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美国文学（本科）试题2 得分 ? I.? Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (15%, 1 point for each) 1.????? _____ was a founding figure of American poetry, whose innovation first of all lies in his use of the free verse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. 2.????? The publication of Nature established ______ as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. 3.????? Hard work, thrift, ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing. 4.????? _________ is considered to be the founder of psychological realism, who believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator. 5.????? Martin Eden is the novel into which ______ put most of himself. 6.????? The publication of _______ written by T. S. Eliot helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought. 7.????? “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _____. 8.????? With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ________ became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “a Lost Generation”. 9.????? “The Custom House” is an introductory note to the novel _______. 10.? Among the works attacking the “American Dream”, __________by Fitzgerald is a powerful piece. 11.? Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, but only ____ of which had appeared during her life time. 12.? ______, the tragic hero of Moby Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil. 13.? As a poet, ________ heralded American literary independence: his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects, e. g: The Wild Honey Suckle. 14.? The publication of Washington Irving’s _________, a collection of essays, sketches and tales, marks the beginning of American romanticism. 15.? “The Cop and the Anthem” is a short story written by ______. ?