II. Blank-Filling 20’
1. ____’s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinctly American literature to be written in English.
2. Hard work, ____, piety, and ____were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing, including the sermons, books and letters of such noted Puritan clergymen as John Cotton and Cotton Mather.
3. Most Puritan verse was decidedly plodding, but the work of two writers, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, rose to the level of____
4. From 1732 to 1785, Franklin wrote and published his famous ____, an annual collection of proverbs.
5. On January 10, 1776, Paine’s famous pamphlet ____ appeared. It boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”, and brought the separatist agitation to a crisis.
6. As a poet, ____heralded American literary independence: his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects.
7. The attitudes of America’s writers were shaped by their ____environment and an array of ideas inherited from the ____traditions of Europe.
8. Romantic writers placed increasing value on the ____ expression of emotion and displayed increasing attention to the ____ states of their characters.
9. Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: ____ and ____.
10. The central figure in Cooper’s Novels, ____ goes by various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslyer, Pathfinder, and Hawkeye.
III. Chinese Alternation of English Literary Terms10’
1. Puritanism
2. Romanticism
3. Sketch Book
4. Thanatopsis
5. The Wild Honey Suckle
IV. Give a brief comment on American Crisis.15’
V. Answer the following questions.25’
1. What does the word “Power” in To a Waterfowl refer to? 5’
2. What is your understanding on Helen in the poem To Helen? 5’
3. What is the tone of Thanatopsis?5’
4. List some sound devices used in Raven 10’
VI. Translate this poem by E. Dickinson.20’
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any horses like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
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