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ury. 3. The early American romanticism stressed emotion, feeling, intuition instead of reason. 4. Philip Freneau was a most important poet in the 18th century American literature. 5. Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure tale, and the frontier stories. 6. American Puritanism derived its theological princ iples from Calvinism and aimed at a thorough reform of the church. 7. The first American settlers came to America to escape religious persecution.. . 8. Benjamin Franklin was versatile in every possible field and he was chiefly noted as .a man of civic mind. 9. Autobiography by Franklin was a fascinating record of the age of American Revolution, in which great political turmoil was faithfully depicted. Romantic literary movement was characterized with an interest in nature, imagination as well as the a tendency to depict the grotesque. Irving was the first American writer who wrote poetry in its true sense. Fenimore, Cooper was notable for his first exploration of the native theme of American frontier life. Leather Stocking Tales consists of three novelsThe Pioneers, The Prairie and The Last of the Mohicans. Freneau was remembered mostly for his patriotic poems such as The Wild Honey Suckle and the Indian Burial Ground. 15. The Wild Honey Suckle is a poem on the theme of glorifying the Indian Culture. 16. The only standard by which we designate a short story is its length. 17. Poe is a poet of the first rank, a literary critic of great insight and a short story writer of large popularity. 18. Poe defined poetry as the rhythmic creation of beauty. 19. Israfel expresses the poet’s deep regret for the earthly existence and strong longing for superior beauty. . 20. “The death of a beautiful woman” is the most legitimate poetic theme to Poe. IV .Identify the following excerpts.( 每 小 題 4 分 ,共 28 分 ) 1. At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catabs of Paris. 2. “If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he where I, He might not sing so wildly well A mortal melody 3. At the next moment, the breech of Hawkeye’s rifle fell on the naked head of his adversary, whose muscles appeared to wither under the shock, as he sank from the arms of Duncan, flexible and motionless. 4. The bystanders began now to look at each other, nod , wink significantly, and tap their fingers against their foreheads. 5.“ From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came: If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same。 【 考核方法 】 期末閉卷 , 筆試占 60%, 平時(shí)考核(出勤、作業(yè),測(cè)驗(yàn),課堂表現(xiàn))占 40% 。 先修課程不在考核范圍之內(nèi)??己藢W(xué)生對(duì)文學(xué)作品的理解分析能力和鑒賞能力,幫助學(xué)生認(rèn)識(shí)到本課程的學(xué)習(xí)重點(diǎn)和難點(diǎn),為以后的深入學(xué)習(xí)提供可依靠的途徑和方法。 坡的 小說和詩歌的 創(chuàng)作原則是什么? 5. 什么是超驗(yàn)主 義?超驗(yàn)主義的主要思想是什么? 6. 在文學(xué)創(chuàng)作中,人們稱霍桑的視角為“黑暗的視角”