美国文学试题 半期.doc

美国文学期中试题 (The Literature of Realism) 姓名 学号 I.Fill in the blanks. 1. Realism had originated in the country _ _France as a literary doctrine that called for reality and truth in the depiction of ordinary life. 2. The arbiter of nineteenth century literary realism in America was William Dean Howells 3. _Henry Jams_ probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters, writing in a rich and intricate style that supported his intense scrutiny of complex human experience. 4. _Mark Twain_ , breaking out of the narrow limits of local color fiction, described the breadth of American experience as no one had ever done before, or since. 5. _Darwinism_ had an evident influence on naturalism. It seemed to stress the animality of man, to suggest that he was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution. 6. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called _free verse__ , that is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. 7. In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass, _Walt Whitman_ gave America its first genuine epic poem. 8. There is no doubt that the solitary Emily Dickinson of _Amherst__, Massachusetts , is a poet of great power and beauty. 9. There was only one female prose writer in the nineteenth century. That was_Harriet Beecher Stowe 10. Harriet Beecher Stowe s masterpiece is Uncle Tom’s Cabin_ . 11. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name Mark Twain_. 12. One of Samuel Langhorne Clemens best books Life on the Mississippi is built around his experiences as a steamboat pilot. 13. The result of Mark Twain s European trip was a series of newspaper articles, later published as a book called Innocents Abroad_ . 14. Mark Twain__ was the first literary giant born west of the Mississippi. 15. Mark Twains work The Mysterious Stranger tells of the visits of an angel to the village of Eseldorf in Austria in 1590.