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1、 John Steinbeck’s masterpiece is a monumented epic of the Great

Depression.

2、 John Steinbeck largely based his fiction on .

3、 A playwright of social philosophy, Arthur Miller advocates that , and none

of rank, is the tragic hero of modern times.

4、 Arthur Miller’s most impressive play was .

5、 Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22”, considered to be one of the most significant works of “” since World War II, is an almost archetypal example of

6、 F. Soctt Fitzgerald was a spokesman forr the so-called .

7、 “ is generally regarded as Fitzgerald’s masterpiece.

8、 Cheever is generally acclaimed as a

9、 Cheever’s major theme is the dilemma of American class.

10、 Cheever’s style is manifested in the use of realism and symbols.

11、 Updike uses the point of view in the “A & P”.

12、 “A & P” is an appropriate symbol for the In this setting, the story reveals the sensitive character of a young grocery clerk who rejects the standards of the A & P and in doing so commits himself to that kind of .

13、 Jack Kerouac’s best novel is “.

14、 Katherine Anne Porter’s first book of stories was “.

15、 Much of the critical acclaim for the “Theft” results from her skillful use of in it. The stolen purse symbolizes

16、 Isaac Bashevis Singer’s fiction is characteristically in the tradition of the ,

mingling forthright literalness about the visible world with an equally literal rendition of fantastic and supernatural forms.

17、 “The Dean’s December” is written by .

18、 As the leader of the Harlem writers who created the Black Literary Renaissance of the 1920s, was known as the “Poet Laureate of Harlem” and “O. Henry of Harlem”.

19、 In the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” Hughes uses the rivers to symbolize

20、 In 1920 O’Neill’s first full-length play “” was professionally

produced on Broadway and won the Pulitzer Prize, and the name of O’Neill became known throughout the country.

21、 “ can be justly termed England’s national epic and its hero

Beowulf — one of the national heroes of the English people.

22、 was called the “father of English poetry,” and his allegories and

symbols are tinged with

23、 Ballads are anonymous

24、 The first mention of Robin Hood in literature is in Langland’s “.

25、 At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist Thomas More

(1478-1535) wrote his “” (1516) in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s sufferings and put forward his ideal of a future happy society.

26、 Thomas Wyatt was the first to introduce

27、 The literature which the Normans brought to England is remarkable for its bright,

romantic tales of , in marked contrast with the strength and somberness of Anglo-Saxon poetry.

28、 The greatest of the pioneers of English drama was

29、 Great popularity was won by John Lyly’s novel “Eupheus” which gave rise to the term

“euphuism,” designating an affected style of .

30、 The works of William Shakespeare are a great landmark in the history of world

literature for he was one of the first founders of , a masterhand at portrayal of human characters and relations.

31、 “” is the profoundest expression of Shakespeare’s humanism and his criticism of

contemporary life.

32、 Of Bacon’s literary works, the most important are the “.

33、 The largest and most important of Bacon’s professional works are the treatises entitled

“Maxims of the Law” and “”.

34、 John Milton’s greatest work “” presents the author’s views in an allegoric

religious form, and the reader will easily discern its basic idea — the exposure of reactionary forces of his time and passionate appeal for freedom.

35、 Bunyan’s most important work is “,” written in the old-fashioned,

36、 The most outstanding personality of the epoch of Enlightenment in England was

who ruthlessly exposed the dirty mercenary essence of bourgeois relationships.

37、 To read Milton’s “Il Penserose” and Thomas Gray’s “Elegy” is to see the beginning and

the perfection of that “ which largely occupied English poets for more than a century.

38、 With the publication of his frontier tale, “,” Twain became nationally famous.

39、 The first uncompromising naturalistic novel in America, “

pointed an unabashed picture of the bitter life of the slum-dwellers.

40、 Stephen Crane’ most famous short story is “The Open Boat”.

41、 “ has been called “the first full-bodied naturalistic American novel” and “a

consciously naturalistic manifesto.” It is a classic case study of the inevitable effect of environment and heredity on human lives.

42、 The narrator of “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” is the “Cantos” is .

43、 Howells defines realism as “fidelity to experience and probability of motive,” as a quest

of rather than the exceptional or the uniquely high or low.

44、 “” won Henry James international fame and which reveals James’

fascination with his “international theme”.

45、 was one of the three staunch advocates of nineteenth-century American

realism, the other two being Howells and Mark Twain.

46、 “A juggler with syntax, grammar, and diction,” of any established conventions of poetry, thus becoming a symbol of the modern pioneering spirit in modern American literary history.

47、 “The Bridge” is one of the long poems to come out of the twentieth-century American

modern tradition, ranking alongside “The Waste Land,” “the Cantos,” and “Paterson”.

48、 T.S. Eliot read “ three times and concluded that it was “the first step

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