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American Literature

Chapter 1 The Romantic Period

I. Choose the right answer:

1. Of all the following issues, _____is definitely NOT the focus of the Romantic writers in the American literary history. 2. Henry David Thoreau’s work, ________, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement.

3. "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" is a famous quote from______’s writings. 4. ’Leaves of Grass’ commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of________, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War. 5. According to Whitman, the genuine participation of a poet in a common cultural effort was to behave as a supreme_________. 6. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as ___________. 7. In the following works, which sign the beginning of the American literature? 8. _____is the author of the work ’The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’. D. William Butler Yeats

9. Washington Irving’s ’Rip Van Winkle’ is famous for_________.

A. Rip’s escape into a mysterious B. The story’s German legendary source material

C. Rip’s seekiRip’s 20-years sleep

10. Which of the following statement is not true about Washington Irving?

A. Washington Irving is regarded as Father of the American short stories.

B. Irving’s relationship with the Old World in terms of his literary imagination can hardly be ignored considering his success both abroad and at home.

D. Washington Irving has always been regarded as a writer who "perfected the best classic style that American literature ever produced."

11. The Publication of ______established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. 12. The phrase "a transparent eye-ball’ compares philosophical mentation of Emerson’s. It appears in_________. 13. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmeasas :Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence". 1 美国文学 单选题 诗歌分析题

14. _____is the most ambivalent (有争议的) writers in the American literary history.