Choose one question from 1-3 and one from 4-6 and give brief answers in English: Walt Whit
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Choose one question from 1-3 and one from 4-6 and give brief answers in English: Henry?James What?is?the?most?famous?theme?in?Henry?James’s?fiction? Henry?James’s “The?Art?of?Fiction”?is?an?indispensable?part?of?his contribution?to?literature.?Please summarize his?view?in?literary?criticism?? What is the difference between realism and psychological realism? Mark Twain In the The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn is a thirteen-year-old boy. Why does Mark Twain use a child as the center of consciousness in this book? What are the contributions Mark Twain made to American literature? What is colloquialism and how is it shown in Mark Twain’s works?
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Choose one question from 1 - 3 and one from 4 - 6 and give brief answers in English: Washington Irving What is the historical and socio-cultural background of the Romantic Period in America? What are the literary characteristics in the works of American romantic period? What is the theme of Rip Van Winkle? List the major works of Washington Irving and discuss the artistic characteristics of his works. James Fenimore Cooper What are the artistic achievements of James Fenimore Cooper? What are Cooper’s major works and what is “frontier novel”? What are the characteristics of Cooper’s writing techniques?
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Choose one question from 1-3 and give an answer in English: Walt Whitman Please define “free verse”. Comment on Whitman’s poetic style and language in “O Captain! My Captain!”. What are the major themes of Whitman’s poetry? Choose one question from 4-6 and give an answer in English: Emily Dickinson 4. What ideas does the poem “I taste a liquor never brewed” convey? 5. What is Emily Dickinson’s view of death in the poem “Because I could not stop for Death”? 6. What are the artistic features of Emily Dickinson’s poetry?
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Choose two of the following questions and give brief answers in English What is American Transcendentalism? 2. What is the influence of Transcendentalism? 3 .What is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendental idea and his view of nature? 4. Read the passage and answer the following question: Where is this passage taken and who is the author? What does the passage convey and how do you understand it ? Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part of Particle of God.
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Choose two of the following questions and give brief answers in English Give explanations of the symbolic meaning of “Pequod” in Moby-Dick by Melville. Discuss the allegory and symbolism in Moby-Dick. Analyze the characters in Melville’s works. What’s Herman Melville’s “black” vision of life and human beings? Why do you think Longfellow can earn such a great popularity in the readers of the 19thcentury? Summarize Longfellow’s typical poetic features in your own words. Exemplify the optimistic feeling expressing in Longfellow’s poems.
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Choose ONE of the following questions and give brief answers in English. What are the literary characteristics in the works of American romantic period? What is the theme of Rip Van Winkle? List the major works of Washington Irving and discuss the artistic characteristics of his works. What are Cooper’s major works and what is “frontier novel”? What are the characteristics of Cooper’s writing techniques? What are the artistic achievements of Edgar Allan Poe? Discuss the allegory and symbolism in Young Goodman Brown. Analyze the effects of Puritanism on Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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