美国文学史及作品选读教学大纲-美国文学史及作品选读课程

美国文学史及作品选读教学大纲-美国文学史及作品选读课程内容摘要：

产生的社会和文化背景 2． 美国现实主义时期的文学 特征 3．现实主义时期作家及作品 考核目标： 1． 识记：现实主义 , 马克•吐温及其作品 2．理解：美国现实主义时期的文学特征，美国乡土文学特点 3． 运用 ： 马克•吐温的主要代表作及其主题思想和艺术风格 【样题】 I. Make the best choice. （每小题 分，共 30 分 ) is the attitude of a party which stresses the following except_______ A. restoration of the church B. predestination and original sin C .hardworking and thrift D. loose morality first American literature was the work ________ A. mainly of immigrants from England. B. of great literary merits C. in the form of poetry, essays or fiction D. about the native subjects of America. of the following is NOT true of colonial American literature? A. full of religious sermons B. showing a distrust of the mystical C. mainly in the form of diary, autobiography and travel account D. characterized with logical structure and simplicity of diction. 4. With an unshakable belief in the power of reason, the 18th century Enlighteners regarded __________ as the principal means of the development of society A. education and reason B. hard working C. selfinspection D. free thinking Franklin was a universal genius whose masterpiece_______ became a classic of its kind. A. Poor Richard’s Almanac B. Autobiography C. Rip Van Winkle D. The Sketch Book following words best describe Rip Van Winkle except_______ A. kind B. gentle C. hardworking D. lazy first American writer of imaginative literature and short stories was ________ A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Benjamin Franklin C. James Fenimore Cooper D. Washington Irving 8. Natty Bumppo’s friendship with Chingachgook is symbolic of ________. A. the understandings between two different peoples. B. the relationship between the civilized and the savages C. the conflict between the whites and the American Indians D. the development of the frontiers 9. Romanticism can best be described by which of the following words? A. realism B. logic C. imagination D. reason 10. James Fenimore Cooper was a Romanticist because he ________ A. glorified nature B. loved people C. loved society D. wrote poetry 11. James Fenimore Cooper was the first American writer to write about_________ A. the American South B. the American frontiers life C. the American legends D. the American culture was known as “the poet of American Revolution”. A. Franklin B. Irving C. Freneau D. Poe 13. Phillip Freneau’s poem The Wild Honey Suckle is about________ A. the death of a flower B. the beauty of nature C. the transience of life D. the bless of God 14. “And planted here the guardian shade and sent soft waters murmuring by” The forms of rhyming in these two lines are ______________ A. assonance and consonance B. alliteration and consonance C. assona。