美国文学练习题答案3

1-5 ACACD 6-10AADDA 11-15DDDDB 16-20DADAB 21-25 DBCAB 26-30 CCDBC 31-35DDAAC 36-40 ADCBB

Ⅱ. Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.

1-5 CABDE 6-10CDEAB III. Interpretation Passage 1

1. Ezra Pound （1%）

2. This short poem is one of the most famous representative works of Imagist school. In the

poem, “the object” to be treated is the faces in that dim and dam context. The impression is brought out most vividly by the single, dominant image of flower petals on a wet, black bough, which serves as the most concise, direct, and definite metaphor for the “faces in the crowd.”（4%） Passage 2

1. Leaves of Grass. Whitman （2%）

2. equality of things and beings, divinity of everything, immanence of God, democracy, evolution of cosmos. （3%）

Passage 3

1. Theodore Dreiser. Sister Carrie （2%）

2.The world is cold and harsh to Sister Carrie. Alone and helpless, she moves along like a mechanism driven by desire and catches blindly at any opportunity for a better existence. Dreiser’s portrait of Hustwood is an authentic one of the impotent modern man unfit to survive. He must die.（3%）

Ⅳ. Define the following terms.

1.Symbolism：Symbolism is the writing technique of using symbols. It's a literary movement that arose in France in the last half of the 19th century and greatly influenced many writers, particularly poets of the 20th century. （2分）It enables poets to compress a very complex idea or set of ideas into one image or even one word. It's one of the most powerful devices that poets employ in creation. （2分）Many authors use symbolism in their works, for example, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Melville.（1分）

2. Romanticism：(a) American Romanticism is one of the most important periods in: the history of American literature. (b)It was a rebellion against the objectivity of rationalism. For romantics, the feelings, intuitions and emotions were more important than reason and common sense. （1分）They emphasized individualism, placing the individual against the group. They affirmed the inner life of the self, and cherished strong interest in the past, the wild, the remote, the mysterious and the strange. （1分）They stressed the element \"Americanness\" in their, works. （1分）(c) It started

with the publication of Washington Irving's The Sketch Book and ended with Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. (d) Being a period of the great flowering of American literature, it is also called \"the American Renaissance.\" （1分）(e) American Romanticists include such literary figures as Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman and some others.（1分）

3. The Autobiography： (a)The Autobiography could be seen as the representative work of Franklin.（1分） (b) It depicted the background of Benjamin Franklin, including his studying in his young age and his experiences of work. And his achievement in politics, science and economy were also mentioned in this book. （2分）(c) The whole book showed an atmosphere of his Puritan influence. The hard-will, self-education, self-retrospect, self-analysis and self-reliance were clearly seen from The Autobiography.(2分)

Ⅴ. Give brief answers to the following questions. 这是一道开放式试题，答案略。