美国文学选读期末考试

Ⅰ. Write the author of each item. 10’

1． Anne Bradstreet（The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America）

①Contemplation

②To My Dear and Loving Husband

2. Benjamin Franklin

①The Autobiography (early American Dream)

3. Philip Freneau (Poet of American Revolution; The Father of American Poetry)

①The Wild Honey Suckle

②The Indian Burying Ground

③To a Caty-Did

4. Washington Irving (The Father of American Short Story; first American writer of imaginative literature to gain international fame; regarded as Father of American literature.)

①The leg

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) I’m Nobody!

I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you Nobody too? Then there’s a pair of us!

Don’t tell, they’d banish us, you know!

How dreary to be Somebody! How public—like a Frog— To tell your name the livelong June To an admiring Bog!

我是无名之辈，你是谁？ 你也是无名之辈吗？ 那我们不就是一对了！ 不要张扬—你知道，他们会赶走我们的。 当个大人物多么的无趣， 就像只青蛙—在漫长的六月 公开地向赞扬它的沼泽 宣扬它的大名。 The author uses the first narration to have a secret talk with the readers. The theme of the talk is the fame burden. The author is happy that s

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题号 分数 得分 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 总分 Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the

names of the authors. (10%)

1. Octopus ( )

2. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets ( ) 3. Babbitt ( ) 4. White Fang ( )

5. “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” ( ) 6. My Antonia ( ) 7. “Birches” ( )

8. Poor Richard’s Almanac ( ) 9. Light i

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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Portugueses(荷兰人，瑞典人，德国人，法国人，西班牙人，意大利人及葡萄牙人等)。

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

1.Captain John Smith became the first American writer.

2.The puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people. 3.Poor Richard’s Almanac is an annual collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin.

4.Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”.

5.Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston.

6.Philip Freneau has been called the “Father of American Poetry”.

7.In Washington Irvi