Unit 5: American Literature

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Exercise Ⅲ

III. Fill in the blanks:

1. and are the two major writers of the post-Revolutionary period.

2. "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" were stories written by .

3. In 1852, a New England woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a novel titled , which intensified the political debate on slavery.

4. Mark Twain's is considered the greatest novel in American literature.

5. Henry James' major works include . His works often described Americans living in .

6. Upton Sinclair's novel exposed the horrible lives of meat-packing factory workers.

7. Ezra Pound's poetry is famous for , the use of strong, concrete images.

8. T. S. Eliot's long poem revealed a pessimistic view of post-World War I society. He dominated the so-called movement in poetry.

9. After World War I, many novelists produced literary works of disillusionment. Some of them lived abroad and were known as the " ."

10. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel was about youth's golden dream turning to disappointment.

11. Name three novels written by Ernest Hemingway: .

12. The Sound and the Fury was written by , whose prose style was experimental.

13. Name two plays written by Eugene O'Neill: .

14. John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was a portrait of a poor family during the period of .

15. Richard Wright wrote the novel , and Ralph Ellison wrote the novel . Both were writers.

16. The representative work of the "Beat Generation" was Alan Ginsberg's poem .

17. won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, the first Afro-American writer to receive this honor. Two of her best novels are and .

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