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美国文学习题集（含答案）1 2012-10-15 19:10 ? 点击次数：14 1?? Basic Literary Knowledge ? Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks 1. iambic foot, stressed2. repetition3. symbol 4. couplet, heroic couplet5. trochaic 1. The _____is the most commonly used foot in English poetry, in which an unstressed syllable comes first, followed by a ______syllable. 2. Rhyme is the _____of sounds in two or more words or phrases that usually appear close to each other in a poem. For example: we/thee, man/can, and gold/hold. 3. A _____is a sign that suggests more than its literal meaning. 4. The two-line stanza form is called the _____, the best-known being the _____which is written in iambic pentameter with an end rhyme. 5. The _____foot, which is the reverse of the iambic foot, also consists of one stressed and one unstressed syllables, but with the stressed one coming first. 6. unstressed 7. Washington Irving 8. Edgar Allan Poe9. Bret Hart 6. An anapestic foot is made up of two _____and one stressed syllables, with the two unstressed in front. 7. American achievements in the short story have demanded international respect and admiration for more from ______in the early 19th century. 8. ______is generally thought of as the true beginner of the short stories because he was the first writer who formulated a poetics of the short stories. 9. There were two other American writers who had made significant contributions to the literary form of short story: ______, with his stories of early life in California, started a vogue of local color stories and made the short story seem completely at home in the US, and Henry James, brought to the form a careful writing that made his stories models. 10. Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porte 10. In the 20th century, there have been many who have won fame abroad as well as in the US for their stories: ______, _______, _______, ________, and dozens of others. 11. Washington Irving, Flannery O’Conner12. the novel and the short story13. shor