3. The sound of Whitman’s words casts a magic, romantic spell over
readers. His tone is awesome, sad and melancholy.
4. Haiku, a form of traditional Japanese poetry, greatly influenced the
Imagist movement.
5. Leaves of Grass is Whitman’s life work.
6. Thanks in part to the efforts of Ezra Pound, Robert Frost was published
in England and quickly became recognized as a major American poet. 7. In 1954, T. S. Eliot was awarded a Nobel Prize for his “mastery of the
art of modern narration.”
8. Hemingway believed that a man could find meaning in life by facing his
death with dignity and courage.
9. Thomas Jefferson was famous for powerful, persuasive essays, such as
his pamphlet Common Sense, which persuaded many people to support the American Revolution.
10. William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy, written in 1789, is often
called “the first American novel”.
11. The literary movement of American romanticism was generally divided
into two stages: pre-romanticism and post-romanticism.
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. The Scarlet Letter is called an economical novel because there are only
three chief characters-or four if we include the child Pearl.
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. Literary naturalism may be regarded as the new development of literary
realism, and was sometimes called “pessimistic realism.” The naturalistic writers were philosophical pessimists.
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 Latin meaning
“meditation on death”. 得分 V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer
the questions. (20%)
Passage 1
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Questions:
1. Who is the writer of this poem? _______________(1%) 2. What is the title of this poem? _______________(1%)
3. What images in this poem suggest Haiku poetry and what images are
“modern”? (2%)
4. What is the effect of the parallel between lines one and two of the poem?
And what feeling and meaning does the poem express to you? (2%)
Passage 2
It was late and everyone had left the café except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the daytime the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference.
Questions:
1. This part is from the novel , written by .
(2%)
2. Why does the old man get drunk every night and why did he commit
suicide? (2%)
3. What does the young waiter think of the old man and how does he treat
him? (3%)
Passage 3
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the es-sential 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
It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know. By the name of Annabel Lee; —
And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Questions:
1. The stanza is taken from the poem________________?(1%) 2. The author of the poem is____________ . (1%)
3. What is the most obvious rhetorical device the author uses for effect?
(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%) 得分 VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%)
1. Robert Frost' s The Road Not Taken. （10%）
2. Eugene O' Neill’s Long Day's Journey into Night.（10%）
3. Talk about Adgar Allan Poe's social outlook and writings （10%） 4. Comment on Hawthorne’s style. （10%）
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Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)
1. Frank Norris 2. Stephen Crane 3. Sinclair Lewis 4. Jack London
5. Washington Irving 6. Willa Cather 7. Robert Frost
8. Benjamin Franklin 9. William Faulkner 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne 11. Thomas Jefferson 12. Washington Irving 13. Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 15. Harriet Beecher Stowe 16. Mark Twin
17. Theodore Dreiser 18. T.S. Eliot
19. Ernest Hemingway 20. Eugene O’Neill
Ⅱ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%)
1. John Smith 2. Thomas Paine