判斷題 美國文學(xué)

1. The Calvinist doctrine of "original sin" exerted great influence on Hawthorne. (  T)  2. To Hawthorne sin will get punished,one way or another. (T  ) 3. Walt Whitman used parallelism and refrain in his poems. (  T)4. Walt Whitman was regarded as the Zenith in American romantic poetry. ( T )5. Allan Poe defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty. ( T )6. According to Allan Poe,art serves for pleasure.The chief aim of poetry is beauty,namely,to produce a feeling of beauty in the reader. ( T )7. According to Henry James,the aim of the novel is to reflect life reality. ( T )8. Allan Poe was regarded as the forerunner of American Imagism. (  F)9. Allan Poe advocated "pure" poetry. ( T )10. Traditional novelists, especially the critical realistic novelists,generally focused their attention on social significance. ( T )11. Henry James discovered the trick of making his characters reveal themselves with minimal intervention of the author. ( T )12. N.Hawthorne was a symbolic writer in some sense. ( T )13. O.Henry paid little attention to plot in writing. (   F  )14. Allan Poe exerted great influence upon many southern American writers, especially William Faulkner.  (   T  )15. Henry James abandoned traditional way of telling a story in some of his short stories and novels.  (   T  )16. Mark Twain's influence upon modern American writers isn't so strong, he mainly influenced some local writers. (    F )17. Mark Twain never touched upon the problem of slavery system in his novels.  (     F)18. Mark Twain was the father of American language. (    T )19. N.Hawthorne only touched upon the problem of love in The Scarlet Letter. (    F )20. American literature is the oldest of all national literature. F21. All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil.T22. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology.F23. Frosts concern with nature reflected his deep moral uncertainties.T24. Faulkners region was the Deep North, with its bitter history of slavery, civil war and destruction.F25. Ezra Pound was one of the prime movers of Imagism. ( T )26. Emerson is the mentor to Thoreau. ( T )27. Emerson is a short story writer. The end of his stories is generally unexpected. F 28. In his poetry, Walt Whitman sings praise of material civilization and scientific technology. T 29. Mark Twain depicted the adventurous spirit of American people.T30. Nathaniel Hawthorne used many symbols in his representative novel. T31. The colonies that became the first United States were for the most part English. T32. In 1620 a number of Puritans came to settle in Massachusetts . T33. The seventeenth century American poets adapted the style of established European poets to the subject matter confronted in a strangely new environment.T34. The Last of The Mohicans were the best work by Adgar Allan Poe. F35. The first American Literature was neither American nor really literature. It was not American because it was the work mainly immigrants from England. T36. In American Literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of reason and Revolution. T37. Annabel Lee ,a poem from Adgar Allan Poe ,mourns the death of a beautiful girl. T38. The first important American novelist is Adgar Allan Poe. F39. Washington Irving was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War. T40. of the Puritans migrated to the colonies in order to find freedom from religious persecution.T41. Hawthornes unique gift was for the creation of strongly symbolic stories which touch the deepest roots of mans moral nature.T42. Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable.T43. Emerson was recognized as the leader of transcendentalist movement , and he always applied the term “Transcendentalist” to himself or to his belief and ideas. ( T )44. In 1836, Whitman published his first book, Nature, which met with a wild reception.( F )45. Melville devised a unique poetic style called free verse that refers to the poetry without fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.( F )46 Transcendentalism exalted feeling over reason, individual expression over the restraints of law and custom. ( T )47All his literary life, Thoreau seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life. ( F ).48. Scarlet Letter is set in the seventeenth century. It is an elaboration of a fact which the author took out of the life of the Puritan pat.( T )49. Mark Twin should be remembered both as a great literary artist and a great social critic in the history of the U.S. ( T )50Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about man and nature.( T )51. The subjects of Walt Whitman are often war and its effects on people, or contests, such as hunting or bullfighting, which demand stamina and courage.( F )