美国文学选读课后答案

Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales

1. How is the setting of the tales described? With such a setting, could you predict the general tone of the tales?

Early spring. General tone: happy, easy, lively, humorous. 2. Character of the Knight?

The knight displays many traits which make him seem almost too good to be true, and a true gentleman that rarely exists in reality. The knight holds four main admirable traits, making him the most liked traveler in \Canterbury Tales,\and also amplying the doubt of his realism. From the

Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales

1. How is the setting of the tales described? With such a setting, could you predict the general tone of the tales?

Early spring. General tone: happy, easy, lively, humorous. 2. Character of the Knight?

The knight displays many traits which make him seem almost too good to be true, and a true gentleman that rarely exists in reality. The knight holds four main admirable traits, making him the most liked traveler in \Canterbury Tales,\and also amplying the doubt of his realism. From the

Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales

1. How is the setting of the tales described? With such a setting, could you predict the general tone of the tales?

Early spring. General tone: happy, easy, lively, humorous. 2. Character of the Knight?

The knight displays many traits which make him seem almost too good to be true, and a true gentleman that rarely exists in reality. The knight holds four main admirable traits, making him the most liked traveler in \Canterbury Tales,\and also amplying the doubt of his realism. From the

美国文学史及作品选读 模拟试题一

I. Multiple Choice (1’×15=15’)

1. C______was the first colony in American history.

A. Massachusetts B. New Jersey C. Virginia D.Georgia

2. _B_____ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One

of his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on this young nation.”

A. John Smith B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson D.Thomas Paine 3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____. A. common sense B. imagination C. intuiti

History And Anthology of American Literature (VolumeⅠⅡ)

美国文学史及选读1、2

PartⅠThe Literature of Colonial America殖民主义时期的文学(at the beginning of 17th century) Part Ⅱ The Literature of Reason And Revolution理性和革命时期文学(by the mid-18th century)

1． Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence 独立宣言 (1776年 18世纪中后期)（仔细阅读知道意思）

Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography Thomas Paine: The American Crisis*

一、 Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林1706-1790

Symbol of America in the Age of Enlightenment 殖民地时期作家。独立战争前惟一的杰出的美国作家in the colonial period, the only g

History And Anthology of American Literature (VolumeⅠⅡ)

美国文学史及选读1、2

PartⅠThe Literature of Colonial America殖民主义时期的文学(at the beginning of 17th century) Part Ⅱ The Literature of Reason And Revolution理性和革命时期文学(by the mid-18th century)

1． Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence 独立宣言 (1776年 18世纪中后期)（仔细阅读知道意思）

Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography Thomas Paine: The American Crisis*

一、 Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林1706-1790

Symbol of America in the Age of Enlightenment 殖民地时期作家。独立战争前惟一的杰出的美国作家in the colonial period, the only g

美国文学史及作品选读 模拟试题一

I. Multiple Choice (1’×15=15’)

1. C______was the first colony in American history.

A. Massachusetts B. New Jersey C. Virginia D.Georgia

2. _B_____ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One

of his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on this young nation.”

A. John Smith B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson D.Thomas Paine 3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____. A. common sense B. imagination C. intuiti

美国文学选读------作家作品

Benjamin Franklin

Poor Richard’s Almanac The Autobiography

Edgar Allan Poe

Tamerlane and Other Poems Poems

The Raven and Other Poems

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Tales

“The Fall of the House of Usher” “The Masque of the Red Death”

“Ligeia”, “The Black Cat”, “The Cask of Amontillado”

“Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Purloined Letter”, “The Gold Bug” “The Philosophy of Composition”, “The Poetic Principle” Annabel Lee The Raven

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature

The American Scholar

The Di

History And Anthology of American Literature(VolumeⅠ)

美国文学史及选读1

PartⅠThe Literature of Colonial America殖民主义时期的文学 1. 17世纪早期English and European explorers开始登陆美洲。在他们之前100多年Caribbean Islands, Mexico andother Parts of South America已被the Spanish占领。

2. 17th早期English settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts(弗吉尼亚和马萨诸塞)开始了美国历史 3.

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4. 美国早期文学主要为the narratives and journals of these settlements采用in dia

美国文学选读及名篇赏析

Selected Readings and Appreciation in American Literature Period of Romanticism 浪漫主义时期

第一二个是实验派诗人

Walt Whitman 沃尔特·惠特曼(the pioneer of American poem revolutionary):美国诗歌革命的先驱者The father of free verse自由诗体之父 Leaves of Grass, Song of myself Emily Dickinson :艾米莉·迪金森 I’m Nobody

Nathaniel Hawthorne: 纳撒尼尔·霍桑 The Scarlet Letter

Edgar Allan Poe 埃德加·爱伦·坡(Father of detective story, The first American literary theorist): (侦探小说之父,美国第一位文学理论家):哥特小说的继承者与发展者 The Fall of The House of Usher; The Purloin