美国题型及复习范围题型1.作家作品配对10个2.读课文选段,写出和作品名称和作家姓名共10段3.回答问题120 字4.评论题或问答题(250字)复习范围1.记住本学期学过的作家和主要作品。
见每课作者介绍。
2.阅读本学期课堂分析过的课文。
3.思考课后练习题,给出自己的解答。
(以下课后思考题作为复习重点,仅做重点,并非原题)Page 442. No. 3. 4.Page 477. No. 1.2.3.Page 492 No. 1. 2.Page 523 No. 1. 5Page 564. No. 1. 2.4.要熟悉并能应用以下主要的文学术语。
1. The Lost GenerationAfter the First World War, some young writers voluntarily left America and settled in Paris, and others who stayed behind felt themselves to be exiles in spirit. All of them were “outsiders” who observed America society and culture objectively, from distance and tried to create new types of writing. They shunned the false idea of success put forth by the social system. Hemingway and Pound have been the representatives of such writers.2. Modernist LiteratureModernist literature is formed by many different literary schools such as stream of consciousness. The common tendencies of them are the suspicion and denial of the western civilization, the exploration into the inner world and unconsciousness of men and the innovation and experiment of artistic technique. Modernists feel no connection with history or institutions. Their experience is that of alienation, loss, and despair.3. SymbolA symbol is a person, place, or thing comes to represent an abstract idea or concept -- it is anything that stands for something beyond itself.4. American Naturalism:Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character. It was depicted as a literary movement that seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality. Naturalistic works exposed the dark harshness of life, includingpoverty, racism, violence, prejudice, disease, corruption, and filth. As a result, naturalistic writers were frequently criticized for being too blunt.5. ImagismImagism is the name given to a movement in poetry, originating in 1912 and represented by Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and others, aiming at clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images.6. The Black Literature ( Afro-American Literature )In the 40’s of 20th century , the literary works by Negroes was no longer ignored and now Afro-American literature with some famous black writers as Langston Hughes with his novel Native Son, which forces public attention on to the problems of black Americans. Gradually, the black literature has become an important part of American Literature.7. Stream of ConsciousnessDefinition: Stream of consciousness is characterized by a flow of thoughts and images, which may not always appear to have a coherent structure or cohesion. The plot line may weave in and out of time and place, carrying the reader through the life span of a character or further along a timeline to incorporate the lives (and thoughts) of characters from other time periods.Writers who create stream-of-consciousness works of literature focus on the emotional and psychological processes that are taking place in the minds of one or more characters. Important character traits are revealed through an exploration of what is going on in the mind.Also Known As: Interior MonologueStream of Consciousness is a narrative technique that presents thoughts as if they were coming directly from a character’s mind. Lacking chronological order, the events in a stream of consciousness narrative are presented from the character’s point of view, mixed in with the character’s ongoing feelings and memories.The term "stream-of-consciousness" which was coined by William James in Principles of Psychology (1890) is used to indicate a literary approach to the presentation of psychological aspects of characters in fiction. It presents unspoken materials directly from the psyche of the characters, or make the characters tell their own inner thoughts in monologues The realm of life with which stream-of-consciousness novel is concerned is mental and spiritual experience, such as sensations, memories, imaginations, conceptions, intuitions, feelings and the process of association.Stream of consciousness writing is a variant of the third person point of view, in which the narrator relates only what is experienced by a character’s mind from moment to moment.Features of Stream of Consciousness1.Presents thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.2.It shows a mind at work.3.It may contain parts that do not seen coherent because that are based on the free associationof ideas and feelings of an individual's mind.4.It is in 3rd person。