武汉理工大学《美国文学简史》复习题库.pdf

考试复习重点资料 （最新版） 资料见第二页 封 面 第1页 复习题一 Part One ： Fill in the blanks. 1.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. 2.Among the colonists could be found poets and essayists ， but no ______. 3.Franklin’s writings range from informal sermons on thrift to urban essays. He wrote ______ as well as clearly. 4.Franklin’s ______ is many things ，and in fact，it is a how-to-do-it book ，a book on the art of ______. 5.The practical world of Benjamin Franklin stands in sharp contrast to the ______world created by Washington Irving. 6.“Rip Van Winkle” is a humorous tale of a ______villager in the mountain of upstate New York. 7.Through “Rip Van Winkle” and several other stories Irving helped to create what might be called an American ______. 8.James Fenimore Cooper contributed two of the great stock figures of American mythology： the daring ______and the bold Indian. The figures in his novels helped create that part of American mythology most popular today ： the story of the ______ and the winning of American West. 9.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. 10.The ______instead of the group， the wild instead of the tame ， the _____instead of the regular are features stressed by Romantic writers. 11.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 ______. 12.Besides the R