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.Modern

2、ism3.Transcendentalism4.StreamofConsciousness5.Transcendentalism6.LostGenerationPartVIForeachofthequotations,pleasegivethenameoftheauthorandthetitleoftheliteraryworkfromwhichitistaken.(5*2=10points)PartVIIGivebriefanswerstothefollowingquestions.(10points

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

4、aimandachievementasanovelistandshort-storywriterweretoconveyhisconcernsinaprosestylebuiltfromwhathasleftaftereliminatingallthewordsone“couldnotstandtohear”.“Ialwaystrytowriteontheprincipleofice-berg,”hetoldaninterviewer,“thereisseven-eighthsofitunderwate

5、rforeverypartthatshows.”Hebelievesthatagoodwriterdoesnotneedtorevealeverydetailofacharacteroraction;theone-eighththatispresentwillsuggestallothermeaningfuldimensionsofthestory.Accordingtohim,goodliterarywritingshouldbeabletomakereadersfeeltheemotionofthe

6、charactersdirectlyandthebestwaytoproducetheeffectistosetdownexactlyeveryparticularkindoffeelingwithoutanyauthorialcomments,withabareminimumofadjectivesandadverbs.Hislanguageissimple,symbolicandsuggestive,implyingmorethanwhatisactuallysaid.2.WilliamFaulkn

7、erisconsideredagreatavant-gardeexperimenterbecausehesuccessfullyadvancedsomemodernliterarytechniques.1)Heusedthedeviceofstreamofconsciousness.Actionandplotarelessimportantthanthereactionsandinnermusingsofthenarrator.Timesequencesareoftendislocated.Inthis

8、way,hewentdeepintothemindandmemoryofhischaracters.2)Heusedmultiplepointsofviewandacircularforminsteadofalinearstructurewhichmakesthereaderseethedifficultyofarrivingatatruejudgment.3)Hestressedauthorialtranscendence.4)Heuse