0426_09063_美国文学期中测试题.docVIP

美国文学期中考试 I fill in the blanks with proper words. (1×20) 1. ___’s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinctly American literature to be written in English. 2. Hard work, ___, piety, and ____were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing, including the sermons, books and letters of such noted Puritan clergymen as John Cotton and Cotton Mather. 3. From 1732 to 1758, Franklin wrote and published his famous ___, an annual collection of proverbs. 4. On January 10, 1776, Paine’s famous pamphlet ____ appeared. It boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”, and brought the separatist agitation to a crisis. 5. Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: ____ and ____. 6. If Freneau can be considered one of the America’s first _____poets, William Cullen Bryant merits a claim to be one of America’s first ______poets. 7. The first American literature was neither American nor really literature. It was not literature as we know it ---in the form of poetry, essays, or______--but rather an interesting mixture of _______ and religious writings. 8. Edgar Allan Poe was also a master of the prose tale. A gifted, tormented man, Poe thought about the proper function of literature for more than any of his predecessors, with the result that he became the first great American literary ______. Besides the Romantic writing that he did so effectively, Poe also pioneered in the developing of the _____story. 9. Emerson’s ________________ is taken as the second declaration of American culture and thought in American history. ???10. Washington Irving is the father of _______________, who developed the ___________as a genre in American literature. 11. Under the strong influence of Calvinism, American Puritan accepted the doctrine of predestination, __________, total depravity, and limited atonement (or the salvation of __________through a special infusion of grace from God. ?12. Transcendental