英美文学(美国文学)quiz英美文学(美国文学)quiz4.doc

Quiz for American Literature I. Blank-filling (23%) 1. Nothing had more important and long-lasting effect on America than the _two _great world war_____, especially, _WWI______ which means violence, devastation, blood and death. 2. After a decade of postwar economic booming, with the Stock Market Crash in _1929_____, usually referred to as ___The Great Depression________, the Americans experienced a period of poverty, bleakness and social consciousness. 3. American Imagism in poetry started in __Chicago_____ in _1912_______ when a new magazine was launched under the title of “Poetry: A Magazine of Verse” by Harriet Monroe. 4. The most outstanding figures of the Imagist Movement were Ezra _Loomis Pound__________, Amy __Lowell____________, Hilda _Doolitlle___________. 5. The three principles followed by Imagists are direct treatment______, _economy of expression_____ and _rhythm__________. 6. Pound’s masterwork __Cantos______ is considered the best long poem in modern literature. 7. The publication of The Waste Land, written by __T.S.Eliot_______, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought. 8. __E.R.Robinson___________ was a transitional poet between the 19th c and the 20th c., generally regarded as America’s greatest poet in the 1920s. 9. _Wallace Stevens_________, a traditional and one of the most accomplished poets of his time, was sharply opposed to Eliot’s earlier pessimism and later religious attitude. 10. __Robert Lee Frost___________’s first book A Boy’s Will brought him to the attention of influential critics, such as Ezra Pound, who praised him as an authentic poet. 11. __Sylvia Plath_____________, a woman poet, is often studied as a confessional poet. 12. Modern poetry in America after the WWII has developed many poetic schools. There is no __unified____ concept of poetry. Diver city______ is its major feature. _Authority______ has been dispersed, permitting a __plurality_____ of theories and styles. 13.