【单选题】
Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkners novels?
【单选题】
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is T. S. Eliots most striking early achievement. The poem is a sort of ______monologue.
【单选题】
______ is Edwin Arlington Robinson’s best character sketch telling the story of the well-educated and rich hero who is admired by the town people but suddenly shot himself on one night.
③
“The House on the Hill”
【判断题】
Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his international theme.
【判断题】
As a realist, Mark Twain concerned particularly about the local character of a region, which came about as “Local Colorism”.
【判断题】
The first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity was Bret Harte.
【单选题】
The end of ______ marked the beginning of The Gilded Age, an age of excess and extremes, of decline and progress, of poverty and dazzling wealth, of gloom and hope.
①
the American War of Independence
【单选题】
In Henry James’ The Portrait of A Lady, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of ______.
①
the force of convention
②
the free spirit of the New World
③
the decline of aristocracy
④
the corruption of the newly rich
【单选题】
In his masterpiece The Portrait of A Lady, Henry James _________.
①
incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environment
②
tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of the European life as well as the American society
③
describes a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter in Rome
④
tells about some Europeans who learn with difficulty to adapt themselves to the American life
【单选题】
At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “_____”.
①
the English Renaissance
③
the American Renaissance