Part Ⅱ: Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (10%)
1. To Hawthorne and Melville every person is a sinner and great __________is therefore
indispensable for the improvement of human nature.
2. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as the Age of __________.
3. The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American __________.
4. More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general __________ about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed.
5. In the history of American literature, Ezra Pound was regarded as a leading spokesman of the famous “__________ Movement”.
6. Eugene O’Neill is considered the leading __________ of the modern period in American literature.
7. Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet. In his poetry, he made the colloquial __________ speech into a poetic expression .
8. Hemingway’s first novel The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after the __________ and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation.”
9. John Steinbeck is a novelist of the 1930s. His The Grapes of Wrath is a record of the life of the dispossessed and the wretched farmers during __________.
10. Besides his volumes of poems, Pound also worked out quite a few translations, from which his affinity to the __________ and his strenuous effort in the study of Oriental literature can be seen .
