Exercise for The Romantic Period (2)

The Romantic Period of American Literature (2)

I. Fill in the blanks.

1. __________ is famous for writing stories about the sea and the islands of the Southern Pacific. In his master

piece __________, he tells a story of a whaling voyage which is set a symbolic account of the conflict between man and his fate.

2. Edgar Allan Poe’s poem __________ is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in the English language.

3. Most of __________’s stories can be roughly divided into two kinds: tales of Gothic horror or grotesque like

The Cask of Amontillado and The Black Cat, ; while the other is stories of ratiocination such as __________.

4. Edgar Allan Poe’s poem __________ was published in 1845 as the title poem of a collection.

5. Ralph __________ Emerson was responsible for bringing Transcendentalism to New England.

6. Emerson’s truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emerson’s theories, was Henry __________

Thoreau.

7. In 1845, Thoreau began a two-year residence at __________ Pond.

8. A superb book __________ came out of Thoreau’s two-year experiment at Walden Pond.

9. From Thoreau’s Concord jail experience, came his famous essay __________.

10. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel __________.

11. __________ was a great American Transcendentalist and revolutionary Romanticist, whose first book Nature

is the fundamental document of his philosophy.

12. In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne brought out his masterpiece __________, the story of a triangular love affair in

colonial America.

13. Herman Melville’s novel __________ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a

seemingly supernatural white whale.

14. For the whole 19th century __________ was the only woman poet who enjoys high academic esteem today.

She was acclaimed as a poet of philosophical and tragic dimensions, a poet who was responsive to the challenging questions of man, nature and human consciousness.

15. In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was

entitled Nature by __________.

16. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay __________ has been regarded as “American’s Declaration of Intellectual

Independence”. It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.

17. Another renowned New England Transcendentalist was __________, a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and

his junior by some 14 years.

18. The way in which __________ wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself

to American puritan moralism.

19. Herman Melville’s world classic novel Moby Dick was dedicated to __________, a novelist.

20. Herman Melville is best known as the author of one book named __________, which is, critics have agreed,

one of the world’s greatest masterpieces.

21. To Helen was written by Edgar Allan Poe to express his admiration for __________.

22. Please write down the meter of Sonnet---- To Science: __________.

23. The major principles of Whitman’s technique are __________ and phonetic recurrence.

24. Walt Whitman broke free from the traditional iambic pentameter and wrote __________ (the lack of meter

and rhyme).

25. In theme Poe anticipated twentieth-century literature in his treatment of disintegration of the self in a world of

T. S. Eliot’s “__________”, a world where there is neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor peace, nor help from pain.

26. Poe’s fictional characters are mostly __________, who are either like Melville’s “isolators,” with no sense of

their identity, no name, no place nor parentage, dislocated, alienated from society, or a criminal who attempts to establish his sense of identity by the crime that he commits, or a bereaved lover.

27. Poe’s contribution to ___________ symbolist poetry was made not primarily through his poetry but his stories

and his criticism.

28. In his “__________”, Whitman revealed a world of equality without rank and hierarchy.

29. In America, modern American poets like __________ and __________ would not have been what they were

without Whitman.

30. Emily Dickinson’s mode of expression is characterized by clear-cut and delicately __________ imagery,

precise diction, and fragmentary and enigmatic metrical pattern.

31. Hawthorne showed a great interest in the problems of __________ and evil.

32. Melville and Hawthorne represented a position of __________ humanism in their time.

33. Like Hawthorne, Melville held a __________ view of the world.

34. Melville managed to achieve the effect of ambiguity through employing the technique of __________ in his

narratives.

35. The fifth edition of __________were added to by Whitman’s poems of the Civil War and of Lincoln such as

“O Captain! My Captain!”

II. Multiple choices.

1. Transcendentalists took their ideas from _____.

A. Neo-Platonism B. German Romanticism C. Oriental Mysterism D. All of the above

2. As a philosophical and literary movement, _____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.

A. modernism B. rationalism C. sentimentalism D. transcendentalism

3. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _____ and Thoreau.

A. Jefferson B. Emerson C. Freneau D. Oversoul

4. The appearance of the Scarlet Letter marked the maturity of Nathaniel Hawthorne as a novelist. Soon he

composed the other three important novels including _____, The Blithedale Romance, and The marble Faun.

A. The House of the Seven Gables B. The Prarie

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