. Washington Irving 13. Henry David Thoreau
14. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 15. Harriet Beecher Stowe 16. Mark Twin
17. Theodore Dreiser 18. T.S. Eliot
19. Ernest Hemingway
20. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ⅱ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%)
1. Edgar Allan Poe 2. Mark Twain 3. Imagism
4. The Great Gatsby 5. Sinclair Lewis 6. John Smith 7. Ezra Pound 8. Walt Whitman
9. William Cullen Bryant 10. Picaresque novel
Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (2*15=30%)
1 6 11 B A C 2 7 12 D B B 3 8 13 A C D 4 9 14 B A B 5 10 15 D A A IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are
true or false. (1*10=10%)
1 6 11 16
V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the
T T T T 2 7 12 17 F T F F 3 8 13 18 T F T T 4 9 14 19 T F F F 5 10 15 20 F T T T questions. (20%)
Passage 1
1.Edgar Allan Poe (1) 2.Psyche (1)
3.The beauty of form. （diction，rhyme and rhythm，rhetorical devices.） The beauty of content. (3) Passage 2
1. Robert Frost(1)
2. \
3. This poem is written in classic five-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-a-b and conversational rhythm. The poem seems to be about the poet, walking in the woods in autumn, choosing which road he should follow on his walk. In reality, it concerns the important decisions which one must make in life, when one must give up one desirable thing in order to possess another. Then, whatever the outcome, one must accept the consequences of one' s choice for it is not possible to go back and have another chance to choose differently.
4. In the poem, the poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which road to take, because they are both pretty. In the end, he follows the one which seems to have fewer travelers on it. Symbolically, he chose to follow an unusual, solitary life; perhaps he was speaking of his choice to become a poet rather than some commoner profession. But he always remembers the road which he might have taken, and which would have given him a different kind of life. Passage 3 Walden (1)
Henry David Thoreau (1)
Find the answer from the passage. (5) Passage 4
1. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne. (2) 2. life and liberty.(2) Passage 5
1. My Lost Youth.(1)
2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1)
3. “haunting\ sums up the feeling that was begun earlier with \\Passage 6
1. Upon the Burning of Our House, Anne Bradstreet.(2)
2. One's real house is in heaven, built by the great architect, God. (2)
VI. Choose TWO of the three passages and comment on them. (20%)
1. Analyze Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. （10%）
2. Analyze Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death”.（10%） 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance. （10%）
The score is given to the theme, (7) content (6) and writing style(7) of the work chosen.