绗?/p>
1
椤?/p>
鍏?/p>
6
椤?/p>
1
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I.
True or false choices: 20% (One point for each item)
(
)
1.
Modern
poetry
is
鈥渢he
poem
of
the
mind
in
the
act
of
finding
/
What
will
suffice.鈥?/p>
This is the opinion of Walt Whitman.
(
) 2. Robert Frost experimented with form, as many poets did in the 1920s.
(
) 3.
Emperor Jones
represents one of O
鈥?/p>
Neil
鈥?/p>
s attempts to place plot elements and
themes of Greek tragedy in a rural New England setting.
(
) 4.
鈥?/p>
Looking for Mr. Green
鈥?/p>
is a story of
Mosby
鈥?/p>
s Memories and other Stories
.
(
) 5. Bellow will be remembered for the biting social criticism of his novels, and of
course, for his riotous sense of humor.
(
) 6.
Hester鈥檚 letter 鈥淎鈥?nbsp;eventually come
s
to represent 鈥?/p>
Angel
鈥?/p>
and
鈥?/p>
Able
鈥?/p>
to the
townspeople.
(
) 7. Poe stresses rhythm, defines true poetry as
鈥?/p>
the rhythmical creation of beauty,
鈥?/p>
and declares that
鈥?/p>
music is the perfection of the soul, or idea, of poetry.
鈥?/p>
(
)
8.All
three
parts
of
Franklin's
autobiography
were
published
and
released
together in English for the first time in 1868.
(
)
9.
New
England
Transcendentalism
was
important
to
American
literature.
It
inspired a whole new generation of famous authors such as Thoreau, Melville,
Whitman, and Dickinson.
(
) 10. The setting of
鈥?/p>
Looking for Mr. Green
鈥?/p>
is Depression Columbus.
(
) 11. There are four survivors in
The Open Boat
: the captain, the oiler, the cook
and the correspondent.
(
) 12. In
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
, Porter narrated the story sometimes in
chronological order and sometimes in flashback, and the chronological time
is more important than the psychological time.
(
) 13. Fitzgerald
鈥?/p>
s
The Great Gatsby
is set in The Roaring Twenties.
(
) 14. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and the
Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1962.
(
)
15.
The
point
of
view
in
Barn
Burning
is
the
third
person
narration
and
the
narrator is omniscient.
(
) 16.
鈥?/p>
The dignity of movement
of
iceberg is
due to
only one-eighth
of it being
above water
鈥?/p>
is put forward by Fitzgerald.
(
) 17. In
鈥?/p>
A Psalm of Life
鈥?/p>
, the poet sings a song for the everlasting friendship.
(
)
18.
In
鈥?/p>
To
Helen
鈥?/p>
,
Poe
employed
a
lot
similes,
metaphors
and
allusions
to
portray Helen
鈥?/p>
s beauty.
(
) 19. Walt Whiteman
鈥?/p>
s poems are noted for the free verse.
(
) 20. Ralph Waldo Ellison was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953.
II.
Match
the
following
writers
and
their
works:
10%
(One
point
for
each
item)
Writers:
(
) 1. Edgar Allan Poe
(
) 2. Walt Whiteman