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The first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity was?____.
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Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______.
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Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers?
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_____ had an evident influence on naturalism. It seemed to stress the animality of man, to suggest that he was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution.
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As a realist, Mark Twain concerned particularly about the local character of a region, which came about as “_________”.
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______ is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States.
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Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain’s writing style?
①
ungrammatical and complicated
②
colloquial and concrete
④
deep influence on contemporary writers
【单选题】
After the Civil War America was transformed from ______ to ______.
①
an agrarian community … an industrialized and commercialized society
②
an agrarian community … a society of freedom and equality
③
a poor and backward society … an industrialized and commercialized society
④
an industrialized and commercialized society … a highly developed society
【单选题】
Which of the following is NOT right about Mark Twains style of language?
①
His sentence structures are long, ungrammatical and difficult to read.
②
His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect.
③
His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration, repetition and anti-climax.
④
His style of language had exerted rather deep influence on the contemporary writers.
【判断题】
The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.