奥鹏远程教育东北师范大学英美文学在线作业一

奥鹏教育东北师范大学在线作业

英美文学19春在线作业1-0003

Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of venice：“NOt on thy Sole，but on thy soul，harsh Jew /thou mak‘st thy knife keen．”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?
A:Simile．
B:Metonymy．
C:Pun．
D:Synecdoche．
答案问询微信：424329

____ believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.
A:Charles Dickens
B:Thomas Hardy
C:Bernard Shaw
D:George Eliot
答案问询微信：424329

Best known for his novels about the adventure is
A:Dickens
B:Goldsmith
C:Defoe
D:Scott
答案问询微信：424329

Most of ______ works are set in the American South, with emphasis on the southern subjects
and consciousness .
A:Hemingway‘s
B:Fitzgerald‘s
C:Faulkner‘s
答案问询微信：424329

“Justice was done ; and the president of the Immortals had ended his sport” is a part of the quotation from
A:The Forsyte Saga
B:Jude the Obscure
C:The picture of Dorian Gray
D:Tess of D’ Urbervilles
答案问询微信：424329

Irving‘s Rip Van Winkle is famous for ______ .
A:Rip‘s escape into the mountain
B:Rip‘s seeking for happiness
C:Rip‘s 20–year sleep
答案问询微信：424329

“The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.” This
novel is most probably .
A:Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield
B:James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
C:Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Growd
D:Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
答案问询微信：424329

Most of Bernard Shaw’s plays are concerned with_______.
A:political problems
B:religious problems
C:moral problems
D:all the above
答案问询微信：424329

Chinese–American Literature can be defined as literature by and about ______ in America .
A:Chinese immigrants
B:Chinese students
C:Asian immigrants
答案问询微信：424329

Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness,
the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include
_______ , symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.
A:impressionism
B:expressionism
C:multiple points of view
D:first person point of view
答案问询微信：424329

Sir Gawain and Green Knight was created by
A:Chaucer
B:Langland
C:Bede
D:None of the above
答案问询微信：424329

_______ first collection of short stories is Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque .
A:Irving‘s
B:Cooper‘s
C:Poe‘s
答案问询微信：424329

_______ pen name was Mark Twain .
A:Samuel Langhorne Clemens‘
B:Henry James‘
C:Wil奥鹏教育东北师范大学在线作业liam Dean Howells‘
答案问询微信：424329

“…This grew: I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped altogether….”
(Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”)
The above lines imply that .
A:the Duchess was killed by her husband
B:the Duchess stopped smiling at her husband’s order
C:the Duchess died of laughing too much
D:the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested
答案问询微信：424329

Mark Twain‘s first novel _______ , written in collaboration with Charles D.
Warner and published in 1873,though not an artistic success, gives its name to
the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts to
satirize.
A:The Gilded Age
B:The Age of Innocence
C:The Roughing Time
D:The Jazz Age
答案问询微信：424329

“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
答案问询微信：424329

In 1704, ___________founded the periodicals “the Review”.
A:Swift
B:Blake
C:Milton
D:Defoe
答案问询微信：424329

Hawthorne generally concerns himself with such issues as in his fiction.
A:the evil in man’s heart
B:the material pursuit
C:the racial conflict
D:the social inequality
答案问询微信：424329

Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of ______________ and pathos.
A:humor
B:satire
C:passion
D:metaphor
答案问询微信：424329

"Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/Thou mak‘st thy knife keen."
In the above quotation taken form The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs
a（n）_______ .
A:oxymoron
B:pun
C:simile
D:synecdoche
答案问询微信：424329

As a Jewish writer , Salinger concerns himself only with Jewish subject .
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

The imaginary place of Yoknapatawpha functions as an allegory of the American South .
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

The main technique applied to the novel Ulysses by Joyce is symbolism.
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution.
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

Monks tried hard to trap Oliver Twist.
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

Shakespeare was born in April 1564 and died in 1616.
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

Morality play presents the conflict of good and evil with allegorical characters
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

The Jazz Age characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby .
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

Mr. Bennet’s favorite daughter is Jane.
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

Neo-classicism saw its decline in Dryden.
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

Wilder demanded his audience to accept the fact that they were watching actors on the stage .
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

Thoreau , Whitman and Hawthorne are considered the three great Transcendental figures in the 19th century .
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

Fitzgerald shows an interest both in upper–class society & lower–class society .
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

The Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

A ballad is written in 4-line stanza with the first and third lines rhymes.
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

Mark Twain made dialect an accepted form of art .
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

According to Emerson , man is divine in nature .
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

In her works , Amy Tan wrote beautifully about the contrast between Chinese and American cultures .
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

Blake is often regarded as a symbolist and mystic.
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329

The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution .
A:错误
B:正确
答案问询微信：424329