考试题型survey_of_american_literature_review

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1、PartIMultiplechoice.(20*1=20points)PartIIFillintheblanks.(20*1=20points)PartIIITrueorfalse.(10*1=10points)PartIVMatchtheliteraryworkswiththeircorrespondingauthors.(10*1=10points)PartVDefinethefollowingliteraryterms.(3*5=15points)1.Americanrealism2.Modernism3.Transcen

2、dentalism4.StreamofConsciousness5.Transcendentalism6.LostGenerationPartVIForeachofthequotations,pleasegivethenameoftheauthorandthetitleoftheliteraryworkfromwhichitistaken.(5*2=10points)PartVIIGivebriefanswerstothefollowingquestions.(10points)FogInaStationoftheMetroPa

3、rtVIIIQuestionandanswer.(5*1=5points)Directions:Chooseonetopictoanswerfromthetwo.1.DiscussErnestHemingway’s“icebergprinciple”ofwriting.2.WhyisWilliamFaulknerconsideredbycriticsagreatavant-gardeexperimenter?1.Hemingway’sstyle:hisaimandachievementasanovelistandshort-st

4、orywriterweretoconveyhisconcernsinaprosestylebuiltfromwhathasleftaftereliminatingallthewordsone“couldnotstandtohear”.“Ialwaystrytowriteontheprincipleofice-berg,”hetoldaninterviewer,“thereisseven-eighthsofitunderwaterforeverypartthatshows.”Hebelievesthatagoodwriterdoe

5、snotneedtorevealeverydetailofacharacteroraction;theone-eighththatispresentwillsuggestallothermeaningfuldimensionsofthestory.Accordingtohim,goodliterarywritingshouldbeabletomakereadersfeeltheemotionofthecharactersdirectlyandthebestwaytoproducetheeffectistosetdownexact

6、lyeveryparticularkindoffeelingwithoutanyauthorialcomments,withabareminimumofadjectivesandadverbs.Hislanguageissimple,symbolicandsuggestive,implyingmorethanwhatisactuallysaid.2.WilliamFaulknerisconsideredagreatavant-gardeexperimenterbecausehesuccessfullyadvancedsomemo

7、dernliterarytechniques.1)Heusedthedeviceofstreamofconsciousness.Actionandplotarelessimportantthanthereactionsandinnermusingsofthenarrator.Timesequencesareoftendislocated.Inthisway,hewentdeepintothemindandmemoryofhischaracters.2)Heusedmultiplepointsofviewandacircularf

8、orminsteadofalinearstructurewhichmakesthereaderseethedifficultyofarrivingatatruejudgment.3)Hestressedauthorialtranscendence.4)Heuse