美国文学 选择题 诗歌分析题 有答案(5)

很有用的 美国文学选读 自考本科资料 试题

Answer:

1) About the sea adventure: it symbols the voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe; a spirit exploration into man’s deep reality and psychology;

2) About the boat; it symbols the society, and the crew symbol all kinds of people with different social and ethnic ideas;

3) About the white whale: To the author, it symbols nature, it is a complex, unfathomable and beautiful; To the captain Ahab, it is evilness, is a wall. So he will lead all his crew to cut through the wall to dig out all the unknown, mysterious things behind it. To the narrator, Ishmael, it is a mystery. (P460—461)

7. Walt Whitman is a unique poet. Can you explain what make him unique?

Answer:

1) His themes are: Democracy; the Revolutionary War and the Civil War; freedom; openness; brotherhood; individualism; the growth of industry and the wealth of the cities; universality.

2) His styles are special: "free verse"; "catalogue"; simple and even crude language. (P448-551)

PART TWO: AMERICAN LITERATURE

Chapter 2 The Realistic Period

I. Choose the right answer:

1. Emily Dickinson was sometimes curious about the feeling of speech of death and in one of her poems she wrote about the______of death, the title of the poem is "I heard a Fly buzz when I died".

A. moment B. suffering C. happiness D. meaning

Answer: A (P518)

2. Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary ______which emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.

A. naturalism B. realism C. determinism D. humanism

Answer: A (P524)

3. More than five hundred poems that Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general _____about the relationship between man and nature is well expressed.

A. skepticism B. eulogy C. happiness D. denial

Answer: A (P518)

4. "This is my letter to the World" is a poem expressing Emily Dickinson’s _____about her communication with the outside world.

A. happinessB. angerC. Anxiety D. sorrow

Answer: C (P520)

5. Though secluded herself in her own house, Emily Dickinson was never really indifferent of the outside world, as could be seen in her poems such as "I like to see it lap the Miles", which describes a(n) ______, an embodiment of modern civilization.

A. snake B. animal C. the road D. train

Answer: D (P521)

6. After "The Adventure of Tom Sawyer", Twain gives a literary independence to Tom’s buddy Huck in a book called_____, and the book from which "all modern American literature comes".

A. Life on the Mississippi River B. The Gilded Age C. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. The Sun Also Rises 5 美国文学 单选题 诗歌分析题

Answer: C (P479---480)

7. Winterbourne is used as a ______in Henry James’s "Daisy Miller".