自考英语本科《英美文学选读》教你投机取巧过英美文学[整理加强版]

自考英语本科《英美文学选读》教你投机取巧过英美文学[整理加强版]
自考英语本科《英美文学选读》教你投机取巧过英美文学[整理加强版]

美文学这门科目庞大之极,堪称英本自考之最。自己一个人看那么厚的一本书,不用说能不能看下来,能记住多少实在不好说!

我在复习的时候,总结了一些规律,与大家分享,望对你有用,帮你顺利通过!

1.题型分析:

一般来讲,肯定是这种类型:a.单项选择题(40道,40分) b.引文简析(无非就是问问作者是谁,出自哪个作品,主题意象什么的,4道,16分)c.简答题(4道,24分)d.论述题(无非就是分析加读后感,20分)

经验:你应该可以看出来了,重点当然是单选了,分数大,又好得分,实在不行还可以蒙。建议尽可能把书看一遍,但不要看作者生平,那肯定不会考。有个印象就可以了,不用去背,如果你汉语文学功底好,可以省去不少时间。

2.比例分析

据本人统计,历年来英美文学的国考试卷中英国文学占52%,美国文学占48%。(2003年4月例外,其中英国部分58%)其中,可以看出

单选题:前22题肯定为英国部分,其余为美国部分。

大题部分:基本上是一人一半,各占50%

经验:书上共652页,英国411页,美国241页。英国作家共38位,美国15位。其中,美国部分中,诗歌作品也比较少,比较好确认。结论:死学美国,顺带英国。

3.内容分析

历年命题的趋势逐渐由课文内容向选读作品转移,选读的比重越来越大。

经验:课文内容作到大体了解,但要特别重视作家艺术特色。选读部分加大力度,多注意书上的注释及选文大意和某些细节,尽量作到能用英语复述。实在不行,也至少作到能用汉语复述。

4.真题解析及预测

自学考试的一大特点就是重复率高,所以历年试题是必惫的复习材料,不可缺少。有人说:“一套真题等于3套模拟题!”这话绝对没错。所以要花大力气在上面。记得我考那回就有一道10分大题和前一年的一模一样。

注:马克吐温的《哈克贝里费恩历险记》的分析在2000~2002年中,连续考了三次。

经验:注意历年真题,尤其是去年的。去年的10分大题大致如下:

a.《傲慢与偏见》中的三种婚姻

b.《白鲸》选文作品复述几分析象征意义。

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4月14日]投机取巧教你过英美文学[压题篇]

本文是投机取巧过英美文学的最后一篇,收录北京市2004年4月10日英美文学考试的试题(除选择题外),是我在北京自考论坛处网友处所得,特此对提供帮助的朋友表示感谢。

二、1、Thomas Gray:Elegy in the Country Churchyard的第一段

2、Yeats的Down by the sallen garden,考的是他俩站在河边,那个女孩*在他肩头,他觉得自己年轻懵懂,而且泪流满面。

3、Emyly Bronte的Whuthering Heights里面Hethcliff在他lover临死之前的那段表现,还问了narrator 是谁

4、Emlily Dikinson的I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I died,问那个blue Buzz是什么意思

三、1、考的是Theodore Dreiser 的Sister Carrie. 问的是关于natrualism的概念.

2、Eliot的Love Song of J.Alfred Pru.K,考的是yellow frog那段,问两个yellow的出现表现什么?对全文所表达主题的作用。

3、Gulliver's Travels,就考了那段candidate在royal面前大为表现的那段,问了那个lilliput象征了什么

4、Faulkner的Rose for Emily,考的是对她家老房子和周围环境的描写那段,问Emily和South的关系,还有她们之间的关系象征了什么更深的东西。

四、1,用Marlowe和Shakespeare的作品为例,说明the spirit of R enaissance

2,引用了Pound的 The Station in Matro,就是什么人群中有apparition那两句,用此诗来解释imagism

编者注:

虽然4月18日的国考题不见得会一样,但考友们可以做个借鉴。依我的经验,一定会有重复的考题!

建议对策:

一.美国部分内容较少,我没记错的话,应该是15位作家,13首诗,1幕剧The Hairy Ape ,1篇散文Nature,9个小说节选。

1.先说小说。至少每一个节选你都要知道大意,和表达的主题(包括象征,隐喻,etc)。也就是说,选文你可以不看,但选文前的斜体介绍不能不看,那里集中着考点。记住的越多越好。

2.再说诗歌。美国部分的诗歌除了“easy”想不出别的来形容,原因是其口语风格。你所要做的,就是记住名字,然后把简介(就是诗歌前面的斜体内容)和书上的注释部分背下来。我敢说你诗歌部分(也就是第二题)基本OK了。

3.至于散文和戏剧,不用花大力气,两者的方法同小说部分。另:Nature你要注意新英格兰超验主义,和“The Transparent eyeball”。千万别去读《毛猿》,太乱,不易读懂。

4.关于如何对待课文内容,千万别看作者生平,肯定不考。建议略过生平,采取两遍的方法:第一遍先用笔画,画出你认为可能出题的地方,第二遍只看你画的地方,记住关键词。

还有,参照书后的大纲,大纲上提到的作品有限,如果时间紧,就只记住大纲提到的作品便可省去不少时间。

二.英国部分的方法同美国,但见于其内容太多,所以可以适用时间充裕的人。此处不再敖述。

就我对从1999~2003年国考题的分析看,大纲每一章后都有一个终结,包括一般了解,了解,掌握,应用等。最后一道20分的大题一般都是大纲的应用部分的内容,应给予高度重视。

首先我想与大家谈论一下参考书,我看见网上有人询问是否有什么好的参考书。我总共买了二本参考书,用处不大,浪费时间不少。只有把课本彻底看透,你才能掌握主要脉络,才会产生PASS的信心。仔细对照,你可以看出参考书上无非也是从书上COPY过来,只能让你看一遍参考书,又看一遍书本。我能理解大家想偷机取巧的想法,参考书必定是比课本薄得多,看上去象精选集,但事实并非如此,实际考题说明一切。考题不会超大纲,答案自然都在书上。只不过来年考题会从越来越偏僻角落去选择,所以课本也就越发重要。我现在都能想象出题老师得意笑容,"我出的题难什么,都在书上"。

当我看完第一遍书时,其过程实在是艰涩痛苦,捏着厚厚书真觉得苦海无涯,望也望不到出头之日。但奇妙的感觉在后面,当我第二,三,四遍看完,当然到后面是以翻看形式了,书本捏在手上变得越来越薄了。我认为以课本为基础,在自己脑海中形成的超薄精选集才是正直实用有效的参考书,在网上是下载不到,书店里也买不到。你所需要做的是把这课本看懂,读透,翻烂。I don't want to say this is only choice, but it actually is, and an most direct and eff icient way. Dont f ind too much resources, which cant easy your job, but increase your burden.

我看见许多人说背不出,或怎样背。大家都是这条路上过来的难兄难弟,多半白天要上班,晚上要背书,有段时间我近似绝望,怀疑自己提早进入老年痴呆症,健忘症。我不断弄混名字,作品,时期,英美不分。就现在考题看来,题型已不是单纯浅显记忆题,而是在此基础上的综合理解题,在今年的部分选择题,简答题里都是这样。如果不掌握最基本的(纯粹背的),PASS是绝无希望。

我的方法是建立一个树枝结构。复习开始时面对的最大困惑是东西太多,无从下手,而且更糟是前背后忘记,忘得比背得快,简直是没天理,花下去的时间精力似乎打了水漂。当然要让每个作家都能象对Shakespeare一样一听就有个大概印象,没有充足广泛阅读量是无法做到的。既然太深一下子沉不到海底,我索性浮起来从面上抓,我的树枝结构应运而生。可以说书前的目录就是主树杆,每个时期是树枝,每个作家便是树叉,单是这样还是很抽像很难记,加上不同的"色彩形状的叶子",开始不用很多,节选作品,称号(e.g. the father of ..... or the Poet's Poet),相关术语(Whitman-free verse, Emerson-trascandentalism),正是这些"叶子"使树叉有其独特之处,成为记忆的载体。这样我一下子把英美文学浓缩成二张卡片,在回家上班路上忙里偷闲时看一下,记一下,背一下。嗨,各位,这真得很有效噢,在很短时间内,我可以做出60%的选择题了,并将茫然无序的思路理清。Though my tree is still in winter, "if winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"。这也许可作为根基吧,但其巩固是在这棵树枝繁叶茂的过程中,基础巩固与细节化是相辅相承的。然后我准备了一份小册子,一页一位作家,每页再加上作家主要作品,风格,特点,作品情节,语言,人物描写,功献,第一或最后本作品,最成功作品,最....,通过你不断从课本中汲取,你的树会茁壮成长,并且由重点到细节,从记忆,熟悉,理解整个过程基本附合考纲要求,完美状态是直至差不多等于课本知识的涵盖量(这是共产主义状态,说实在的我没达到,真是革命尚未成功,同志还需努力)。

英美文学是综合学科,要通过或考好,是需要日常对英美历史背景熟悉,对大量著作的阅读,研究体会的。死记硬背真的只是应付考试的,原始而无意义手段,而且对来年的考题是没办法应付的噢!

以下还有一些小窍门,希望有帮助:

1.先复习美国文学,后英国文学;

2.美国文学可先从现实主义阶段开始,英国文学可先从维多利亚阶段开始;

3.去年考过题还会再考;

4.诗中解释较多的话,找那些能反映主题的解释多背背;明年多半是课本没有的解释了,考你的对诗理解程度了,

5。对各阶段时期特征多花功夫复习;

6.明年的理解题,综合题,比较题必然多,例如:

1.二个阶段思想,风格比较,举例说明;

2.描述一个阶段思想,风格特点,举例说明;

3.比较二个同一,不同阶段诗人,剧作家,小说家,举其作品说明;

4.详细说明一个术语,一种写作方式,风格,主义如何运用,举代表人物,作品说明,(eg, this year question: What is Allegory concerned with its implying meaning?)

刁钻复杂的题人人都可猜,我并非想例出一点希奇古怪的题扰乱你们的思路。这次四月考试,我是充满信心拿高分,对每位作家或诗人我都仔细复习到了,但题目仍是出乎我意料之外,我觉得不公平是题型已不是去年直白而水平的出题方式,是一种纵向综合题型。我想提醒明年要参加考试的同学,决不要把每个作家或时期独立复习,如果可能的话,在对每位作家或时期有一定熟悉的程度,作一点纵向的比较,不但能加深理解,对你们明年考试决对有帮助,不,是贡献。

坦白的说,这次考试当天上午,我脑海种几次想到应看一下各个时期的异同点,这是我的薄弱环节,但我仍按常理将重点放在几位重要作家写作风格的复习上了。如果明年你是第一次考英美文学,那就别满足于对各位作家的了解,如果明年你又要参加考试,也许猜一点比今年更难的题目,才能应付自如。

英美文学常考作家

Emily Dickinson

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Henry James

Mark T wain

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thomas Hardy

Washington Irving

William Shakespeare

次常考作家

Alexander Pope

Charles Dickens

Daniel Defoe

Emily Bronte

Eugene O'Neill

Ezra Pound

Heminway

Jane Austen

John Keats

John Milton

Melville

Percy Bysshe Shelly

Robert Browning

Theodore Dreiser

Whitman

William Faulkner

William Wordsworth

一般作家

Charlotte Bronte

Emerson

Enlightenment

Francis Bacon

Henry Fielding

James Joyce

John Bunyan

Jonathan Swift

Robert Frost

Samuel Johnson

Samuel T aylor Coleridge

William Blake

在自考英语专业的各门课程中,英美文学选读是及格率较低的一门。不少考生感觉这门课程学习比较困难,要记忆和理解的知识很多,考生应该怎样学习这门课,怎样复习备考呢?学好这门课的关键是要注重学习教材中的文学知识和教材选文两方面内容。

教材中文学知识比较繁杂,考生学习时不仅要强化记忆,更要注意运用正确有效的学习方法。首先考生应该学会把厚书读薄,然后再把它变厚。在学习英美文学选读教材时,考生应能做到把英国和美国文学各个时期的文学流派、代表作家和代表作品提纲挈领地列出来。如果在脑海里对英国、美国文学的大致脉络形成清晰印象,那就可以说把厚厚的教材读薄了。以英国维多利亚时期的文学为例。考生不仅应知道这个时期是以批判现实主义小说为主流,还要了解这种小说有社会原因、哲学基础和美学基础。维多利亚时期是英国发展史上最光辉的一页,但繁荣的表面掩藏了不少黑暗现实。这也是功利主义盛行的时代,人们唯利是图,不惜一切手段敛财贪利,造成急剧的社会贫富分化。批判现实主义应运而生,各个主要的现实主义作家在作品里都从不同的角度将针砭时弊的锋芒直接对准了社会不公,各自运用不同的手法挖掘出不同的主题。考生学习这部分内容时,建议先看主流派,了解同一流派中所有作家的共性,然后再具体把握各个作家的写作特点。可见,学习教材内容时,只把教材由厚读薄是远远不够的,还应该把它由薄再变厚。考生不但要能了解每个时期、每个文学流派的历史文化背景,以及该时期该流派文学的主张和特点,还要了解每个重要作家的生平、在文学上的地位和贡献、他或她的代表作品的主要内容、艺术特色等。在把书变薄和变厚的过程中,自然而然地,考生对基本知识的掌握就变充分了。从历年考试来看,考生回答有关流派、思潮以及作家风格特点的选择题时,有较高的失分率,这是非常可惜的。考生在备考时要先从宏观的角度掌握文学的知识,再从细微处着手仔细研究比较重要的作家。学习文学没有捷径,这部分内容也没有太多的难点,考生只要认真学习教材内容,是可以有好的学习效果的。

学习这些基本知识时,考生应注意加强记忆,包括一些具体的作家作品的名字,如果应考时写错而失分就很可惜。例如,在历年考试时,有的考生把美国作家Fitzgerald写成Fisgerald,把他的小说The Great Gatsby写成Gatsby;有的考生错误地把The Great Gatsby的作者回答成James Joyce或别的毫不相干的作家;有的考生把T·S·Eliot和George·Eliot的作品以及作品中的人物混淆起来;有的考生对考试题目中引文的作者不甚明了,把英国维多利亚时期小说家George·Eliot的Mid-dlemarch写成T·S·Eliot.还有的考生能答出引文的作家和作品名,但作品中的人物名字不会写或写错。甚至有的考生把作家作品的国别和所属年代和流派混淆起来。这些在历年考试中出现的错误,其实是记忆不到位所致,这种失分很可惜。建议考生将文学流派、代表作家生平、文学上的地位和贡献、主要代表作特点和艺术特色、国别、年代等,分类归纳或列表的形式,以便形成清晰的记忆,还可通过对照加深记忆。考生学习这些知识时,加深记忆注重理解的同时,还要有一定的题型意识,例如,历年就有题目要求回答狄更斯的艺术特色、福克纳在主题、人物塑造、语言和风格方面对美国文学的贡献,很多考生答题时都是先叙述作家的生平,然后列出他们的代表作,最后说说他们在文学史上的地位或重要性,至于狄更斯的艺术特色或福克纳作品的主题、人物塑造、语言和风格,只有只言片语甚或根本没有提及。这样答题,失分也再所难免。考生在复习时要按这种题型思路归纳不同作家的艺术特色,或某位作家在主题、人物塑造、语言风格等方面的特点和贡献。关于某位作家的相关知识比较多,比如生平、流派、贡献、作品特点等,考生复习时要全面掌握,但记忆时要保持思路清晰。

对教材选文,考生应仔细阅读并尽力理解。有些考生平时不注意认真学习,不努力去阅读并理解选文,在考试前把时间和精力用在看几本参考书或做几套模拟题上,希望凭此通过考试。实践证明,这样做的效果并不好,很多考生都因此而影响了成绩。与一般的基础课程不同,英美文学选读这门课不仅强调考生应该掌握一些文学方面的基础知识,更重视考核考生在文学方面的素养,它要求考生具有一定的阅读和理解英美文学原著的能力,并学会一些文学分析的技巧。除了学习各时期各流派的文学特点和了解代表作家外,考生应该仔细阅读教材选出的每一位作家代表作的选文,并着重理解一些名篇名段。学习中,考生应尽早发现阅读和理解方面的困难,求助老师或一些参考书早日解决。

考生在平时复习备考时,是否认真研读过选文,在考试时会有直接检验。有的考生平时只读关于作家和文学流派的介绍,不读或不理解教材中节选的引文,因此而失分。这门课的试卷第二和第三题是直接从教材里选出一些作品的引文,要求考生解答对作家的名字和出处以及对引文的理解。如果考生复习时没有认真阅读选文,往往就不知道引文出自何处,或只是随便答写少数几个众所周知的名字,结果出现了这样的现象,如果是诗歌的引文,答案往往集中在著名的诗人如Shelly,K eats,Robert Frost,Whi tman;如果是小说的引文,答案往往是Jane Austin,James Joyce,Charles Dickens,Hemingway,Faulkner,Hawthome等。虽然这些有名的作家的作品经常在考题中出现,但由于考生压根没读过或没理解引文,大部分时候是张冠李戴,所给出的答案与引文真正的小说家在年代、流派、风格等方面相去甚远。如果是回答关于引文的理解,一些考生也只能根据自己的猜测答题。

虽然是看书,但是技巧性很强的。有一本张伯香的辅导一定要看,非常好,大家要是买不到可以和我联系,我有电子版。确实不错,我因为时间有限只看了中文版,英文版也买了,没来得及看,有时间一定好好看看。我是快速浏览,这本中文版基本看了3便,因为快,所以第一遍基本没印象。再就是课本每章概述一定要好好看,千万不能马虎,这次考试说实在的,我感觉选择题我至少要错10多道,就是因为那部分看的不仔细,但是题出了很多。还有不要忽视重点,我本来都可以考80多分呢,哈哈,因为觉得莎士比亚太重点,应该不会考,结果我都没怎么看,倒数第二题我基本都没得分,如果看了,轻松可以拿到10分。还有最后就是历年模拟试卷,一定要认真做,至少一遍,大题要背下来。今年最后一道我就是在车上等着到点考试是又温故了一遍,应该拿到了10分。

英美文学不难,我头一回考试出来,很自信,因为我头一回认真学习了自考科目,哈哈。刚才翻了翻成绩单,语法78,词汇学76,翻译78,这些我都可以通过,不看书,可是英美文学不行,终于我的自考生涯结束了,是我一个月的努力得到的。同时又增强了我学习的勇气和动力,下一步我要考翻译证了,哈哈,31了,我相信我自己,我可以通过8年前望而生畏的自考科目,证明我还是可以进步的。

我复习这门功课花了大概一个星期的时间。我总共花了一个月的时间来复习这四门,所以最多安排一个星期的时间来复习文选。我在巴士这里下了不少资料,全部打印了出来,一共有大概10多份,分为两大类:真题和复习笔记。我复习了三轮:第一轮,看中文参考书,然后看英文版。看过中文参考书之后整体上有个把握了再看英文版会快很多,其间把重点做标记。第二轮:看打印的笔记资料,提炼重点。结合课本抓住关键部分。第三轮:做真题。这一步是最最关键的,自考历年考题重复率很高,如果把近6、7年的真题的选择题全都做一次,你会发现原题就有好几道,其他的换汤不换药的题目也大有其在,如果复习时间不是很充足的话那一定要把前几年的真题仔细过几遍,理解透彻。

我印象很深刻就是考惠特曼的写作风格的从2000年到2006年的几乎年年都有,还有考《小伙子布朗》的性格分析的就有重复的原题,优柔寡断(inacti v ity)这个选项好像连顺序都没有变。像今年的一道阅读理解题第三小题就是2003年的原题,考的是庞德的A PAT,这样的分如果都丢了的话真的很可惜的。

我回想了一下这次的考题,从中大家就可以发现真题的重要性。

一、选择题

我印象很深刻就是考惠特曼的写作风格的从2000年到2006年的几乎年年都有,还有考《小伙子布朗》的性格分析的就有重复的原题,优柔寡断(inactivity)这个选项好像连顺序都没有变。今年的考题的最后一道是考india camp选自哪里,这个在前些年的真题中多次出现过,选自in our time。

二、阅读理解

今年的阅读理解题两篇诗歌两篇小说

第一小题是华兹沃兹的的一首诗

第二题是弥都玛诗镇

第三小题就是2003年的原题,考的是庞德的A PAT

第四题,很遗憾我自己也没有做出来。

三、简答题

第一道考的是莎士比亚的四大悲剧,四大悲剧主人公的共同特征,每个主人公的弱点。

第四道是亨利詹姆斯的写作风格主旨,跟马克吐温的写作风格的区别。

第二三道不是太记得了。

四、分析题

一是结合选读分析简爱的性格特征,二是结合《给艾米丽的玫瑰》分析福克勒是怎么这篇文章里运用象征主义手法。

我的资料都上传在这个帖子里https://www.360docs.net/doc/a218047104.html,/thread-12912.html

有需要的同学在这里就可以下到

再给个小建议:

看这些资料的顺序,我觉得比较合适的是这样的

1.要点中英文对照

2.英国文学与美国的重点

3.literature

4.英美文学背诵精华篇

考前浏览一下微缩版和常考作家

有时间的考生可以看下作家图片,图文结合印象更深

如果时间很紧的话那就只看真题就可以了

资料在巴士里的资料汇总就可以下载

我就不重复了

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我在广外读自考本科,英美文学没开课时,

我用了不到半个月自学的,背了背也就过了.

个人的一点看法希望对大家有所帮助!

1.出发点是书内容太多,要学会看懂后,用自己的英语(那怕是最简单的英文)答题.

不要死背书,我自己是背不下来.

2.买本有中文翻译的练习册,外边大把.没事就当故事书看,把作者,及相关事件,相关作品看熟,背英文的背不下来,中文的看熟总没问题吧.

3. 我个人,是将下边的表格附件背得顺便你说那一个,我都张嘴就来.

例:英国的有几个时期,每个时期多少个作家,有顺序的,每个作家什么作品. 美国的-- 我上厕所几分钟,都可以背一遍.

4.用这个表格的空白部分,总结每个作者的,特点(写作和被描述的),一格格的对应, 同时,对每个时期总结. 因为如果你答不出一个作者的特点,只要记得她或他在

那个时期,那个时期的特点,代表它包括的作家.

5.对英美时期,进行比较,加深总结归纳.

以上都可以用中文完成,之后背一些要用的词汇,很少的不超过二十个,

再用自己的英文说清楚,就可以了.

这是广外知名老师的PPT的WORD版,

我们上课就用这个,感觉比较其它的简洁,

讲得更精炼,对考试更有效,内容也没那么多.

我有PPT的,不过太大了,我不知道如何上传,

WORD版内容一样,希望对大家有帮助,

你们的考试都是他们批卷,

我知道的几个原则,

1.答题作者人名,可以差一个两个这母,只要大体相同.

2.用自己的话答题,不用原文,没有问题,只要成句子通顺,不要是单词.

3.背大题的内容要答点,答不出来,就答那一时期的也给部分数.

4.不要空,都知道自考不容易,老师们都会尽量找点分给你,空了没办法.

5.实在不会,从前的选择题看一下,有时会被用来答后边大题.

例,我考试时,前边的选择题,是下列那个不是四大悲剧,单选题.

后边的大题是四大悲剧是什么,哈哈,起码你能答出来三个,

而且有直接的英文抄.

想到这了,希望有帮助,认识BUS里的朋友,有动力,希望一起进步,实现愿望!!

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英语专业-英美文学试卷及答案-期末

英语专业-英美文学试卷及答案-期末

英美文学试卷A 共9页第 I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1’=10’) 1. ( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well as the founder of English realism. His masterpiece The Canterbury tales contains 26 stories. 2. ( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama. 3. ( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urban life. 4. ( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influences that brought about the English Romantic Movement. 5. ( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for life and love. Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around. 6. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are Thomas Hardy, John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw. 7. ( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”. 8. ( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature. 9. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and American consciousness.

英美文学重点整理

What’s symbolism? 1)Symbolism is a movement in literature and the visual arts that originated in France in the late 19th century. In literature, symbolism was an aesthetic movement that encouraged writers to express their ideas, feelings, and values by means of symbols or suggestions rather than by direct statements. Hawthorne and Melville are masters of symbolism in America in the 19th century. 2)举例。

48. “Young Goodman Brown ”is one of Hawthorne ’s most profound tales. What is the allegorical meaning of Brown, the protagonist? What does Hawthorne set out to prove in this tale? How does Melville comment on Hawthorne ’s manner of concerning with guilt and evil?

**ELIZABETH **4. A comparison of the three giants: William Dean Howells; Mark Twain; and Henry James They are the three dominant figures of the realistic period. The forerunner of American Realism is Howells. Though the three writers wrote more or less at the same time, they differed in their understanding of the “truth.”While Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life”of the Americans, Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world”of man. Though Twain and Howells both shared the same concern in presenting the truth of the American society, they had each of them different emphasis. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way they lived, while Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. This particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism,”a unique variation (变体) of American literary realism.

英美文学知识点总结(适用于英语专八)

Old English Literature 古英语文学 (450-1066年) Beowulf (贝奥武甫)---The first English national epic 中世纪英语文学(1066-1500) Geoffrey Chaucer(乔叟,c. 1343–1400) was an English poet. He is remembered for his The Canterbury Tales《坎特伯雷故事集》, called the father of English litera ture―英国文学之父‖William Langland (朗格兰,1330?-1400?),the author of the 14th-century English long narrative poem Piers Plowman《农夫皮尔斯》. 文艺复兴(16-17世纪) William Shakespeare (莎士比亚,1564-1616), English poet and playwright, his surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems Venus and Adonis 《维拉斯和阿多尼斯》The Rape of Lucrece.《鲁克丽丝受辱记》 Shakespeare‘s greatest works: greatest tragedies are King Lear 《李尔王》,Macbeth《麦克白》,Hamlet《哈姆雷特》, Othello 《奥赛罗》,Romeo and Juliet 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》 grea t comedies: A Midsumme r Night‘s Dream《仲夏夜之梦》,As You Like It 《皆大欢喜》,The Merchant of Venice 《威尼斯商人》, Twelfth Night 《第十二夜》 great historical plays: Richard III 《理查三世》,Henry IV 《亨利四世》, Henry V 《亨利五世》, Henry VII 《亨利八世》 John Milton (弥尔顿, 1608-1674)was an English poet and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost《失乐园》, Paradise Regained《复乐园》Samson 《力士参孙》. 18世纪文学和新古典主义 Alexander Pope (浦柏,1688-1744 ) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century, best known for his satirical epigram 讽刺隽语and heroic couplet英雄双韵体.His major works include mock epic satirical poem An Essay on Man 《人论》and An Essay on Criticism 《论批评》 Daniel Defoe ( 笛福,1660—1731)was an English writer who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe《鲁滨逊漂流记》, spokesman for middle-class people Henry Fielding (菲尔丁, 1707 ---1754) ,an English novelist known for his novel:The History of Tom Jones. Jonathan Swift (斯威夫特,1667-1745), was an Anglo-Irish novelist, satirist. He is remembered for novel such as Gulliver‘s Travels《格列佛游记》. Richard Sheridan ( 谢立丹,1751—1816), Irish playwright ,known for his satirical play School of Scandal(造谣学校). He was a represntative writer of Comedies of Manners. Laurence Sterne (斯特恩,1713—1768 ), an English novelist. He is best known for his novel Tristram Shandy (《商第传》). Oliver Goldsmith (哥尔德斯密斯,1728-1774)English novelist, known for his novel Vicar of Wakefield (《威克菲尔德牧师传记》) Thomas Gray (托马斯?格雷1716—1771 ),an English poet, author of Elegy Written in a

英美文学欣赏考题整理及答案

Part One:English Poetry 1.William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 ?Why does the poet compare `thee` to a summer?s day? And who could `thee` be? Because summer?s day and thee both represent beauty . thee could be beauty, love. ?What picture have you got of English summer, and could you explain why? Warm, beautiful, sunshine. Because summer is the best season of a year ,the most beautiful season. It is like our May. ?How does the poet answer the question he puts forth in the first line? Thee is more beautiful than summer. ?What makes the poet think that “thou” can be more fair than summer and immortal? Because humanism is more eternal than summer and immortal. ?What figures of speech are used in this poem? Simile, metaphor, personification, oxymoron and so on . ?What is the theme of the poem? Love conquers all, Beauty lives on. 2. Thomas Nashe Spring ?Read the poem carefully, pay attention to those image- bearing words, and see how many images the poet created in the poem and what sense impressions you can get from those images. There is “Blooms each thing, maids dance in a ring, the pretty birds do sing, the palm and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk' and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay, The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, In every street these tunes bur ears do greet!” The “Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit,”impressions me most because of the harmony of the people?s relationship. ?Can you point out and explain the sound and their musical effect in the poem? In the Poem, each section has four lines, each line has ten syllables ( five tone step ) . In order to give the reader a spring breeze , streams , flowers , winding , Song Xin texture of sound and light flavor, Naixi greater uses English word S , z , f , V , R , L , and θconsonants means. In Naixi's poem, the use of phonological is also very harmonious, very smooth , very mellow. Section I of the poetry has Three pairs [ ing ] , section II of the poem has three pairs [ ei ] and the third quarter has three pairs [ i : ]. 3.John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning ?What is a “valediction” any way? Is the speaker in the poem about to die? Why does the speaker forbid mourning? No, it is about the lover s?separation. As the poem metaphors, the poet believed he and his wife?s love is sacred, he didn?t hope they cry when separation comes, let their love be stained by the ordinary and mundane.

英语专八英美文学常识汇总

英语专八英美文学常识汇总

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