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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.Tran

2、scendentalism4.StreamofConsciousness5.Transcendentalism6.LostGenerationPartVIForeachofthequotations,pleasegivethenameoftheauthorandthetitleoftheliteraryworkfromwhichitistaken.(5*2=10points)PartVIIGivebriefanswerstothefollowingquestions.(10points)FogInaStationofth

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

4、tandshort-storywriterweretoconveyhisconcernsinaprosestylebuiltfromwhathasleftaftereliminatingallthewordsone“couldnotstandtohear”.“Ialwaystrytowriteontheprincipleofice-berg,”hetoldaninterviewer,“thereisseven-eighthsofitunderwaterforeverypartthatshows.”Hebelievesth

5、atagoodwriterdoesnotneedtorevealeverydetailofacharacteroraction;theone-eighththatispresentwillsuggestallothermeaningfuldimensionsofthestory.Accordingtohim,goodliterarywritingshouldbeabletomakereadersfeeltheemotionofthecharactersdirectlyandthebestwaytoproducetheef

6、fectistosetdownexactlyeveryparticularkindoffeelingwithoutanyauthorialcomments,withabareminimumofadjectivesandadverbs.Hislanguageissimple,symbolicandsuggestive,implyingmorethanwhatisactuallysaid.2.WilliamFaulknerisconsideredagreatavant-gardeexperimenterbecausehesu

7、ccessfullyadvancedsomemodernliterarytechniques.1)Heusedthedeviceofstreamofconsciousness.Actionandplotarelessimportantthanthereactionsandinnermusingsofthenarrator.Timesequencesareoftendislocated.Inthisway,hewentdeepintothemindandmemoryofhischaracters.2)Heusedmulti

8、plepointsofviewandacircularforminsteadofalinearstructurewhichmakesthereaderseethedifficultyofarrivingatatruejudgment.3)Hestressedauthorialtranscendence.4)Heuse