chapter 5 american literature

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1、Chapter5AmericanLiteratureExercisesI.ExplainthefollowinginEnglish:1.TheLetherstockingTales2.Transcendentalists3.Walden4.TheScarletLetter5.MobyDick6.LeavesofGrass7.MarkTwain8.thenaturalists9.TheWasteLand10.the"LostGeneration"11.theHarlemRenaissance12.the"BeatGeneration"II.Fillintheblanks:1

2、.andarethetwomajorwritersofthepost-Revolutionaryperiod.2."TheMasqueoftheRedDeath"and"TheFalloftheHouseofUsher"werestorieswrittenby3.In1852,aNewEnglandwomannamedHarrietBeecherStowewroteanoveltitled,whichintensifiedthepoliticaldebateonslavery.4MarkTwain'sisconsideredthegreatestnovelinAmeric

3、anliterature.5.HenryJames'majorworksincludeand.HisworksoftendescribedAmericanslivingin6.UptonSinclair'snovelexposedthehorriblelivesofmeat-packingfactoryworkers.7.EzraPound'spoetryisfamousfor,theuseofstrong,concreteimages.8.T.S.Eliot'slongpoemrevealedapessimisticviewofpost-WorldWarIsociety

4、.Hedominatedso-calledmovementinpoetry.9.AfterWorldWarI,manynovelistsproducedliteraryworksofdisillusionment.Someofthemlivedabroadandwereknownasthe""10.F.ScottFitzgerald'snovelwasaboutyouth'sgoldendreamturningtodisappointment.11.NamethreenovelswrittenbyErnestHemingway:and12.TheSoundandtheFu

5、rywaswrittenby,whoseprosestylewasexperimental.13.NametwoplayswrittenbyEugeneO'Neill:and14JohnSteinbeck'sTheGrapesofWrathwasaportraitofapoorfamilyduringtheperiodof15.RichardWrightwrotethenovel,andRalphEllisonwrotethenovel.Bothwerewriters.16.Therepresentativeworkofthe"BeatGeneration"wasAlan

6、Ginsberg'spoem17.wontheNobelPrizeforLiteraturein1993,thefirstAfro-Americanwritertoreceivethishonor.TwoofherbestnovelsareandIII.Choosethecorrectanswertoeachofthefollowingquestions:l.Whichofthefollowingwasawriterofthepost-Revolutionaryperiod?A.EdgarAllanPoeB.NattyBumppoC.WashingtonIrvingD.R

7、ipVanWinkle2.WhichofthefollowingisconsideredanAmericanmasterpiece?A.TheLastoftheMohicansB.TheLegendoftheSleepyHollowC."TheMasqueoftheRedDeath"D.MobyDick3.WhichofthefollowingwaswrittenbyThoreau?A.NatureB.WaldenC.TheScarletLetterD.TheFalloftheHouseofUsher4.Whitman'spo