From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to be_______ to the core.

The Great Gatsby is an examination of American myth in the 20th century. Fitzgerald deliberately depicts Gatsby as a mysterious person so as to achieve the effect that Gatsby is American Everyman. Please make a brief comment on The Great Gatsby.

Henry James' literary criticism is an indispensable part of his contribution to literature. What's his outlook in literary criticism?

According to the setting of the poem Paradise lost, discuss the theme of it.

How do you understand the white whale, Moby Dick in Herman Melville' s Moby-Dick?

What are the characteristics of Fielding' s language?

Thomas Hardy is often regarded as a transitional write. Some critics believe that emotionally traditional and intellectually advanced. How do you understand this idea?

We doesn’t stop again at any town, for days and days; kept right along down the river. We was down south in the warm weather, now, and a mighty long ways from home. We begun to come to trees with Spanish moss on them, hanging down from the limbs like long gray beards. It was the first I ever see it growing. and it made the woods look solemn and dismal. So now the frauds reckoned they was out of danger, and they begun to work the villages again. "

Questions:

A.Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.

B.Who do “we" refer to?

C.What are the features of the language of this novel?

"It's all very well, my boy. But, then, why don't you go and talk to your father's pals?"

But they're rather different."

Not at all.

They're the common people.

After all, whom do you mix with now- -among the common people?

Those that exchange ideas, like the middle classes.

The rest don’t interest you. "

"But ---there"s the life---”

"T don’t believe there's a lot more life from Miriam than you could get from any educated girl say Miss Miriam.

It is you who are snobbish about class. "

Questions:

A.What is the title of the novel from which this passage is taken?Who is the author?

B.Who is speaking to whom?

C.What idea does the dialogue between them express?

There was a child went forth every day,

And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,

And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,

Or for many years or stretching cycles of years. "

Questions:

A.Who is the author of the poem?

B.What does the “child” refer to?

C.What is the main idea of the poem?

The 20th-century stream-of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillful used by _______to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.