【单选题】
“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough”. This is the shortest poem written by?______.
【单选题】
Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkners novels?
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“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