It is Henry James_______and his literary essays that make him a fascinating case in the American literary history.

How in symbolism reflected in Moby Dick, the first American prose epic by Herman Melville?

Briefly discus the difference between Dickens' early works and later works.

Discuss the local color reflected in Mark Twain" s novels.

What significant contribution has Wordsworth made to English poetry?

What is your comment on The Waste Land by Eliot in terms of the themes and the mood?

How does Hawthorne prove himself to be one of the best symbolists?

And now Carrie had attained that which in the beginning seemed life's object, or, at least, such fraction of it as human beings ever attain of their original desires... Applause there was, and publicity once far off, essential things, but now grown trivial and indifferent. Beauty also --- her type of loveliness and yet she was lonely.[In her rocking chair she a when not otherwise engaged --- singing and dreaming.]

Questions:

A.What is the title of the novel from which the excerpt is taken?

Who is the author?

B.What is the core of American values according to the author?

C.What does the underlined sentence mean?

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,e

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same.

Questions:

A.What is the tide of the poem from which the stanza is taken? Who is the author?

B.What does " it was grassy and wanted wear" in tbhe third line mean?

C.What does the poet want to tell the reader in this meditative poem?

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds Of the surrounding families ,that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

Questions:

A.What is the title of the novel from which the excerpt is taken?

Who is the author?

B.What is the author s main literary concern?

C.What is the style of this novel?

So please my lord the Duke and all the court,

To quit the fine for one half of his goods;

I am content, s0 he will let me have

The other half in use, to render it

Upon bis death unto the gentleman

That lately stole his daughter ---

Two things provided more: that, for this favor,

He presently become a Christian;

Questions:

A.What is the title of the play from which the excerpt is taken? Who is the author?

B.What does "I" and "he" respectively refer to in the third line?

C.What is your comment on this play?