英美文学19春在线作业2-0003

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“For I have known them all already, known them all--／Have known the evenings，mornings，afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons．”The abovelines are taken from____.
A:Wordsworth‘s“The Solitary Reaper”
B:Eliot‘s“The Love Song of J．Alfred Prufrock，”
C:Coleridge‘s“Kubla Khan”
D:Yeats‘s“The Lake Isle of lnnisfree”

Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England ?
A:John Bunyan
B:Daniel Defoe
C:Alexander Pope
D:Jonathan Swift

______ saw a new upsurge of Black American Literature in what has come to be known as
    the Harlem Renaissance .
A:1900s
B:1910s
C:1920s

“You and the girls may go ,or you may send them by themselves , which perhaps will be still better , for as you are as handsome as any of them , Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party.” What figure of speech is used in the underlined part ?
A:Paradox
B:Simile
C:Irony
D:Antithesis

In his poem“Tyger,Tyger，”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful
    Symmetry”of the big cat．The phrase“fearful Symmetry”Suggests____.
A:the tiger‘s two eyes Which are dazzlingly bright and Symmetrically set
B:the poet‘s fear of the predator
C:the analogy of the hammer and the anvil
D:the harmony of the two opposte aspects of God’s creation

______ is a play that concerns the problem of modern man‘s identity .
A:The Hairy Ape
B:Long Day‘s Journey into Night
C:The Iceman Cometh

Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for
and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
A:immortality
B:political
C:money
D:knowledge

In Samuel Taylor Coleridge′s “Kubla Khan,” “A sunny pleasure dome with caves
of ice” .
A:refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once lived
B:vividly describes a building of poor quality
C:is the gift given to a beautiful girl called Abyssinian
D:symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious

The following are all Steinbeck‘s works except ______ .
A:Winesburg , Ohio
B:Of Mice and Men
C:Grapes of Wrath

The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around .
A:1820
B:1850
C:1880
D:1920

The Pilgrim‘s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the
search for _______ .
A:material wealth
B:spiritual salvation
C:universal truth
D:self-fulfillment

“My last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ______________.
A:sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language
B:excellent choice of words
C:mastering of the metrical devices
D:use of the dramatic monologue

In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the
allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?
A:"Sailing to Byzantium"
B:" Leda and the Swan"
C:"The Lake Isle if Innisfree".
D:" Sown by the Sally Garden"

The lake poets include all the following members except the author of the following work
A:The Prelude
B:Don Juan
C:The Ancient Mariner
D:Joan of Arc

Walt Whitman, whose ______________ established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.
A:Leaves of Grass
B:Go Down, Moses
C:The Marble Faun
D:As I Lay Dying

“The history of the world is the biography of the great men” can sum up the book
A:Heroes and Hero-worship
B:The French Revolution
C:A Modern Comedy
D:Life of Schiller

William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except .
A:normal contemporary speech patterns
B:humble and rustic life as subject matter
C:elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
D:intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience

Of the following writers , who wrote the critical essay On Poetry and Poets ?
A:Pound
B:Eliot
C:Frost

Dreiser‘s language style includes the following aspects except ______ .
A:being polished and graceful
B:lack of concision
C:massive detailed description

The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark,
criminal underworld life" may well sum up the main theme if Dickens‘s _______ .
A:David Copperfield
B:Bleak House
C:Great Expectations
D:Oliver Twist

Auld Lang Syne was composed by Burns.
A:错误
B:正确

Native Son was considered the best book after WWⅡ in 1965 .
A:错误
B:正确

Amy Tan‘s first book published in 1976 called The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critic‘s Circle Award .
A:错误
B:正确

The short story “The Rocking Horse Winner” was written by Lawrence.
A:错误
B:正确

Wordsworth’s best poems are description of mountains, rivers, flowers, birds .
A:错误
B:正确

Williams‘ sister Rose became the model for Laura in The Glass Menagerie .
A:错误
B:正确

On one hand Byron is a violent reformer and on the other hand he is a wanderer.
A:错误
B:正确

Stephen Crane was also a poet who influenced Imagist poetry .
A:错误
B:正确

The main technique applied to the novel Ulysses by Joyce is symbolism.
A:错误
B:正确

Shakespeare was born in April 1564 and died in 1616.
A:错误
B:正确

Romanticism rose and grew under the impetus of the French Revolution.
A:错误
B:正确

Black Humor is defined as modern humor caused by anger .
A:错误
B:正确

As a Jewish writer , Salinger concerns himself only with Jewish subject .
A:错误
B:正确

Morality play presents the conflict of good and evil with allegorical characters
A:错误
B:正确

It was Maud Gonne who helped Yeats establish Abbey Theatre.
A:错误
B:正确

Steinbeck is a sociological writer and his Babbitt presents a documentary picture of the narrow and limited middle class mind .
A:错误
B:正确

Pope established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms.
A:错误
B:正确

In Shakespeare’s comedies the heroes and heroines attained their victory without much struggle.
A:错误
B:正确

Most of English ballads were collected in the 18th century.
A:错误
B:正确

Monks tried hard to trap Oliver Twist.
A:错误
B:正确