【判断题】
The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
【判断题】
At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called Romanticism Movement.
【判断题】
In the novel Moby Dick, the rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab was thought to be against the white whale.
【判断题】
In William Cullen Bryant’s poem “Thanatopsis”, the title means view of death.
【单选题】
About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is NOT right?
①
Its very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.
②
Its a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.
③
Its mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main characters and the people in general.
④
In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.
【单选题】
In the novel Moby Dick, the rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab was thought to be against ____.
②
the gliding great demon of the seas of life
③
the overwhelming, mysterious vastness of the universe and the awesome forces
④
the savage harpooners and the motley crew
【单选题】
The Romantic Period in American literature stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of _________.
③
the War for Independence
【单选题】
As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional style which is now called free verse, which is ______.
①
lyrical poetry with chanting refrains
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poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme
③
poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat
④
poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings
【单选题】
Washington Irving’s_________ became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic in the first half of the 19th century.
【单选题】
In William Cullen Bryant’s poem “Thanatopsis”, the title means______.