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Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______________________.
A:modern time
B:young Americans
C:Jazz Age
D:Guilded Age
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John Milton is a great poet in the _____________________ PeoriD.
A:Renaissance
B:Neoclassical
C:Romantic
D:Realist
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The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is “___________________”.
A:A Tale of a Tub
B:The Battle of the Books
C:A Modest Proposal
D:Gulliver’s Travels
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Jane Austen was the daughter of a ____________________.
A:landlord
B:merchant
C:lawyer
D:rector
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In _____, Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln’s death.
A:“Cavalry Crossing a Ford”
B:“A Pact”
C:When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
D:There was a Child Went Forth”
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Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote ______ poems, of which only severn had appeared during her lifetime.
A:1145
B:1775
C:897
D:785
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As far as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s art is concerned, which of the following statement is true?
A:His The Scarlet Letter tells a love story.
B:His art is deeply influenced by Puritanism because he was a puritan himself.
C:Young Goodman Brown is a story about superstition.
D:Ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art.
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The first comedy Sheridan wrote is __________________.
A:The School for Scandal
B:The Critic
C:A Trip to Scarborough
D:The Rivals
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Faulkner once said that ________ is a story of “ lost innocence,’ which proves itself to be and intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.
A:The Sound and the Fury
B:Light in August
C:Go Down, Moses
D:Absalom, Absalom!
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Most of Hardy’s later works show his ___________ view of life.
A:optimistic
B:pessimistic
C:practical
D:ironical
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________ 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
D:The Emperor Jones
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Which of the following statements concerning Theodore Dreiser’s style is correct?
A:Dreiser’s Cowperwood trilogy includes The Financier, The Titan and The Genius
B:His novels have little detail descriptions of characters and events.
C:His novels are written in refined language.
D:His style is not polished but very serious.
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______ has long been well known as a poet who can hardly be classified with the old or the new.
A:Ezra Pound
B:Robert Lee Frost
C:T. S. Eliot
D:Emily Dickinson
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The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is _______
A:Arthur Miller
B:Tennessee William
C:George Bernard Shaw
D:Eugene O’Neil
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_______________________________ is Hemingway’s masterpiece, which is about the old fisherman Santiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin.
A:Farewell to Arms
B:For whom the Bell Tolls
C:The Sun Also Rises
D:The Old Man and The Sea
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Closely related to Emily Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning _______________.
A:Childhood
B:youth and happiness
C:loneliness
D:death and immortality
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“___________________” is the cooperative work of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge.
A:Tintern Abbey
B:The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C:Lyrical Ballads
D:Prelude
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The well-known soliloquy by Hamlet “To be , or not to be’ shows his
A:hatred for his uncle
B:love for life
C:resolution of revenge
D:inner- strife
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Keats was born in the family of a ______________.
A:landlord
B:apothecary
C:stable keeper
D:doctor
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In Frost’s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from _________________.
A:the simple country life
B:the urban life
C:the life on the sea
D:the adventures and trips
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Ellen Poe was both a poet and a _____________________.
A:dramatist
B:essayist
C:actor
D:fiction writer.
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In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the _______ devices in narration.
A:Romantic
B:Realistic
C:Gothic
D:Modernist
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______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.”
A:The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C:The Gilded Age
D:Life o奥鹏华中师范大学平时在线作业n the Mississippi
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In ______, Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret.
A:“The Custom-House”
B:“Young Goodman Brown”
C:“Rappaccini’s Daughter”
D:“The Birthmark"
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Bronte Sisters are all outstanding ________________.
A:essayists
B:playwrights
C:poets
D:novelists
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In his novels, William Faulkner exploits the modern steam-of –consciousness technique to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.
A:错误
B:正确
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Emersonian Transcendentalism inspired a whole generation of famous authors like Whitman, Dickinson and Mark Twain.
A:错误
B:正确
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Robert Lee Frost has long been well known as a poet who belongs to the new.
A:错误
B:正确
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The poem “Song of Myself” got this title from the first edition.
A:错误
B:正确
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The Romantic Age began in 1789 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work "The Lyrical Ballads".
A:错误
B:正确
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In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne intends to tell a love story and a story of sin.
A:错误
B:正确
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Emerson’s lasting reputation was established by his masterpiece Essays.
A:错误
B:正确
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Shakespeare'a prime creating period lies in his third period when his greatest tragedies were written.
A:错误
B:正确
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The defining formal characteristics of the modernistic works are discontinuity and fragmentation.
A:错误
B:正确
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In Robert Lee Frost’s poems, profound ideas are delivered under the disguise of the plain language and the simple form.
A:错误
B:正确
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As a Puritan, Hawthorne embraced the Puritanical doctrines and expresses them in his novels.
A:错误
B:正确
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Each of Emily Dickinson’s poems has a well-chosen title.
A:错误
B:正确
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Walt Whitman follows only one theme in his Leaves of Grass, that is, the burgeoning life in cities.
A:错误
B:正确
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Philosophically, the naturalists believe that the real and true is always completely hidden from the understanding of the individual or beyond his control.
A:错误
B:正确
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Hawthorne is a master of symbolism, which he took from the Puritan tradition and bequeathed to American literature in a revivified form.
A:错误
B:正确
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Walt Whitman is granted the honor of being “the American Goldsmith” for his literary craftsmanship.
A:错误
B:正确
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Fitzgerald shows an interest both in the upper-class society and in the lower-class society.
A:错误
B:正确
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According to Emerson, man is divine in nature and therefore forever perfectible.
A:错误
B:正确
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In 1805, Southey completed a long autobiographical poem entiled "The Prelude".
A:错误
B:正确
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English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of drama.
A:错误
B:正确
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Tess is arrested and hanged because she murders her seducer Clare.
A:错误
B:正确
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In style, her poems are characterized by their brevity, directness and plainness
A:错误
B:正确
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Byron's masterpiece is Tom Jones.
A:错误
B:正确
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Emily Dickinson’s poems are usually based on her own experiences, her sorrows and joys.
A:错误
B:正确
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Ellen Poe wrote many poems, so he has a very important position as poet; he wrote about 70 short stories and is regarded as a pioneer of the detective fiction and the horror fiction in the west.
A:错误
B:正确
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