美国文学分章练习题题及答案

42. Henry David Thoreau 43. Nathaniel Hawthorne 44. Nathaniel Hawthorne 45. Clarel 46. Moby Dick

III. Make multiple choices

1. C

2. ABCD 3. D 4. B

5. ABCD 6. ABCD 7. B 8. A 9. B 10. D 11. A 12. C 13. ABC 14. ABC 15. B

16. ABCD 17. ABCD 18. AB 19. C 20. BC 21. ABCD 22. ABCD 23. D

24. ABCD 25. D 26. A 27. C 28. A 29. A

30. ABCD 31. E 32. A

33. ABCD 34. B 35. C

36. ABCDE 37. A

38. ABCD 39. AB 40. B 41. A

42. ABCDE 43. A 44. A 45. B 46. ABC 47. ABC 48. B

IV. Identify the fragments.

passage 1

1. Washington Irving

2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

3. A short story is a brief prose Fiction, usually one that can be read in a single sitting.

It generally contains the six major elements of fiction—characterization, setting, theme, plot, point of view and style.

passage 2

1. James Fenimore Cooper 2. The Last of the Mohicans 3. Hawkeye

passage 3

1. 2. 3. 4.

Thanatopsis View of death A

Nature speaks to him who in the love of Nature holds communion with nature ' s visible forms. Nature responds to two human moods, one is gayness; the other is gloominess, or sadness.

passage 4

1. 2. 3. 4.

Edgar Allan Poe The Raven

LI—Alliteration, L4—Onomatopoeia, L7—Internal rhyme, L10—Assonance

A sense of melancholy over the death of a beloved beautiful young woman pervades the whole poem, the portrayal of a young man grieving for his lost Leno-re, his grief

turned to madness under the steady one-word repetition of the talking bird.

passage 5

1. Edgar Allan Poe 2. Psyche

3. Psyche is the goddess of the soul in Greek mythology.

passge 6

1. Nature

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. Then, the men cannot believe and adore the God, cannot preserve there membrance

of the city of God which had been shown. 4. Transcendentalism

passage 7

1. Nature

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson regards nature as the purest, and the most sanctifying moral

influence on man, and advocated a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature. In this connection, Emerson' s emotional experiences are exemplary in more ways than one.

3. Now this is a moment of \

outside world, when one has completely sunk into nature and become one with it, and when the soul has gone beyond the physical limits of the body to share the omniscience of the Oversoul. In a word, the soul has completely transcended the limits of individuality and become part of the Oversoul. Emerson sees spirit perva-ding everywhere, not only in the soul of man, but behind nature, throughout nature.

passage 8

1. Walden

2. Henry David Thoreau

3. Find the answer from the passage.

passage 9

1. Self-Reliance

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. He believed above all in individualism, independence of mind, and self-reliance.

passage 10

1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. A Psalm of Ufe

3. His optimism which has characterized much of his poetry, also endeared many

critics to him. He seemed to have persevered despite tragedy. In his poem, The Psalm of Life, he writes:

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal.

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This is the cry of the heart, \regroup from losses, to push on despite momentary defeat.

passage 11

1. The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne 2. adultery, able, angel

passage 12

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

The captain of the whaling ship The name of the whaling ship

The rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab against the overwhelming, mysterious vastness of the universe and its awesome sometimes merciless forces.

VI. Analyze the main works.

Work 3: Nuture

1. As the leading New England Transcendentalist, Emerson effected a most articulate

synthesis of the Transcendentalist views. One major element of his philosophy if his firm belief in the transcendence of the \through virtually all his writings. \Nature, which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism, %universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. \and emphasizes the need for idealism, for idealism sees the world in God. \the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion, as one vast picture which God paints on the eternity for the contemplation of the soul. \man, and advocated a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature. In this connection, Emerson' s emotional experiences are exemplary in more ways than one. Alone in the woods one day, for instance, he experienced a moment of \