英美文学选读2013年4月真题试题及答案解析（00604）

Discuss Melville' s symbolism in Moby - Dick.

What is Walt Whitman’s poetic style?

Discuss Charles Dickens' features in character portraying.

Please summarize Emily Dickinson" s poetry features.

William Shakespeare is one of the moat remarkable playwrights the world has ever known. What are his four greatest tragedies? What are the characteristic of the four tragedies in common?

"They rose when she entered- -a small, fut woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. [Her skeleton was small and spare perhaps that was why what would have been. merely plumpness in another was obesity in her.] She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face. to another while the visitors stated their errand.”

Questions:

A.Who is the writer of the story? What is the title of the story?

B.What" s the meaning of the underlined sentence?

C.What can you infer from the passage about the protagonist?

What do you think T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land presents and reflects?

". I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere apes and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made the difference.'

Questions:

A."Who is the writer of the poem? What' s the title of the poem?

B.What additional meaning do the two roads have?

C.What dilemma is the speaker facing?

" Will no one tell me what she sings? -

Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

For old, unhappy, far - off things,'

And battle long ago;

Or is it some more humble lay,'

Familiar matter of today?

Some natural sorrow loss, or pain,

That has been, and may be again?"

( From William Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper")

Questions:

A.What does the phrase plaintive numbers" mean?

B.What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

C.What do you think Wordsworth intends to suggest in the poem?

“Man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually . This is an attitude towards life that_________had been tying to illustrate in his writing.

Hemingway' first true novel,_________,casts light on a whole generation after the First World War.

Because I was happy upon the heath,

And smil'd among the. winter's snow;

They cloth'd me in the clothes -of death,

And taught me to sing the notes of woe. "

(From Blake's Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Experience).

Questions:

A.What does "heath" indicate? 

B.What does ." the clothes of death". mean?

C.What idea does the poem reveal?

Most of Faulkner' , works are focused on the_________subjects and consciousness.

Faulkner, one of the leading American writers, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950 for the anti -racist_________.

To a great extent, Hawthorne' s . view of man and human history originates in_________.

Many of Frost's poems are fragrant with nature quality._________in his poems are drawn fro the simple country life and the pastoral landscape.

Robert Frost' s first collection A Boy' s will is marked by an intense but restrained motion and the characteristic flavor of_________life.

Dickinson’s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. Her poems have no _________, hence are always quoted by their first lines.

As a genre, _________emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.

As _________saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation. I could enable Americans to celebrate their release from the Old World and the colonial rule.

Before and during the Civil War, Whitman stood firmly on the side of the North and wrote a series of poems incorporating his emotions and feeling during the period, which were gathered as a collection under the title of_________.

As a key to the whole novel of The Scarlet Letter, the letter A takes on different layers of symbolic meanings.' The_________is one of the salient characteristics of Hawthorn's art.

It was a sort of first attempt at writing his masterpiece_________that made Fitzgerald one of the greatest American novelists.

In Moby - Dick, the skillful use of_________both as a character and a narrator gives the novel a moral magnitude.

Fitzgerald s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of_________in which he shows a particular interest in the upper - class society, especially the upper - class young people.

Hemingway once said that_________was one book from which " all modern American literature comes."

Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th - century " "novels and the founder of psychological realism.

The first American prose epic is_________.

The mot famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson.

William Blake’s _________paints a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone.

John Milton's_________,is probably his most memorable prose work , which in a great plea for freedom of the pres.

The most important play among the comedies of Shakespeare is_________.

John Milton's_________is the moat perfect example of the verse drama after the Creek style in English.

The major Romantic poets like Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature , which was later regarded as_________.

In English Romantic period "Lake Poets" refers to Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and_________.

Dickens attacks the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life in_________.

Jonathan Swift's_________makes the most devastating protest against the inhuman exploitation and oppression of the Irish people by the. English ruling class.

The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility" belongs to_________.

Thomas Hardy's works known as “novels of character and environment". are the moat representatives of him as both a_________and a critical realist writer.

One of Shelley' s greatest political lyrics is_________,which. was later to become a rallying song of the British Communist Party.'

Milton' s , literary achievements can be composed of the early poetic works, the middle_________pamphlets and the last great poems.

George Bernard Shaw's play_________established his position as the leading play-wright of his time.

Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as "_________", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.

The typical. Representatives of George Bernard Shaw are Widower' s House and_________.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possessions of a good fortune,. must be in want of a wife." The quoted lines are taken from_________.

A good style of prose "proper words in proper places". was defined by_________.

All of the following statements on Jane Austen's works is true EXCEPT_________.

It was after the publication of_________. Lawrence was recognized as a prominent novelist.

T.S. Eliot"s _________is the best of his plays in the sense that it contains the best poetry and the most coherent drama.

All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower - elass people EXCEPT_________.