超星 - 文学常识复习作业

单选题

"My Little Horse must think it queer/To stop without a farm house near."The above two lines follow ____________.

A. iambic tetrameter
B. iambic pentameter
C. trochaic tetrameter
D. trochaic pentameter

单选题

Which of the following comments on the novel The Great Gatsby is NOT True?

A. The author of it is Scott Fitzgerald.
B. Gatsby's failure magnifies the end of the American Dream.
C. It is the greatest novel in American literature.
D. It fully explores the disillusionment and despair of the Lost Generation.

查看答案

单选题

Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniquess Faulkner used to construct his stories include ____________, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.

A. multiple points of views
B. first person point of view
C. expressionism
D. impressionism

查看答案

单选题

Fitzgerald's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ____________ .

A. the Jazz Age
B. the Romantic Period
C. the Neoclassical Period
D. the new world

查看答案

单选题

From Eugene O'Neil's works, we can see he is __________.

A. a man of apathy
B. a man of inactivity
C. a man of pessimism
D. a man of optimism

查看答案

单选题

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood/And sorry I could not travel both..."In the above two lines of Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken", the poet, by implication, was referring to ___________.

A. a travel experience
B. a marriage decision
C. a middle-age crisis
D. one's course of life

查看答案

单选题

American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated from the civilization were commonly called __________.

A. sons of liberty
B. fatherless children
C. the beat generation
D. the lost generation

查看答案

单选题

Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the __________.

A. life in New York
B. country life in New England
C. sea adventures
D. life on the Mississippi River

查看答案

单选题

After World War II some Jewish Americans used Jewish subjects and Jewish life as a way to view postwar America. Among them were ____________, the author of "Looking for Mr. Green" and Dangling Man.

A. Saul Bellow
B. Joseph Heller
C. Ralph Ellison
D. Arthur Miller

查看答案

单选题

___________ by Joseph Heller is a classical novel of "black humor".

A. Looking for Mr. Green
B. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Catch 22
Death of a Salesman

查看答案