信阳师范学院美国文学作品选读

出自:信阳师范学院美国文学作品选读

10 [论述题,10分] How did the Lost Generation come into being in the literary history of the United States? Who were the leading figures of this literary movement?

9 [论述题,10分] What does Wordsworth mean when he said "All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility"?

8 [论述题,10分] Discuss the artistic features of Shelley.s poems.

7 [论述题,10分] Discuss the four periods of William Shakespeare.s dramatic career, the characteristics of his characters, plot and language.

6 [论述题,10分] Discuss the change and growth of Robinson Crusoe and the ch aracteristics of him.

5 [论述题,10分] Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?

4 [论述题,10分] Please elaborate Wordsworth’s theory of poetry, taking examples from the poems you have learned to support your ideas.

3 [论述题,10分] Why is Hardy regarded as a naturalistic writer in English literature? Discuss in relation to his novels you know.

2 [论述题,10分] Make a comment on the character of Jane Eyre, the heroine of the novel by Charlotte Bronte.

1 [论述题,10分] "A Modest Proposal" is a satire written by Swift and it is generally taken as a perfect model of satire. Gulliver.s Travels is Swift.s masterpiece. Based on them, discuss why Swift is a master satirist.

30 [简答题,3.3分] List three characters in Tess.

29 [简答题,3.3分] List three works of James Joyce

28 [简答题,3.3分] who are the three Bronte sisters?

27 [简答题,3.3分] List three characters of Tom Jones.

26 [简答题,3.3分] what is Bacon.s Of Studies about?

25 [简答题,3.3分] What is the belief of the neoclassicists about literature?

24 [简答题,3.3分] Elizabeth Bennet is the heroine of Pride and Prejucide. What kind of character do you think Elizabeth Bennet is?

What is the most famous theme in Henry James.s fiction? What distinguishes him from other realist writers such as Mark Twain and W. D. Howells?

22 [简答题,3.3分] The white whale, Moby Dick is endowed with symbolic meaning. What do you think it symbolizes

21 [简答题,3.3分] Do you know something about "Yoknapatawpha County?" What are the characteristics of Faulkner.s fiction?

20 [简答题,3.3分] Briefly state Mark Twain’ s magic power with language in his novels.

19 [简答题,3.3分] What are the factors that gave rise to American naturalism?

18 [简答题,3.3分] Briefly introduce Blake’ s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

17 [简答题,3.3分] Working through the tradition of a Christian humanism, Milton wrote Paradise Lost, intending to expose the ways of Satan and to “justify the ways of God to men. ” What is Milton’ s fundamental concern in Paradise Lost?

16 [简答题,3.3分] What makes Sheridan the only important English dramatist of the 18th century?

15 [简答题,3.3分] What are the characteristics of Byron.s works?

14 [简答题,3.3分] What are the "Wessex novels" of Thomas Hardy?

13 [简答题,3.3分] What are the features of Charles Dickens. novels?

12 [简答题,3.3分] What is the language style of Mark Twain?

11 [简答题,3.3分] Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?

10 [简答题,3.3分] What is expressionism?

9 [简答题,3.3分] What are the main features of Robert Browning’s poetry?

8 [简答题,3.3分] What contributions did Geoffrey Chaucher make to English literature？

7 [简答题,3.3分] Please comment on Alexander Pope’s literary achievements.

6 [简答题,3.3分] Give the symbolic meanings of characters Gerald and Birkin in the novel Women in Love .

5 [简答题,3.3分] What is the difference between the easy conceits and the difficult conceits employed in John Donne’s poetry？

4 [简答题,3.3分] Comment on Robert Lee Frost’s poetic style.

3 [简答题,3.3分] Comment on the characteristics of Romantic writers in English history.

2 [简答题,4.3分] It is said that B. Shaw’ s plays reflect the dramatist’s Fabianist idea. Give one example.

1 [简答题,3.3分] What’s the theme of Emily Bronte’ s Wuthering Heights?

Then where are our relatives? My father? Our family friends? You claim the rights of a mother: the right to call me fool and child; to speak to me as no woman in authority over me at college dare speak to me; to dictate my way of life; and to force on me the acquaintance of a brute whom anyone can see to be the most vicious sort of Lodon man about town. Before I give myself the trouble to resist such claims, I may as well find out whether they have any real existence. Questions: A. From which work is this quotation taken? B. Which character is speaking? C. What does this work expose?

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good forturen must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man many be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrouding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. Questions: A. Identify the author and the title from which the above passage is taken. B. What is this passage describing?

Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair; it is kept all the year long; it bearth the name of Vanity Fair because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity. As is the saying of the wise, .All that cometh is vanity.. Questions: A. Identify the author and the title of the book. B. Who are "they" in this excerpt? C. What type of writing is this book? D. What is the theme of this book?

"To be or not to be-- that is the question." Questions: A. Identify the author. B. From which work is the above sentence taken?

“Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ” Questions: A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem? B. What does the word “this” in the last line refer to? C. What idea do the quoted lines express?

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume. For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” A. Identify the author and the work. B. What are the two principal beliefs that the poet set forth in this poem?

“I like to see it lap the Miles— And lick the Valleys up— And stop to feed itself at Tanks— And then-prodigiosu step” A. Please give the name of the author. B. What idea does this poem express?

But it seemed that both his audacity and his respect were lost on Miss Daisy Miller. ‘I guess mother wouldn’t go—for you,’ she smiled. ‘And she ain’t much bent on going, anyway. She don’t like to ride round in the afternoon.’ After which she familiarly proceeded: ‘But did you really mean what you said just now—that you’d like to go up there?’ Most earnestly I meant it, Winterbourne declared. A. Identify the author and the work. B. Where are they going to visit？

“ ‘Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? So you think I am an automoton?—a machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?—You think wrong!—I have as much as you and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, or even of mortal flesh: — it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal —as we are!’” A. Identify the author and the work. B. Summarize the speaker’s meaning.

“The curfew tolls the knell o fparting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.” A. Scan the first line of the stanza. B. Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity.