英美文学选读2009年4月真题试题及答案解析（00604）

Briefly discuss William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterization, plot construction and language.

Briefly discuss Mark Twain's art of fiction in terms of the setting,the language, and the characters, etc.,based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

What's Dreiser' s naturalistic belief? Please discuss the question with Carrie, a character in Sister Carrie as an example.

Who are the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what are the differences in their understanding of the “truth”?

Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel?

I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-

The Stillness in the Room

Was like the Stillness in the Air-

Between the Heaves of Storm-

The Eyes around- had wrung them dry-

And Breaths were gathering firm

For that last Onset- when the King

Be witnessed - in the Room-

Questions:

A.Identify the poet.

B.What does “the King” refer to?

C.What moment is the poem trying to describe?

List at least two leading neoclassicists in England.What did Neoclassicists celebrate in literary creation?

Wherefore feed and clothe and save

From the cradle to the grave

Those ungrateful drones who would

Drain your sweat- nay, drink your blood?

Questions:

A.Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.

B.What figure of speech is used in Line 2?

C.Whom does “drones” refer to?

The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot:

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;

Am an attendant lord, one that will do.

To swell a progress, start a scene or two.

Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,

Deferential, glad to be of use,

Politic, cautious, and meticulous,

Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;

Questions:

A.Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.

B.Who's the speaker of the quoted lines?

C.What does the first line show about the speaker?

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.Identify the poet.

B.From which poem and which collection of the poet are these lines taken?

C.What does the poet describe in the poem?

Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of with a double vision.

In the American Romantic writings,______ came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral law.

The desire for an escape from society and a return to ______ became a permanent convention of the American literature.

Disregarding grammar and punctuation,______ always used “i” instead of “I” in his poems to show his protest against self-importance.

Though Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in ______ , he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man's life in his long poetic career.

The Birthmark drives home symbolically______ point that evil is a man's birthmark, something he was born with.

The Financier ,The Titan and The Stoic written by ______ are called his “Trilogy of Desire”.

The American woman poet______ wanted to live simply as a complete independent being, and so she did, as a spinster.

In 1915 ______ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest against America's failure to join England in the First World War.

What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______ ,”that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.

When World War II broke out,______ began working for the Italian government, engaged in some radio broadcasts of anti- Semitism and pro- Fascism.

Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self- creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.

In 1849, Herman Melville published ______,a semi-autobiographical novel, con- cerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.

As a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,______ marks the climax of Mark Twain's literary activity.

Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream -of-consciousness”novels and the founder of ______.

With the publication of ______ , Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.

The American writer ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist In-truder in the Dust in 1950.

Hemingway's second big success is ______ , which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1920s, in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.

T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.

In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______” who demonstrated a particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in their society.

The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.

The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th century was______.

The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the three trilogies of ______.

After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernism EXCEPT ______.

The symbolic meaning of “Book” in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and the Book is ______.

Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a______ writer.

Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards ______, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.

“Byronic hero”is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.

Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.

Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.

For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”.

Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?

“Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ______.

The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's______.

As a representative of the Enlightenment,______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.

As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.

John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf.

The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT______.

In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.

The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by______.