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美国文学选读 第三版 课后习题答案 陶洁(部分)
时间：2021.03.12 创作：欧阳文 Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin Questions
1.Why did Franklin write his Autobiography? Franklin says that because his son may wish to know about his life, he is taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past. He also says that he has enjoyed his life and would like
2.What made Franklin decide to leave the brother to whom
he
had
been
apprenticed?
to
repeat
it
His brother was passionate, and had often beaten him. The aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to him through his whole life .After a brush with the law,
Franklin
left
his
brother.
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3.How did he arrive in Philadephia?
First he set out in a boat for Amboy, the boat dropped him off about 50 miles from Burlington, the next day he reached Burlington on foot, in Burlington he found a boat which was going towards Philadelphia, he arrived there about eight or nine o’clock, on the Sunday morning and landed at the Market
4.What features do you find in the style of the above
selection?
Street
wharf.
It is the pattern of Puritan simplicity, directness, and concision(言简意赅). The narrative is lucid(易懂的), the structure is simple, the imagery is homely(朴素的). Unit
2
Edgar
Allen
Poe
1.Who is the narrator? What wrong does he want to redress? Montresor.
Fortunato,one of wine experts insulted him, so he wanted
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to murder him.
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2.What is the pretext he uses to lure Fortunato to his
wine
cellar?
He baits Fortunato by telling him he has obtained what he believes to be a cask of Amontillado a rare and
valuable
sherry
wine.
Fortunato is anxious to determine whether or not it is truly Amontillado, so he goes to the vault with Montresor. 3.What
happens
to
Fortunato
in
the
end?
He was walled up alive behind bricks in a wine cellar.
4.Describe briefly how Poe characterizes Montresor and
Fortunato
as
contrasts?
Poe uses color imagery to characterize them. Montresor face is covered in a black silk mask, In contrast, Fortunato dresses the motley-colored costume of the court fool, who gets literally and tragically fooled by Montresor's masked motives. The color schemes here represent the irony of
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