美国文学(本科)试题6.doc

美国文学（本科）试题6 ? I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases: (20%, 1 point for each) 1.????? In 1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsis” introduced the best poet, ______, to appear in America up to that time. 2.????? James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and ______. 3.????? Ralph Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of ______ movement, yet he never applied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas. 4.????? Herman Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale. 5.????? In the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote ______ which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic. 6.????? In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at ______ Pond. 7.????? After his death, ______ became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey. 8.????? The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century through the outburst of the ______. 9.????? The arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America was ______. 10.? The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ______, which is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. 11.? ______ is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator. 12.? ______ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself. 13.? O. Henry’s ______ is a very moving story of a young couple who sell their best possessions in order to get money for a Christmas present for each other. 14.? ______ was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “Imagist” movement. 15.? In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel ______. It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him. 16.?