13秋英美文学考试题型及复习范围

1.连线题（12 points）2.判断题(10 points）3.单项选择题（30 points）4.名词解释（16 points）5.材料分析题（32 points）名词解释：1. Allegory2. Sonnet3. Metaphysical poetry4. Neoclassicism5. Dramatic monologue6. Stream of consciousness7. Transcendentalism8. Local Colorism材料分析题：Passage 1Shall I compare thee to a summer‟s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer‟s lease hath all too short a date.Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature‟s changing course untrimmed;…Question: 1. What‟s the title of the poem? Who is the poet?2. What figures of speech are used in the poem? Use examples from the poem toshow it.3. How to appreciate the poem?Passage 2“… What though the field be lost?All is not lost: the unconquerable will,And courage never to submit or yield,And courage never to submit or yield,And what is else not to be overcome?That glory never shall his wrath or mightExtort from me. To bow and sue for graceWith suppliant knee, and deify his powerWho, from the terror of this arm so lateDoubted his empire, -- that were low indeed;…Question: 1. What‟s the title of the poem? Who is the poet?2. What is the theme of the poem?3. What are the images of the God, Adam & Eve, and Satan?Passage 3Then I say in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presentlysaw 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 beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where tis kept is lighter than vanity; and also, because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity. …Question: 1. From which book is the passage taken? Who is the author?2. The story is told in religious allegory, what is allegory?3. What‟s the significance of Vanity Fair?Passage 4I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o‟er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.…Question:1. W hat‟s the title of the poem? Who is the poet?2. What does the image of …cloud‟ suggest to you? What does the …golden daffodils‟represent?3. What has the poet meditated from what he has described? What is the theme?Passage 5"'What is his name?' 'Bingley. ''Is he married or single?''Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year, What a fine thing for our girls!''How so? How can it affect them?''My dear Mr. Bennet,' replied his wife, 'how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them. '"Question: 1. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this dialogue is taken.2. Who are making the dialogue?3. What does the dialogue tell us? What‟s the author‟s viewpoint about marriage?Passage 6“Standing on the bare ground, -- my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”Questions:1. Which work is this fragment taken from? Who‟s the author?2. What does “Universal Being” refer to?3. How to appreciate it?Passage 7I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.Questions:1. What‟s the title of the poem? From which collection of poetry is the poem taken from?2. What‟s the form of the poem?3. What‟s the symbolic meaning of the title of the collection? What‟s the theme of the poem? Passage 8We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess—in the Ring—We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—We passed the Setting Sun—…Questions:1. Identify the poem and the poet.2. What do “He” and “Carriage” refer to? What do “School”, “Fields of Gazing Grain”and “Setting Sun” symbolize?3. What‟s the poet‟s attitude towards Death? What is Death personified as?。