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e he ________ A. glorified nature B. loved people C. loved society D. wrote poetry 11. James Fenimore Cooper was the first American writer to write about_________ A. the American South B. the American frontiers life C. the American legends D. the American culture was known as “the poet of American Revolution”. A. Franklin B. Irving C. Freneau D. Poe 13. Phillip Freneau’s poem The Wild Honey Suckle is about________ A. the death of a flower B. the beauty of nature C. the transience of life D. the bless of God 14. “And planted here the guardian shade and sent soft waters murmuring by” The forms of rhyming in these two lines are ______________ A. assonance and consonance B. alliteration and consonance C. assonance and alliteration D. slant rhyme and alliteration 15. There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That appears like the weight Of cathedral tunes” The images used in these few lines are mainly_____ ___ A. visual and olfactory B. visual and tactile C. visual and auditory D. kinesthetic 16. Poetry is a literary genre that uses metrical form to chiefly _____________ A. municate information B. create imagery C. reveal character D. express emotional experience. 17. Poe believed the greatest theme for poetry is ___________ A. death of a relative. B. death of a honorable man. C. death of a lover D. death of a beautiful woman.. 18. According to Poe, all elements of a story or a poem should have one purpose. That is __________ A . to tell the story B. to create an effect. C. to keep the reader in suspense D. to be humorous 19. In the development of the plot, _____ ,which pushes the story forward, is of the primary importance A. conflict B. point of view C. theme D. climax Allan Poe’s poems are of the following features except__________ A. being melancholic B. being musical C. being brief D. being moralistic II. Match the works with the authors given below. The works given are more than the authors given. (每小題 1 分,共 10 分 ) a. Ben Franklin b. Washington Irving c. James Fenimore Cooper d. Phillip Freneau e. Edgar Allan Poe 1.( ) Poor Richard’s Almanac 2.( ) Rip Van Winkle 3.( ) The Sketch Book 4.( ) Autobiography 5.( ) The Wild Honey suckle 6.( ) Israfel 7.( ) The Deerslayer 8 ( ) The Cask of Amontillado 9.( ) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 10.( ) The Indian Burying Ground III. Decide the following statements are true or false. Write T for true and F for false. (每 小 題 1 分 ,共 20 分 ) 1. The colonial American literature was in the form of poetry, novels and short stories 2. American poetry of the eighteenth century has an imitative character, imitating the reigning English models of the 18th cent