美国文学吴伟仁版第三 模拟练习和答案.docVIP

第三章 模拟练习与答案 Blank Filling 1. In the early nineteenth century, Washington Irving wrote .which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic. 2. The Romantic period in the American literary history covers the time between the end of the century to the outbreak of the . It started with the publication of Irvings and ended with Whitmans . This period is also called. 3. Irvings The Sketch Book is a collection of essays, sketches and tales, of which the most famous and frequently anthologized are and . 4. The Transcendental Club often met at s Concord home. 5. Emersonian Transcendentalism is actually a philosophical school which absorbed some ideological concerns of American and Euro pean Romanticism. 6. was regarded as Father of the American short stories. 7. Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, and the other is . 8. Coopers novel was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War. 9. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is. , who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye. 10. In , Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincolns death. 11. The great work not only demonstrates Emersonian ideas of self-reliance but also develops and tests Thoreaus own transcendental philosophy. 12. In , Whitmans own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growing America. 13. Imbued with an inquiring imagination, an intensely meditative mind, and unceasing interest in the ntenor of the heart of mans being is used to describe . 14. by Melville is a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorized hostage. 15. A superb book came out of Thoreaus two-year experiment at Walden Pond.