(美國文學v)Week 9  Midterm Preview:

I.                    Multiple choice 20%

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/naal7/contents/A/welcome.asp

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/naal7/contents/B/welcome.asp

考過的quizzes(22+20+27題中)選15-20題

II.                 Identification (Identify the author/title/significance of the cited passage)

帶讀過的詩文+主打星大文的題庫 40%

1.       Anne Bradstreet : The Author to Her Book, To My Dear and Loving Husband, A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment

2.       Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), Longfellow's "A Psalm Of Life".

3.       Rip Van Winkle (text): Quotes and Analysis

4.   EMERSON - NATURE--Web text, The American Scholar (cliff notes)(Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.)

5.       Walden (quotes and analysis)

6.       Young Goodman Brown (Young Goodman Brown Quotes)

7.       My Kinsman Major Molineux (Charon: Will you be kind enough to show me the way to the ferry?)

8.       The Fall of the House of Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher Quotes)

III.               Essay 40%

1.       Rip Van Winkle: (1) Personification: The Catskills as a Character (2) How does a short story that is based on borrowed ideas come to be one of the most widely read and loved pieces of American literature? (3) Suggested Essay Questions

2.       Emerson's Use of Metaphor

3.       Walden (essay questions with answers)

4.       Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism

5.       Edgar Allan Poe and Romanticism