美國文學史期末復習資料[最新-資料下載頁

　　

【正文】 Portrait of a Lady b. MobyDick c. Death of a Salesman d. A Farewell to Arms Sound and the Fury f. The Grapes of Wrath g. The Naked and the Dead h. The Catcher in the Rye i. Native Son j. Long Day’s Journey into Night , Absalom l. The Old Man and the Sea A. Match Works with Their Authors B. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear. V. Essay Questions (30%。 choose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short essay of at least 200 words. Note: [1]Your essay should have at least 2 paragraphs。 you are not simply to make a list of facts.[2] You may give a title to your essay, but you are required to indicate which of the 3 topics it belongs to. [3]You are not to write on a topic of your own.1. To the best of your knowledge, analyze and make ments on Emerson’s Nature2. Comment on any American poet you like. 3. Analyze and/or ment on any one of the American novels or plays you have read. V. Essay Questions (30%。 choose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short essay of at least 200 words. Note: [1]Your essay should have at least 2 paragraphs。 you are not simply to make a list of facts.[2] You may give a title to your essay, but you are required to indicate which of the 3 topics it belongs to. [3]You are not to write on a topic of your own.)4. Make ments on an American novel we have discussed in this course.5. Comment on an American poet.6. Describe how your knowledge of American literature is improved after taking this course.. IV. Please answer the following questions briefly. (2 x 10’ = 20’)1. Why do people think Franklin is the embodiment of American dream?2. What is “Lost Generation”? V. Discussion. (1 x 20’ = 20’)State your own interpretations of Hemingway’s iceberg theory of writing?IV. Please answer the following questions briefly. (2 x 10’ = 20’)3. What is Hawthorne’s style? Explain the style with examples.4. At the end of the 19th century, there were three fighters for Realism. Who are they? What are their differences?________ III. Please explain the following terms. (5 x 6’ = 30’)1. Puritanism2. Free verse3. International novel: 4．Romanticism5. Naturalism6. American Realism NaturalismModernismImagism1. Puritanism: Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans.2. Free verse: It is poetry that has an irregular rhythm and line length and that attempts to avoid any predetermined verse structure。 instead, it uses the cadences of natural speech. 3. International novel: IN brings together persons of various nationalities who represent certain characteristics of their own countries.4. Naturalism: It views human beings as animals in the natural world responding to environmental forces and internal stresses and drives, over none of which they have control and none of which they fully understand. The literary naturalists have a major difference from the realists. They look at a different spot to find real life.III. Please explain the following terms. (5 x 6’ = 30’)1. Puritanism2. international novel3. the lost generation4. free verse transcendentalismHemingway heroes1. Puritanism: Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans.2. international novel: IN brings together persons of various nationalities who represent certain characteristics of their own countries.3. the lost generation: reveals the huge destruction of the wars to the young generation. It describes the Americans who remained in Paris as a colony of “expatriates”. They were lost in disillusionment.4. free verse: It is poetry that has an irregular rhythm and line length and that attempts to avoid any predetermined verse structure。 instead, it uses the cadences of natural speech.5. transcendentalism: It stressed the power of intuition, believing that people could learn things both from the outside world by means of the five senses and from the inner world by intuition. It took nature as symbolic of spirit or God. All things in nature were symbols of the spiritual, of God’s presence. It emphasized the significance of the individual and believed that the individual was the most important element in society and that the ideal kind of individual was selfreliant and unselfish. Transcendentalists envisioned religion as an emotional munication between an individual soul and the universal “Oversoul”.