奥鹏教育华中师范大学《英美文学》在线作业

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Shakespeare is one of the greatest playwrights and _________________________ the world has ever known.
A:poets
B:novelists
C:essayists
D:critics
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_______ is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of “The lost Generation.”
A:The Sun Also Rises
B:A Farewell to Arms
C:In Our Time
D:For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Eugene O’Neill is regarded as the founder of American _____________________.
A:poetry
B:drama
C:fiction
D:literature
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As a novelist, Emily Bronte was also good at writing________________.
A:essays
B:plays
C:poems
D:stories
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_______ is described by Mark Twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience.”
A:Tom Sawyer
B:Huckleberry Finn
C:Jim
D:Tony
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Paradise lost is a great epic consisting _____________ books.
A:8
B:10
C:12
D:14
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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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Francis Bacon is not only a great ____________, but also the founder of modern science.
A:poet
B:essayist
C:dramatist
D:novelist
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The only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize was ___________.
A:Bernard Shaw
B:Eugene O’Neil
C:Richard Brinsley Sheridan
D:William Shakespeare
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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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In Walt Whitman’s “There was a Child Went Forth,” the child refers to ________.
A:the poet himself as a child
B:any American child
C:the young America
D:one of the poet’s neighbor
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In 1689 Jonathan Swift became the __________________of Sir William.
A:House-keeper
B:servant
C:private secretary
D:steward
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Ellen Poe began his literary career by writing ___________________;
A:short stories
B:plays
C:essays
D:poems
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Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new feelings is _____________.
A:blank verse
B:free verse
C:heroic couplet
D:sonnet
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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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Bacon is not only a essayist and philosopher, but also a _________________.
A:lawyer
B:scientist
C:historian
D:dramatist
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Structurally and thematically Bernad Shaw followed the great traditions of _________
A:realism
B:romanticism
C:modernism
D:classicism
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originates in __________________.
A:Puritanism
B:Socialism
C:Transcendentalism
D:naturalism
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The novel Pride and prejudice by Austen mainly centres round the relationship between __________.
A:Mr.Bennet and Mrs.Bennet
B:Darcy and Elizabeth
C:Bingley and Jane
D:Sir William and Luccas
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The _______ techniques are used in some of Eugene O’Neil’s plays to highlight the theatrical effect of the rupture between the two sides of an individual human being, the private and the public.
A:naturalistic
B:expressionistic
C:stream-of-consciousness
D:metaphysical
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Walt Whitman was born and brought up in a family of a ______________.
A:Peasant
B:carpenter
C:captain
D:printer
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An eccentric woman who refuses to accept the passage of time, or the inevitable change and loss that accompanies it may probably refer to _______.
A:Irene in The Man of Property
B:Emily in A Rose for Emily
C:Catherine in Wuthering Heights
D:the widow Douglas in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is _________ in every hearer, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
A:evil
B:virtue
C:kindness
D:tragedy
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______ literary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and problematical one, which has much to do with his “black” vision of life and human beings.
A:Herman Melville’s
B:Washington Irving’s
C:Nathaniel Hawthorne’s
D:Walt Whitman’s
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William Faulkner was born in a family of a _______________________.
A:merchant
B:colonel
C:manager
D:doctor
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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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Each of Emily Dickinson’s poems has a well-chosen title.
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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Benjamin Franklin is a early feminist, because he thinks that women should receive education.
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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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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Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. the main characters in the novels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.
A:错误
B:正确
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George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Scotland.
A:错误
B:正确
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Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Mark Twain.
A:错误
B:正确
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Robert Frost wrote most of his poems in free verse.
A:错误
B:正确
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The greatest English playwright of the 18th century was Goldsmith, whose best play is "The School for Scandal".
A:错误
B:正确
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Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are written in heroic couplet.
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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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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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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Robert L奥鹏华中师范大学平时在线作业ee Frost has long been well known as a poet who belongs to the new.
A:错误
B:正确
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Eugene O’Neil, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams are together called “founders of the American drama.”
A:错误
B:正确
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Puritanism and Calvinistic doctrine have great effects on Hawthorne’s writing.
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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English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of drama.
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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Life on the Mississippi tells a story of Henry James’s boyhood ambition to become a riverboat pilot up and down the Mississippi.
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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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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According to Emerson, man is divine in nature and therefore forever perfectible.
A:错误
B:正确
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