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1. ________is not a play written by Tennessee Williams.A. Cat on Hot Tin RoofB. The Glass MenagerieC. Death of a SalesmanD. A Streetcar Named Desire2. From ______ in the 1920s, Black(or African- American) literature started one upsurge after another.A. The Harlem RenaissanceB. The Beat MovementC. The Lost GenerationD. The worker’s movement3. Which of the following is not said about Ezra Pound?A. For he was politically, controversial and notorious for what he did in the wartime, his literary achievement and influence are somewhat reduced.B. His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the imagist movement.C. From his analysis of Chinese ideogram Pound learned to another his poetic language in concrete, perceptual reality and to organize images into large patterns through juxtaposition.D. His language is usually oblique yet marvelously compressed and his poetry is dense with personal literary and historical allusions.4. In A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway_______.A. emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and mentally and suggests that m an is doomed to be entrapped.B. Wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1930sC. Favored the idea of nature as an expression of either god’s design or his beneficence.D. Tells a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a French nurse5. Eugene O’neill is remembered for his tragic view of life, and most of his plays are about_____.A. The root, the truth of human desires and human frustrationsB. The moral nature of the modern mankindC. The relationship between man and nature as well as an and womanD. The inner contradiction of men before the red world6. Which of the following does not describe the strikingly successful artistic techniques in Catch-22？A. BurlesqueB. black humorC. anti-heroD.simple plot7. In his poems, Robert Frost combined traditional verse to forms with________.A. A simple spoken language the speech of New England farmersB. The pastoral language of the southern areaC. The difficult and highly ornamental languageD. Both A and B8. The literary characters of the America type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following Features except that they_______.A. Speak local dialectsB. are polite and elegant gentlemanC..are simple and crude farmersD. are noble savage (red and white) untainted by society9. The Raven was written in 1844 by_______.A. Philip FreneauB. Edgar Allan PoeC. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. Emily Dickinson10. The main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism and generally philosophically concerning______.A. The cold, rigid rationalism of UnitarianismB. The relationship between man and womenC. He development of Romanticism in AmericaD. Nature man and the universe11. ______ can be broadly defined as“the faithful representation of reality”or “verisimilitude”it includes the period of time from the civil war to the turn of the century.A. American Realism C.American SentimentalismB. American Transcendentalism D. American Romanticism12. Which of the following works is not be Ernest Hemingway?A. The Old Man and SeaB. A Farewell to ArmsC.Sound and FuryD. For whom to Bell Tolls13. Iceberg Theory is a writing principle proposed and closely followed by________.A. Jack LondonB. Sinclair LewisC. William FaulknerD. Ernest Hemingway14. Which of the following is said of the American Naturalism?A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the storiesB. Their characteristic setting is an isolated townC. Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations or inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forcesD. Humans should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing environmental conditions15. As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional style which is now called_______, that is_________.A. Hymn, poetry with chanting refrains.B. Blank verse, poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat.C. Free verse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.D. Ode, poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feeling.16. By the end of he 19th century, the realists had rejected the portrayal of idealized characters and event, instead, sought to______.A. Describe the wide range of American experienceB. Present the subtleties of human personalityC. Show animal nature of human beingsD. Both A and B17. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser set himself to project the _____American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is no one character whose status is not determined economically.A. PuritansB. MaterialisticC. PsychologicalD. Religions18. _______was poet in American modern period who was deeply influence by Eastern culture.A. T.S.EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Walt Whitman19. Which of the following is not a typical feature of Henry James’s writing style?A. Exquisite and elaborateB. minute and detailed descriptionsB. lengthy psychological analyses D. American colloquialism20. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ______was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. rationalismC. DevolutionD. Evolution21. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statement is not right?A. It is a love story and a story of sinB. It is a highly symbolic story as the author is a master of symbolismC. It is mainly about the moral emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main characters and the people in generalD. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel22. American Colonial literature is longer than any other literary and sermons, which started when the first settlers kept diaries and sermons and developed till________.A. The mid of 18th centuryB. early 17th centuryB. the end of 17th century D. the end of 18th century23. Which of the following works concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin?A. The WastelandB. The Scarlet LetterC. Leaves of GrassD. As I Lay Dying24. Whitman’s poem are characterized by all the following features except______.A. Strict poetic formB. a simple and conversationallanguageB. a free and natural rhythmic pattern D. an easy flow of feelings25.Which of the following is not written by Faulkner? A. The Sound and Fury B.A Rose for EmilyD. Tender is the night26._______ is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a students’classic.A. Allen SalingerB.E.E. CummingsC.J.D. Salinger D. Henry James27.Which one of the following statement is NOT True of William Faulkner?A. He is master of stream of consciousness narrativeB. His writing is often complex and difficult to understandC. He represents a new group pf Southern writers28.As a spokesman of the“Roaring 20s’”. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed ______.A. the problems of the human heart in conflict with itselfB. the psychological journey of the modern man and his helplessness in the modern worldC. the primitive struggle of individuals in the context of irresistible natural forcesD. the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of fulfillment29.In the beginning paragraph of chapter 3. The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald describes a big party by saying that “men and girls came and went like moths”. The author most likely indicates that______.A. there was a crowd of party goersB. these people were light -heartedC. these were crazy and ignorant charactersD. such life does not have red meaning30.______ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century “stream -of consciousness ”novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. Theodore DreiserB. William Faulkner D. His often depicts slum life in New York and ChicagoC. Light in AugustC. Henry JamesD. Mark Twain31.As the leader of the Harlem writers who created the Black Renaissance ______ as known as the“Poet Laureate of Harlem”.A. Ralph EllisonB. Langston HughesC. Richard WrightD. Alice Walker32.Hemingway once described Mark Twain’s novel ________ the one book from which“all modern American literature comes”.A. The Adventure of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventure of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg33.Romantics put emphasis on the following Expect _______.A. common senseB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism34.In the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called ________.A. the English RenaissanceB. the American RenaissanceC. the Second RenaissanceD. the Salem Renaissance35.The main theme of The Art of Fiction written by ______ clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life.A. Henry JamesB. Mark TwainC. Theodore DreiserD. Ernest Hemingway36.In the line“We slowly drove-He knew on haste/ And I had put away /My labor and my leisure too. /For his Civility -”, the word“civility”means______.A. abilityB. politenessC. kindnessD. pleasure37.Which one is not the characterized of modernism?A. Modernism in literature is characterized by experimentation, anti-realism, individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects.B. Modernism is greatly influenced by the two world wars.C. The work of Mary and Freud had mounted an assault against orthodox religious faith that lasted into the twentieth century.D. Modernists believe that human nature is kind38.Which of the following plays by O’Neill can be read autobiographicall y?A. The Hairy ApeB. The Emperor TonesC. The Iceman ComethD. Long Day’s Tourney Into Night39.The Civil War had transformed America from _____ to _____.A.an agrarian community, a society of freedom and equalityB.an agrarian community, an industrialized and commercialized societyC.an industrialized and commercialized society, a highly -developed societyD. a poor and backward society, an industrialized and commercial society40.Robert Frost combined traditional verse from -sonnet, rhyming couplet, blank verse -with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of ______ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.A. southernB. westernC. New EnglandD. New Hampshire41.The realistic period is referred to as“the Gilded Age”by______.42.Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating flections and paved the way to Modernism.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. NeoclassicismD. Enlightenment43.With Howells, James and Mark Twain active on the literary scene _______ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism44.Anna Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poem made such a stir in England that she become known as the“_______”who appeared in America.45.Apart from The Autobiography, Franklin is perhaps best remembered in print for his _______.A. The Way to WealthB. The Sketch BookC. The Biography Christopher ColumbusD. Poor Richard’s Almanac46.Moby Dick is usually considered ______.A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universeB. a spiritual exploration into man’s deep reality and psychologyC. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure47.The image of the famous“henpecked husband”is created by _______.D. both A and BTenth Muse Mark Twain A. B. Ninth Muse C. Best Muse D. First MuseA. B. Henry James C. Emily Dickinson D. Theodore DreiserA. Washington IrvingB. Fennimore CooperC. William Dean HowellsD.Mark Twain48.As a philosophical and literary moment, _______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. ModernismB. RationalismC. SentimentalismD. Transcendentalism。
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Ⅰ. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answer on the answer sheet.1.With classical culture and the（）humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.A. FrenchB. GermanC. ItalianD. Greek2.“Come live with me and be my love, / And we will all the pleasures prove / That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields.”The above lines are taken from Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, which derives from the（）tradition.A. pastoralB. heroicC. romanticD. realistic3.“Metaphysical conceit”is a strategy characteristic of John Donne’s poetry. It is（）.A. a confession that avoids questions of moral accountabilityB. the linking of images from very different ranges of experienceC. self-definition through images based on the four primal elementsD. the chaining of images representing solid and gaseous elements4.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 includes three stanzas according to the content with these last two lines as a（）, which completes the sense of the above lines.第 1 页A. preludeB. coupletC. epigraphD. exposition5.“Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants…”The above sentences are taken from（）.A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s TravelsC. Henry Fielding’s Tom JonesD. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe6.Jonathan Swift is a master satirist in English literature. His A T ale of a Tub is an attack on（）.A. the governmentB. greedC. the churchD. the abuse of power7.Chaucer was the first English writer to adopt heroic couplet in his writhing of poems. In the early 18th century, the chief proponent of the heroic couplet was（）.A. Alexander PopeB. William WordsworthC. Lord ByronD. Thomas Gray8.As a lexicographer, he distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary—A Dictionary of the English Language. What is his name?（）.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Samuel JohnsonC. Ben JonsonD. John Milton9.Which of the following statements about Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment Movement is true?（）.A. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 17th century.B. Neo-Classicism found its artistic models in the classical literature of the ancient Greek and Roman writers like Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, etc. and in the contemporary French writers such as V oltaire and Diderot.C. Neo-Classicism put the stress on the classical artistic ideals of order, logic, proportion, spontaneous emotion, and passion.D. Satire was much used in writing in the neo-classic works. English literature of this age produced a distinguished satirist Daniel Defoe.10.A poet asserted that poetry originated form “emotion recollected in tranquillity”. He maintained that the scenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could and should be made. Who is that poet?（）.第 2 页A. William BlakeB. Alfred Lord TennysonC. William WordsworthD. John Keats11.The composition of “Kubla Khan”by S.T. Coleridge was based on （）.A. a storyB. a dreamC. a dialogueD. an experience12.Romanticism was a literary trend prevailing in English during the period from 1798 to 1832. The Romantic writers （）.A. paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of manB. were discontent with the development of industrialism and capitalism, and presented the social evils minutely in their worksC. took pains to portray a world of harmony and balanceD. tended to glorify Rome and advocated rational Italian and French art as superior to the native traditions13.“Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright/ In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”(“The Tiger”by William Blake) The above lines（）.A. describe the tiger’s fierce eyes and forceful hands at nightB. express the poet’s curiosity for the skillful creation of the tigerC. express the poet’s surprise at the sight of the tiger’s well-proportioned bodyD. express the poet’s terror at the sight of the tiger in the forest at night14.Which of the following statements about Victorian literature is NOT true?（）A. Novels became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.B. Victorian novelists were angry with the inhuman social institutions, the decaying social morality, the widespread misery, poverty and injustice.C. Influenced by a particularly strict set of moral standards, Victorian writers like Oscar Wilde, advocated the old moderate, respectable life-style.D. Victorian prose writers joined forces with the critical realist novelists in exposing and criticizing the social reality.15.“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a （）.”This quotation in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice sets the tone of the novel.A. houseB. titleC. wifeD. fame第 3 页16.Tennyson’s poem Ulysses not only expresses the poet’s own determination and courage to brave the strug gle of life, but also reflects the restlessness and aspiration of the age. The poem is written in the form of（）.A. epicB. elegyC. dramatic monologueD. ode17.In Hardy’s W essex novels, there is an apparent（）touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A. realisticB. nostalgicC. romanticD. sentimental18.“If I’ve done wrong, I’m dying for it. It is enough! You left me too; but I won’t upbraid you! I forgive you. Forgive me!”These above lines are uttered by the heroine in（）.A. Shapespeare’s Romeo and JulietB. Emily Bront e ’s Wuthering HeightsC. Thomas Hardy’s T ess of the D’UrbervillesD. Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession19.Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and（）as its theoretical base.A. the theory of psycho-analysisB. Darwin’s evolutionary theoryC. the French symbolismD. Utilitarianism20.The beginning of “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”moves from a series of fairly concrete physical settings —a cityscape( the famous“patient etherized upon a table”)and several interiors (women’s arms in the lamplight, coffee spoons, fireplaces)—to a series of vague ocean images. It aims to convey（）.A. Prufrock’s emotional distance from the world as he comes to recognize his second-rate statusB. Prufrock’s eagerness to meet his dating loverC. Prufrock’s reluctance to meet his dating loverD. Prufrock’s excitement about the modern world21.“North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street ex cept at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boy free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.”The above passage is the first paragraph of Araby by James Joyce. It sets a(n)（）tone of the story.第 4 页A. optimisticB. activeC. gloomyD. serious22.“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, / And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: / Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, / And live alone in the bee-loud glade.”(“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”by Samuel Butler Yeats) The above lines present the state of a(n)（）life.A. quietB. lonelyC. ambitiousD. unstable23.In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Goodman Brown’s wife is（）, which also contains many symbolic meanings.A. RuthB. HesterC. FaithD. Mary24.The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of __________ to the outbreak of ___________.（）A. the 17th century…the American W ar of IndependenceB. the 18th century…the American Civil WarC. the 17th century…the American Civil WarD. the 18th century…the U.S.-Mexican W ar25.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough.”This is the shortest poem written by （）.A. E.E. CummingsB. T.S. EliotC. Ezra PoundD. Robert Frost26.Emily Dickinson’s poem“This is my letter to the World”expresses her（）about her communication with the outside world.A. anxietyB. eagernessC. curiosityD. optimistic outlook27.Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to（）.A. CynicismB. ModernismC. TranscendentalismD. Neo-Classicalism第 5 页28.In（）, William Faulkner illuminates the problem of black and white in the American Southern society as a close-knit destiny of blood brotherhood.A. Go Down, MosesB. Light in AugustC. The Marble FaunD. As I Lay Dying29.The theme of W ashington Irving’s Rip V an Winkle is（）.A. the conflict of human psycheB. the fight against racial discriminationC. the familial conflictD. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past30.Hemingway once described Mark Twain’s novel（）the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg31.As a genre, naturalism emphasized（）as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.A. theological doctrinesB. heredity and environmentC. education and hard workD. various opportunities and economic success32.（）is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century “stream-of-consciousness”novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. Theodore DreiserB. William FaulknerC. Henry JamesD. Mark Twain33.（）is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a students’ cla ssic.A. Allen GinsbergB. E.E. CummingsC. J.D. Salinger D. Henry James第 6 页34.Which one of the following statements in NOT true of Indian Camp by Hemingway?（）A. A young Indian woman had been trying to have her baby for two days.B. Nick’s father delivered this woman of a baby by Caesarian section, with a jack-knife and without anesthesia.C. Nick witnessed the violence of both birth and death in the Indian camp.D. This woman’s husband was murdered while she was in labor.35.（）is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Carl SandburgB. Edwin Arlington RobinsonC. William FaulknerD. F.Scott Fitzgerald36.Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the“interior of the heart”of man’s being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discussed（）A. love and hatredB. sin and evilC. frustration and self-denialD. balance and self-discipline37.Which of the following has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of Eugene O’Neill’s literary career and the coming of the age of American drama?（）A. The Hairy ApeB. Long Day’s Journey Into NightC. Desire Under the ElmsD. Lazarus Laughed38.In the last chapter of Sister Carrie, there is a description about Hurstwood, one of the protagonists of the novel,“Now he began leisurely to take off his clothes, but stopped first with his coat, and tucked it along the crack under the door. His vest he arranged in the same place.”Why did he do this? Because （）.A. he wanted to commit suicideB. he wanted to keep the room warmC. he didn’t want to be found by othersD. he wanted to enjoy the peace of mind39.In Moby-Dick, the white whale symbolizes（）for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A. natureB. human societyC. whaling industryD. truth第 7 页40.（）,disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used“i”instead of “I”in his poetry to show his protest against self-importance.A. Wallace StevensB. Ezra PoundC. E.E. CummingsD. William Carlos WilliamsⅡ. Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Reading the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,Thou mak’st thy knife keen; but no metal can,No, not the hangman’s axe, bear half the keennessOf thy sharp envy.”Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the play from which this part is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in this quoted passage?C. What idea does the passage express?42.“Whene’er I passed her; but who passed withoutMuch the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;Then all smiles stopped together.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the line “Then all smiles stopped together”imply?C. What kind of person do the lines indicate the speaker is?43.“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the word“sleep”mean?第 8 页C. What idea do the four lines express?44.“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.”(From Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”)Questions:A. Who does“myself”refer to ?B. How do you understand the line“I loafe and invite my soul?”C. What does“a spear of summer grass”symbolize?Ⅲ. Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.Edmund Spenser is one of the poets of English Renaissance. What are the qualities of his poetry?46.The Man of Property is the first novel of the Forsyte trilogies by Galsworthy. What is the theme and the tone of the novel?47.Eugene O’ Neill, America’s greatest playwright, was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when Expressionism was in full swing. What techniques did O’ Neill use in his expressionistic plays?48.Emerson’s book Nature established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of N ew England Transcendentalism. In this book Emerson discusses his idea of the Oversoul. How do you understand the Emersonian “Oversoul”?Ⅳ. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.Discuss Charles Dickens’s art of fiction: the setting, the character-portrayal, the language, etc, based on his novel Oliver Twist.第 9 页50.A Rose for Emily is one of Faulkner’s short stories. Comment on the character of the protagonist, Emily Grierson, and analyze how this character is depicted.第 10 页。
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THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT浪漫主义运动A Romanticism was an artistic and cultural movement that swept through Europe during the nineteenth century, reshaping everything from arts to politics to personal lifestyles as it flourished. Contrary to a commonly held misconception, Romanticism had little to do with 'romance' in the modern, popular sense of the word, and Romantics of the nineteenth century were generally not concerned with questions of infatuation and heartbreak. What interested them more was a different kind of Romantic vision, one that rebelled against caution and reason and praised the intensity and ferocity of wild landscapes and reckless human emotion.浪漫主义运动是一场在19世纪席卷整个欧洲的艺术文化运动，从艺术、政治再到个人生活方式，欧洲的一切无一不因其繁荣的发展而被重塑。
与我们平时理解的一般概念不同，浪漫主义与现如今我们通常所说的“浪漫”毫无关联，十九世纪的浪漫主义者们并不关心爱慕痴迷与心碎悲伤的问题，而是对一种全然不同的浪漫主义视角更感兴趣。
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英美文学选读自考题-7(总分100,考试时间90分钟)Ⅰ.Multiple ChoiceSelect from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blacking the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events. Which one of the following is not such an event?______A. The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture. B. England's domestic rest. C. New discovery in geography and astrology. D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.2. The Renaissance refers to the period between 14th and mid-17th centuries, which was under the reign of Queen ______ and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the real mainstream was ______.A. Victoria, poetry B. Elizabeth, drama C. Mary, novel D. James, drama3. In the second period, Shakespeare's style and approach became highly individualized. He wrote **edies. Which one doesn't belong to them?______A. Titus Andronicus. B. A Midsummer Night's Dream. C. The Merchant of Venice. D. Twelfth Night.4. William Shakespeare's greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, ______, King Lear and ______.A. Romeo and Juliet, Othello B. Othello, Macbeth C. The Tempest, Macbeth D. Othello, Henry IV5. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?______A. The speaker eulogizes the power of nature. B. The speaker satirizes human vanity. C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation. D. The speaker meditates on man's salvation.6. Milton once had an ambition to write an epic which England would "______".A. justify the ways of God to men B. lust all for men C. not willingly let die D. not let all lost7. ______ is not written by John Milton.A. Samson Agonistes B. Paradise Lost C. Paradise Regained D. Tamburlaine8. In terms of the Age of Enlightenment, **ment is not true?______A. The Age of Enlightenmentis also thought as the Age of Reason. B. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas. C. The enlighteners advocated universal education. D. John Milton is one of the representatives of the Enlightenment Movement.9. The modern English novel came into being in ______.A. the middle of the 17th century B. the 17th century C. the late 18th century D. the middle of the 18th century10. Daniel Defoe's novels mainly focus on ______.A. the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence B. the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security C. the struggle of the pirates for wealth D. the desire of the criminals for property11. ______ is a typical feature of Swift's writings.A. Elegant style B. Casual narration C. Bitter satire D. Complicated sentence structure12. Statement "______" is true in describing Romanticists.A. To Romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual's feeling and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momemtary these feelings and experiences are B. Romanticists are not patient people; they would leave before the revelation of the theme C. Poetry should present the apparent and tangible D. Romanticists take delight only in sound effect; the theme of a work is not their concern13. ______ is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world.A. Songs of Experience B. Songs of Innocence C. Song of Myself D. There Was a Child Went Forth14. Wordsworth thought that ______ is the only subject of literary interest.A. nation B. past experience C. common life D. nature15. P.B. Shelley's greatest political lyric is "______".A. Men of England B. An Essay on Criticism C. The Prelude D. A De fence of Poetry16. The major themes of Jane Austen's novels are the stories of ______.A. love and money B. money and social status C. social status and marriageD. love and marriage17. Robert Browning created the verse novel, transferring the thematic interest from mere narration of the story to revelation and study of characters' inner world and brought to the Victorian poetry ______.A. some psycho-analytical element B. some romantic element C. some realistic element D. some classical element18. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens' works lies in his ______.A. social criticism B. optimism C. character portrayal D. social setting19. ______ represents those middle-class working women who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being.A. Tess B. Jane Eyre C. Dorothea D. Elizabeth20. In Thomas Hardy's works, the conflict between the old and the modern is very pervasive. His attitude toward those traditional characters is ______.A. contempt B. sympathetic C. indifferent D. interested21. The trilogy of ______ novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte B. Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song C. D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love D. E.M. Foster's A Passage to India22. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th century was ______.A. W.B. Yeats B. Lady Gregory C. J.M. Synge D. John Galsworthy23. The **ments on George Bernard Shaw are true except ______.A. George Bernard Shaw's career as a dramatist began in 1892, when his first play Widowers' Houses was put on by the Independent Theater Society B. Shaw began his literary career by writing novels soon after his settling down in London C. Shaw's writings reflect **bination of realism and naturalism D. Shaw's plays can be termed as problems plays24. T.S. Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the Cathedral B. The Cocktail Party C. The Family Reunion D. The Waste Land25. ______ was one of the first novelists to introduce themes of psychology into his works. He believed that the healthy way of the individual's psychological development lay in the primacy of the sexual impulse.A. T.S. Eliot B. George Eliot C. James Joyce D. Ｄ.H. Lawrence26. The desire for an escape from society and a return to ______ became a permanent convention of American literature.A. history B. past C. nature D. simple life27. ______ tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a **munity are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.A. Young Goodman Brown B. Moby-Dick C. The Scarlet Letter D. Daisy Miller28. Hawthorne intended to ______ in The Scarlet Letter.A. tell a story of parental love B. tell a story of sin and bloody violence C. call the readers back to the plantation way of living D. reveal the human psyche after they sinned29. Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is "______," that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verse B. free rhythm C. balanced structure D. free verse30. Which of the **ments on the writings by Herman Melville is not true?______A. "Bartleby, the Scrivener" is a short story. B. "Benito Cereno" is a novella. C. The Confidence-Man has something to do with the sea and sailors. D. Moby-Dick is regarded as the first American proseepic.31. Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. Romanticism B. Rationalism C. Post-modernism D. Cynicism32. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and, especially, its sequence ______ proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.A. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B. Life on the Mississippi C. The Gilded Age D. Roughing It33. The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be masterpiece, which describes the life journey of an American ______ in a European cultural environment.A. Henry Adams's, widow B. William James's, girl C. Henry James's, girl D. Theodore Dreiser's, widow34. Which of the following works by Henry James is the most famous one during his last and major period?______A. The Turn of the Screw. B. The Middle Years. C. What Maisie Knows. D. The Portrait of A Lady.35. However, ______, the keynote of Daisy Miller's character, turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.A. experience B. sophistication C. worldliness D. innocence36. Which of the following is not a work of Emily Dickinson's? ______A. This is my letter to the World. B. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—. C. The Road Not Taken. D. I like to see it lap the Miles—.37. ______ is another human desire that Dreiser explored to considerable lengths in his novels to reveal the dark side of human nature.A. Sex B. Hunger C. Thirst D. Competition38. The defining formal characteristics of the modernistic works are ______.A. discontinuity and fragmentation B. contorted and obscure C. traditional and glorious D. prosperous and innovative39. Most critics have agreed that ______ is both an insider and an outsider of the Jazz Age with a double vision.A. F. Scott Fitzgerald B. Robert Lee Frost C. E.E. Cummings D. Ernest Hemingway40. "Grace under pressure" is a major feature of ______'s novels.A. William Faulkner B. Henry James C. Theodore Dreiser D. Ernest HemingwayⅡ.Reading ComprehensionRead the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. "Some men there are love not a gaping pig;/Some that are mad if they behold a cat;/And others, when the bagpipe sings i' th, nose,/Cannot contain their urine; for affection,/Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood/Of what it likes or loathes."Questions:A. Identify the author and the work.B. Who is the speaker of the quoted passage?C. What idea does the quotation express?2. "Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;/Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!"Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What is the "Wild Spirit"?C. What does the "Wild Spirit" destroy and preserve?3. "I celebrate myself, and sing myself,/And what I assume you shall assume,/For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you./I loafe and invite my soul,/I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass." (from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself") Questions:A. Whom does "myself" refer to?B. How do you understand the line "I loafe and invite my soul"?C. What does "a spear of summer grass" indicate?4. "I shall be telling this with a sigh/Somewhere ages and ages hence./Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—/ I took the one less travelled by,/And that has made all the difference."Questions:A. Who is the author of this poem?B. Identify the title of the short poem from which this part is taken.C. In one or two sentences, interpret the implied meaning of the last two lines.Ⅲ.Questions and AnswersGive a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. According to the neoclassicists, what are the standards for literature during the neoclassical period?2. What are the features of Charles Dickens' novels?3. What is the background of American Romanticism?4. What are the similarities and differences between the three literary giants Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James, in terms of their literary orientation?Ⅳ.Topic DiscussionWrite no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. Make a **ment on John Milton's literary achievements.2. Based on Hawthorne's work The Scarlet Letter, discuss the characters of his writings.。
英国文学 整理
Term Definition：Alliteration（押头韵）: Alliteration is the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby words. The term is usually applied only to consonants, and only when the recurrent sound begins a word or a stressed syllable within a word.Arthurian legend（亚瑟王传奇）: It is a group of tales (in several languages) that developed in the Middle Ages concerning Arthur L, semi-historical king of the Britons and his knights. The legend is a complex weaving of ancient Celtic mythology with later traditions around a core of possible historical authenticity.Sonnet（十四行诗）: A lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of fourteen iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme. There are two major patterns of rhyme in sonnets written in the English language:( 1) The Italian or Petrarchan sonnet (named after the fourteenth century Italian poet Petrarch) falls into two main parts: an octave(eight lines) rhyming abbaabba followed by a sestet (six lines) rhyming cdecde or some variant, such as cdccdc .(2) the English sonnet, or else the Shakespearean sonnet. This sonnet falls into three quatrains and a concluding couplet: abab cdcd efef gg. There was one notable variant, the Spenserian sonnet, in which Edmund Spenser linked each quatrain to the next by a continuing rhyme: abab bcbc cdcd ee.Conceit（夸张）: From the Italian concetto (meaning idea or concept), it refers to an unusually far-fetched or elaborate metaphor or simile presenting a surprisingly apt parallel between two apparently dissimilar things or feelings. Poetic conceits are prominent in Elizabethan love sonnets and metaphysical poetry. Conceits often employ the devices of hyperbole, paradox and oxymoron.Neoclassicism（新古典主义）: A style of Western literature that flourished from the mid-seventeenth century until the end of the eighteenth century and the rise of Romanticism. The neoclassicists looked to the great classical writers for inspiration and guidance. They believed that literature should both instruct and delight, and the proper subject of art was humanity. Neoclassicism stressed rules, reason, harmony, balance, restraint, decorum, order, serenity, realism, and form—above all, an appeal to the intellect rather than emotion. The Restoration in 1660 marked the beginning of the Neoclassical Period in England, whose writers included John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, etc.Romance（传奇小说）: It is a literary genre popular in the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century), dealing, in verse or prose, with legendary, supernatural, or amorous subjects and characters. Popular subjects for romances included the Macedonian King Alexander the Great, King Arthur of Britain and the Knights of the Round Table, and the Frankish Emperor Charlemagne.Renaissance（文艺复兴）: Renaissance ("rebirth") is the name commonly applied to the period of European history following the Middle Ages. The development came late to England in thesixteenth century, and did not have its flowering until the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. It also has been described as the birth of the modem world out of the ashes of the Dark Ages. Soliloquy（独白）: Soliloquy is the act of talking to oneself, whether silently or aloud. In drama it denotes the convention by which a character, alone on the stage, utters his or her thoughts aloud.Metaphysical poetry（玄学派诗歌）: A term that can be applied to any poetry that deals with philosophical or spiritual matters but that is generally limited to works written by a specific group of 17th century poets who wrote in the manner of the poet John Donne. The metaphysical poets are linked by style and modes of poetic organization. Common elements include the following: (1) an analytical approach to subject matter; (2) colloquial language; (3) rhythmic patterns that are often rough or irregular, and (4) the metaphysical conceit, a figurative device used to capture thought and emotion as accurately as possible.Graveyard school of poetry（墓园派诗歌）: It refers to a group of 18 century English poets who emphasized subjectivity, mystery, and melancholy. Death, mortality (immortality), and gloom were frequent subjects or elements of their meditative poems, which were often actually set in graveyards. Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is the most famous example.In the year 1066, the Normans defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the battle of HastingsIn the 14th century, the two most important writers are Chaucer and Langland.Today Chaucer is acclaimed not only as “the father of English Poetry” but also as “the father of English fiction”. His masterpiece is The Canterbury TalesThe fifteenth century has been described as the barren age in English literature. But it is the spring tide of English balladsIn the 15th century, there is only one important prose writer whose name is Thomas Malory He wrote an important work called Morte D’Arthur.“the Canterbury Tales” contain in fact a general Prologue and only 24 tales, of which two are left unfinished.The Prologue provides a framewor k for the tales in “the Canterbury Tales” , and it comprises a group of vivid pictures of various medieval figures.“the Canterbury Tales” is Chaucer’s greatest work and written for the greater part in heroic couplets.the name of the “jolly innkeeper” in “ the Canterbury Tales” is Harry Baily, who proposes that each pilgrim of the 32 should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two more on the way back.“the Canterbury Tales” opens with a general Prologue where we are told of a company of polgrims that gathered at Tabard Inn in Southwark, a suburb of London.The Pilgrims in “the Canterbury Tales” are on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket at a place named Canterbury.Chaucer’s work “The Canterbury Tales” gives us a picture of th e condition of English life of his day, such as its work and play, its deeds and dreams , its fun and sympathy.The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up of feudal relations and the establishing of the foundations of capitalism.Thom as More wrote his famous prose work “Utopia”.In Elizabeth Period, Francis Bacon wrote more than fifty excellent essays, which made him one of the best essayists in English literature.Edmund Spencer is often referred to as “the poet’s poet”.Spencer is generally regarded as the greatest nondramatic poet of the Elizabethan Age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece “The Faerie Queene”.“When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes” is the beginning line of a sonnet written by William Shakespeare.In the Elizabethan Age, William Shakespeare the greatest playwright of England.In Elizabethan Period, Francis Bacon wrote many excellent essays, such as “Of Studies”. Edmund Spencer wrote the masterpiece “The Faerie Queene”.“Hamlet”, “Othello”, “King Lear”, and “Macbeth”are generally regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies.Christopher Marlowe was the most gifted of the university wits. He Produced in all six plays and several poems.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” is one of William Shakespeare’s best known sonnets.“The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus” is one of Christopher Marlowe’s best plays.“Of Youth and Age” is one of the essays written by Francis Bacon.In 1642, civil war broke out in England, the royalists were defeated by the parliament army led by Oliver Cromwell. In 1649, Charles I was sentenced to death, and England was declared to be a commonwealth.The revolution period is also called the Puritan age, because the English revolution was carried out under a religious cloak.The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in English literature, whose name is John Milton.John Milton is the greatest writer of the seventeenth century, and one of the giants of English literature.In Revolution Period John Milton towers over his age as William Shakespeare towers over the Elizabethan Age and as Chaucer towers over the Medieval period.During the civil war and the commonwealth, there were two leaders in England, Cromwell , the man of action, and John Milton, the man of thought.In 1637 Milton wrote the finest pastoral elegy in English, Lycidas, to memorize the tragic death of a Cambridge friend.Milton wrote his masterpiece Paradise Lost during his blindness.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age,John Bunyan occupied the most important place.The Pilgrim’s Progress has been one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing produced during the Puritan Age.John Bunyan wrote his masterpiece The Pilgrim’s P rogress during his second imprisonment.The Pilgrim’s Progress gives a vivid and satirical description of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.Dryden wrote many works on literary criticism, and has been regarded as the earliest literary critic of real importance in the history of English literature. The famous piece is “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”. He has been called Father of English prose.“All for Love” is Dryden’s tragedy based on the story of Antony and Cleopatra under the influence of Shakespeare’s tragedy “Antony and Cleopatra”.The literature of the middle and later periods of the 17th century cultimated in the poetry of John Milton and in the prose writing of John Bunyan , and also in the plays and literary criticism of John Dryden.。
英美文学名词解释
名词解释（英国）Epic（叙事诗）: Epic is a narrative poem on the grand scale and in majestic style concerning the exploits and adventures of a superhuman hero (or heroes) engaged in a quest or some serious endeavor. Among noted epics are Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, old English Beowulf and Milton’s Paradise Lost.Romance（传奇）：A Romance is a long composition, in verse or in prose, describing the life and adventures of a noble hero. It generally concerns knights and involves a large amount of fighting as well as a number of miscellaneous adventures and a series of love stories.Ballad（民谣）：Ballad is an anonymous narrative song, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and the fourth lines rhymed.Renaissance（文艺复兴）：The word “Renaissance” means “rebirth”(of learning). The Renaissance period was marked by a reawakening of interest in learning, in the individual and in the world of nature. The revival of learning led scholars back to the culture of Greece and Rome. The rebirth of interest in the individual gave rise to a new appreciation of beauty, to a desire for self-expression in varied activities and to the creation of great works of art. The renewal of curiosity about the natural world ultimately drew men to discover new lands and new scientific truth. Humanism（人道主义）：Humanism was a literary and philosophic system of thought which attempted to place the affairs of mankind at the centre of its concerns. According to humanists, man should mould the world according to his own desires, and attains happiness by removing all external checks by the exercise of the human intellect.Sonnet（十四行诗）：A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme. Puritanism（清教主义）：Puritanism was the religiousdoctrine of revolutionarybourgeoisie during the EnglishRevolution. It preached thrift,sobriety, hard work andunceasing labor, with noextravagant enjoyment of thefruits of labor. Worldlypleasures were condemned asharmful. Puritans opposedchurches,squandering property.Enlightenment（启蒙运动）：The movement, on the whole,an expression of the struggle ofthe bourgeoisie againstfeudalism, class inequality,stagnation and prejudices. Theenlighteners believed in thepower of reason and thewatchword was CommonSense.Neo-classicism（新古典主义）：Modeling itself on theliterature of ancient Greece andRome, neoclassicism exalts thevirtues of proportion, unity,harmony, grace, taste, manners,and restraint. It values realismand reason over imaginationand emotion. Wit and satireflourished in this period, as didthe ode and verse written inheroic couplets.Romanticism（浪漫主义）：Romanticism is a movementprevailing the Western world inthe 19th century in literature,art, music and philosophy,beginning as a reaction andprotest against the bondage ofrules and customs ofneo-classicism to unfetterhuman spirit. It returned tonature and plain humanity formaterial. It is a movement ofexpression of individualoriginality. Imagination ishighlighted and a dream ofgolden age is required againststern reality.Critical Realism（批判现实主义）：Critical realistsdescribed with much vividnessand artistic skill the chief traitsof the English society andcriticized the capitalist systemfrom a democratic viewpoint.In their best works, the greedand hypocrisy of the upperclasses are contrasted with thehonesty and good-heartednessof the obscure “simple people”of the lower classes. Humorand satire abound. Withoutfinding a way of solution, theydo not point toward revolutionbut rather evolution orreformism with happy endings.Aestheticism（唯美主义）：Thebasic theory of the Aestheticmovement---“art for art’s sake”.Aestheticism places art abovelife, and holds that life shouldimitate art, not art imitate life.According to the aesthetes, allartistic creation is absolutelysubjective as opposed toobjective. Only when art is forart’s sake, can it be immortal.Stream of Consciousness（意识流小说）：First, it reveals theaction or plot through themental processes of thecharacters. Second, characterdevelopment is achievedthrough revelation of extremelypersonal and often typicalthought processes. Third, theaction of the plot seldomcorresponds to realchronological time, but movesback and forth through presenttime to memories of pastevents and dreams of the future.Fourth, it replaces narration,description, and commentarywith interior monologue andfree association.Women’s Movement（女性运动）：feminism is a belief in thesocial, political and economicequality of the sexes, and amovement organized aroundthe conviction that biologicalsex should not be thepre-determinant factor shapinga person's social identity orsocio-political or economicrights.Oedipus Complex（恋母情结）：In Greek myth, Oedipus isthe king who is said to kill hisfather and marry his mother.According to Freud, childrenmay have sexual drivessubconsciously toward theopposite parent. Here, Oedipuscomplex refers to that boy’sobsession to his mother. InEnglish literature, Lawrence isthe first to introduce malecharacters’ impotence tofemales because of mother’sexcessive love.。
2011年7月自考真题英美文学选读
全国2011年7月自学考试英美文学选读试题3课程代码：00604请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.1. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare3. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towardshuman life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter's TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece4. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in Englishliterarure since Beowulf.A.AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes5. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ______.A. self - esteemB. self - relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work6. “Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ______.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson7. The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______.A. A Modest ProposalB. A Tale of a Tub第 1 页C. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books8. As a representative of the Enlightenment,______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism toEngland.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift9. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______ has been regardedby some as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Samuel Richardson10. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.11. “Byronic hero”is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.A.being proudB. being of humble originC.being rebelliousD. being mysterious12. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.A. the verse novelB. the blank verseC. the heroic coupletD. the dramatic poetry13. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of theunderworld in the nineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby14. 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.A. self - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness15. The symbolic meaning of “Book” in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and the Book is ______.A. the common senseB. the hard truthC. the comprehensive knowledgeD. the dead truth16. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation第 2 页as a ______ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic17. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernism EXCEPT______.A. expressionismB. surrealismC. stream of consciousnessD. black humour18. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the three trilogies of ______.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC. Greene's Catholic novelsD. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels19. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______” who demonstrated a particular disillusionover the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in their society.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets20.The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.A.PilgrimageB. UlyssesC.Mrs.DallowayD. A Passage to Inida第 3 页21. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th centurywas ______.A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady GregoryC. J.M.SyngeD. John Galworthy22. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family ReunionD. The Waste Land23. The American writer ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist In-truder in the Dust in 1950.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Gertrude SteinC. William FaulknerD.T.S. Eliot24. Hemingway's second big success is ______ , which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the wholegeneration in the 1920s, in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. A Farewell to ArmsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the Sea25. With the publication of ______ , Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimatelymake him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.A. Sister CarrieB. The TitanC. The GeniusD. The Stoic26. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream-of-consciousness”novels and the founder of ______.A. neoclassicismB. psychological realismC. psychoanalytical criticismD. surrealism27. In 1849, Herman Melville published ______ ,a semi-autobiographical novel, con- cerning the sufferingsof a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A. OmooB. MardiC. RedburnD. Typee28. As a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,______ marks the climax of Mark Twain's literary activity.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Life on the MississippiC. The Gilded AgeD. Roughing It29. Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self- creatingfictions, and paved the way to Modernism.第 4 页A. RomanticismB. RationalismC. Post-modernismD. Cynicism30. When World War II broke out,______ began working for the Italian government, engaged in some radiobroadcasts of anti- Semitism and pro- Fascism.A. Ezra PoundB.T.S. EliotC. Henry JamesD. Robert Frost31. In 1915 ______ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest against America's failureto join England in the First World War.A. Henry JamesB.T.S.EliotC. W.D.Howells D. Ezra Pound32. What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______ ,”that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verseB. free rhythmC. balanced structureD. free verse33. The American woman poet ______ wanted to live simply as a complete independent being, and so shedid, as a spinster.A. Emily ShawB. Anna DickinsonC. Emily DickinsonD. Anne Bret34. The Birthmark drives home symbolically ______ point that evil is a man's birthmark, something he wasborn with.A. Whitman'sB. Melville'sC. Hawthorne'sD. Emerson's35. The Financier ,The Titan and The Stoic written by ______ are called his “Trilogy of Desire”.A. Henry JamesB. Theodore DreiserC. Mark TwainD. Herman Melville36. Disregarding grammar and punctuation,______ always used “i” instead of “I” in his poems to showhis protest against self-importance.A. Wallace StevensB. Ezra PoundC. Robert FrostD.E.E.Cummings37. Though Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus onthe landscape and people in ______ , he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man's life in his long poetic career.A. the westB. the south第 5 页C. New EnglandD. Alaska38. Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of ______ with a doublevision.A. the Gilded AgeB. the Rational AgeC. the Jazz AgeD. the Magic Age39. In the American Romantic writings,______ came to function almost as a dramatic character thatsymbolized moral law.A. fireB. waterC. treesD. wilderness40. The desire for an escape from society and a return to ______ became a permanentconvention of the American literature.A. the family lifeB. natureC. the ancient timeD. fantasy of loveII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Wherefore feed and clothe and saveFrom the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain 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?42. 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 doTo swell a progress, start a scene or twoAdvise 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;第 6 页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?43．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?44. I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm-The Eyes around- had wrung them dry-And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset- when the KingBe 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?III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. List at least two leading neoclassicists in England. What did Neoclassicists celebrate in literarycreation?46. Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. Why is Jane Eyre sucha successful novel?第 7 页47. Who are the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what are the differences intheir underst anding of the “truth”?48. What's Dreiser' s naturalistic belief? Please discuss the question with Carrie, a character in SisterCarrie as an example.IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Briefly discuss William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterization, plot constructionand language.50. 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.第 8 页。
美国文学史及选读练习题
美国文学史及选读练习题I. Choose the relevant match from Column II for each item in Column I.Section A I II( ) 1. Walt Whitman A. The Scarlet Letter( ) 2. Herman Melville B. The Sketch Book( ) 3. Washington Irving C. Typee( ) 4. O Henry D. Leaves of Grass( ) 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne E. The Gift of the MagiSection B I II( ) 1. Hester Prynne A. The Portrait of A Lady( ) 2. George Hurstwood B. Uncle Tom’s Cabin( ) 3. Isabel Archer C. Moby Dick( ) 4. Ahab D. Sister Carrie( ) 5. Eva Clare E. The Scarlet LetterSection C I II( ) 1. Benjamin Franklin A. Martin Eden( ) 2. Thomas Paine B. Leather-Stocking Tales( ) 3. James Fenimore Cooper C. Rights of Man( ) 4. Mark Twain D. Poor Richars’s Almanac( ) 5. Jack London E. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnII. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (10%)1In Washington Irving’s work appeared the first modern Short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.2The first important American novelist was .3To a Waterfowl is perhaps the peak of ______’s work, it regarded as “the most perfect brief poem in the language ” .4 A superb book entitled ______ came out of Henry David Thoreau’s two-year life experience near asmall lake.5William Sidney Porter，whose pen name was ______，was the author of The Cop and the Anthem．6Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the values that dominated much of the early American writing.7American Romanticism ended with the Walt Whiteman’s.8was called “the father of the American detective stories”.9was responsible for bring Transcendentalism to New England.10Theodore Dreiser’s first novel is.11The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.12______was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War．13American Romanticism started with the publication of Washington Irving’s ______ .14The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.15Benjamin Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece .16On January 10,1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet appeared.17Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the values that dominated much of the early American writing.18The most outstanding poet in America of 18th century was .19was the first American lyric poet.20was responsible for bring Transcendentalism to New England.III: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the ONE that would best complete the statement.1. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was _______.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher2. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau3. ______ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One of his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on this young nation.”A. John SmithB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas Jefferson Paine4. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT ______.A. common senseB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism5. Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.A. TypeeB. OmooC. White JacketD. Moby Dick6. As a philosophical and literary movement, ______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. ModernismB. RationalismC. SentimentalismD. Transcendentalism7. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in _________.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Sister CarrieC. The Great GatsbyD. The Old Man and Sea8. Realism was a reaction against______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. NeoclassicismD. Enlightenment9. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman10. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. The Rise of Silas Lapham11. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men12. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in and Thoreau.A. JeffersonB. EmersonC. FreneauD. Oversoul13. Which of the following doesn’t belong to Dreiser’s “Trilogy of Desire”A. The FinancierB. The TitanC. The StoicD. An American Tragedy14. written by Henry James brought him first international fame.A. The Golden BowlB. The AmericanC. The Tragic MuseD. Daisy Miller15.Walden is written by .A. EmersonB. ThoreauC. PoeD. Hawthorne16. The Cop and the Anthem is written by .A. O. HenryB. Henry JamesC. Jack LondonD. Mark Twain17. is famous for psychological realism.A. Mark TwainB. William Dean HowellsC. Henry JamesD. Walt Whitman18. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England TranscendentalismA. NatureB. WaldenC. On BeautyD. Self-Reliance19. Who was the ONLY good American author before the Revolutionary War.A. John SmithB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas PaineD. Thomas Jefferson20. As a literary and philosophical movement, flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism21. ____ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. The Divinity School AddressD. Civil Disobedience22.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expressionA. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace23. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!” The book refers to ____.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. BelovedB. Pride and Prejudice D. Uncle Tom’s Cabin24. In Leaves of Grass, _____ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above25. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as____.A. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan Age26. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was _______.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher27. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau28. ______ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One of his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on this young nation.”A. John SmithB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas Jefferson Paine29. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT ______.A. common senseB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism30. Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.A. TypeeB. OmooC. White JacketD. Moby Dick31. As a philosophical and literary movement, ______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. ModernismB. RationalismC. SentimentalismD. Transcendentalism32. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in _________.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Sister CarrieC. The Great GatsbyD. The Old Man and Sea33. Realism was a reaction against______ or a move away from the bias towards romance andself-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. NeoclassicismD. Enlightenment34. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman35. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. The Rise of Silas Lapham36. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men37. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in and Thoreau.A. JeffersonB. EmersonC. FreneauD. Oversoul38. Which of the following doesn’t belong to Dreiser’s “Trilogy of Desire”A. The FinancierB. The TitanC. The StoicD. An American Tragedy39. written by Henry James brought him first international fame.A. The Golden BowlB. The AmericanC. The Tragic MuseD. Daisy Miller40.Walden is written by .A. EmersonB. ThoreauC. PoeD. Hawthorne41. The Cop and the Anthem is written by .A. O. HenryB. Henry JamesC. Jack LondonD. Mark Twain42. is famous for psychological realism.A. Mark TwainB. William Dean HowellsC. Henry JamesD. Walt Whitman43. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England TranscendentalismA. NatureB. WaldenC. On BeautyD. Self-Reliance44. Who was the ONLY good American author before the Revolutionary War.A. John SmithB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas PaineD. Thomas Jefferson45. As a literary and philosophical movement, flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism46. ____ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.A. The American ScholarB. Self-RelianceC. The Divinity School AddressD. Civil Disobedience47.Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expressionA. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace48. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!” The book refers t o ____.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. BelovedB. Pride and Prejudice D. Uncle Tom’s Cabin49. In Leaves of Grass, _____ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. freedomC. democracyD. all the above50. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as____.A. the Golden AgeB. the Modern AgeC. the Gilded AgeD. the Puritan AgeIV: Define the literary terms listed below.1Transcendentalism2Free Verse3 Local ColorV: Answer the following questions briefly based on your understanding of the texts studied.To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.Questions:a. This paragraph is taken from a famous essay. What is the name of the essayb. Who is the authorc. What does the author say would happen if the stars appeared one night in a thousand yearsd. Give a specific term to cover the author’s belief。
英国文学史名词解释
英国⽂学史名词解释1 Epic :I t’s a long narrative poem celebrating the great deeds of one or more legendary heroes, majestic in theme and style.It deals with legendary or historical events of national or universal significance. The hero, usually protected by or even descended from Gods, performs superhuman exploits in battle or in marvelous voyages, often saving or founding a nation.Example of epics: Homer’s Epics: Odyssey2 Romances it is another type of narrative poem ,in which adventure is a central action feature .the plots of romance tend to be complex ,with surprising and even magical actions common .the chief characters are human beings ,though they often confront monsters ,dragons and disguised animals in a world ,does not adhere consistently to the laws of nature ,as we know them .romance in short deads with the .3 sonnet A sonnet is a lyric with 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, restricted toa definite rhyme scheme. The italian or petrarchan sonnet is divided cleaner into actave and sestet ,with respective rhyming abba ,abba and cdc dcd. The shakespeare sonnet consists of tree quatrians followed by a couple :abab cdcd efef gg4 heroic couplet A rhymed pair of iambic pentameter lines, and it was established early by Chaucer, later John Dryden and Alexander Pope employed this form with great effect5 Ballad It is a folk song or orally transmitted poem telling in a direct way and dramatic manner some popular stories usually in local history or legend.The story is told simply, impersonally, and often with vivid dialogues. It is often composed in quatrains with alternating 4-stress and 3-stress lines, and the 2nd & the 4th lines rhymed.6 Renaissance it is the rebirth of artistic ,literary and academic interest and creating that marks the transition from medieval Europe to the modern world.it was “the greatest progressive revolution that mankind has so far experienced, a time which called for giants and produced giants --- giants in power of thought, passion, and character, in universality and learning7 T ragedy then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; … in the form of action, not of narration; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions8 Essay It is a short written composition that discusses a subject or proposes an argument without claiming to be a complete or thorough exposition. As a minor literary form, the essay is often flexible in style and differs from formal academic dissertation.9 Metaphysical poem he name is given to a diverse group of 17th century English poets whose works are notable for its ingenious use of intellectual & theological concepts in surprising conceits, strange paradoxes, and far-fetched imagery, with John Donne as the founder of the school of poetry10Allegory, is a story or visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visual meaning, with abstract qualities given to human shape11 Enlightenment a general term applied to the movement of intellectual liberation that developed in Western Europe from the late 17th c12Sentimental novels Inspired by Pamela, the sentimental novels exhibit the close connections between virtue and sensibility in repeatedly tearful scenes, and often put sentiment high above reason, and turn to the countryside for materials13Gothic novel a story of terror and suspense, usually set in a gloomy old castle or monastery. tales of macabre, fantastic and supernatural happenings, set in haunted castles, graveyards, ruins and wild landscapes and often with a weak or innocent heroine going through some horribleexperiences.14Romanticism An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism.15An ode i s a lyric poem of some length, dealing with a lofty theme in a dignified manner and originally intended to be sung.Ode is a dignified and elaborately structured lyric poem of some length, praising and glorifying an individual, commemorating an event, or describing nature.16realism It is the telling of a story in a manner that is faithful to the reader’s experience of real life, limiting events in the plot to things that might actually happen and characters to people who might actually exist. In short, it is true depiction of life as it really is17Critical realism It is a term applied to the realistic fiction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.18 Blank verse: unrhymed verse lines of iambic pentameter.19 irony: the use of words to express sth other than or opposite of the literary meaning, and also a humourous or sardonic literary style or form characterised by irony.20 Stanza: a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a recurring pattern of meter and rhyme.21 Humanism Humanism is a literary and philosophical view emphasizing humankind as its center concerns. Humanism originated in the Renaissance, the term has been used many ways, but always suggests humanity as the central concern, with the natural world (science) and the spiritual world (religion) valued for their relation t22legend As a song or a narrative handed down from the past, it differs from the myth on the basis of the elements of historical truth it contains。
双城记英语介绍
双城记英语介绍《双城记》英文介绍及翻译英文介绍："A Tale of Two Cities" is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. The story revolves around three main characters: Sydney Carton, a British lawyer who resembles Dr. Alexandre Manette, a French physician wrongfully imprisoned for eighteen years; and Lucie Manette, Dr. Manette's daughter, who falls in love with Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat.The novel opens with the arrest of Dr. Manette and his imprisonment in the Bastille, a symbol of the absolute monarchy's oppressive rule. Years later, when the Revolution breaks out, Dr. Manette is released, but his daughter Lucie is separated from her husband, Charles Darnay, who is accused of treason.Sydney Carton, a friend of Charles Darnay, resembles him physically and offers to take his place, knowing that he will face the death penalty. In a series of harrowing events, Carton sacrifices himself for the sake of love and freedom, embodying the spirit of the Revolution."A Tale of Two Cities" is not only a thrilling story of adventureand romance but also a profound commentary on the nature of revolution and the conflict between idealism and realism. Dickens captures the essence of the French Revolution, its causes, consequences, and the moral dilemmas faced by individuals in times of upheaval.中文翻译：《双城记》是查尔斯·狄更斯的一部历史小说，背景设置在法国大革命时期。
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Romance and realism
When it comes to love, I believe it differs from romance and realism.
And after reading the book Pride and Prejudice, I endure my opinion
further more.
As we all know Elizabeth and Charlotte are best friend, however, their
value of love are absolutely different. They proof the two kinds of love
very exactly.
There is no doubt that Elizabeth obtains romance and even
unforgettable love. In the very beginning, she is biased against Darcy, so
she behaves against him whenever and wherever. But proof of the
pudding, time will tell, with time going by, Elizabeth gradually realizes
the beauty in Darcy and falls love in him deeply. Finally lovers get
married. I believe that so romantic is the love that the memory will float
through their mind forever. Especially the last time Darcy make an offer
to her, they meet by accident at dawn, the beautiful scenery and the
soulful confession, I love you, most ardently make a unparalleled picture.
Faced with the offer from Collins who has a steady job, good
background and sufficient income, and even the force from her mother,
Elizabeth refuses him seriously, saying that you could not make me happy,
so we can say that Elizabeth has the courage to peruse happiness.
Talking about Collins, we have to say what a person he is. As a rector,
he is a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.
He is always good at flattering; it is not exaggerating to say that his
pleasing attentions are the result of previous study. He is not agreeable,
sensible nor handsome. And from his engagement to Elizabeth, we can
see he is an odious man, pedantry, self-righteous and ridiculous.
However, it is just such a man, Charlotte accept him as her husband.
Her thought is realistic, at the age of twenty-seven, without having been
handsome or wealthy; she asks only a comfortable home. Considering
Collin’s condition, she thinks it to be her chance of happiness and
entering the marriage state.
To tell the truth, everyone including Charlotte has the right to acquire a
romantic love if you want regardless of how old you are how much
money you own or whether you are handsome. Cinderella can also
encounter the prince, experiencing the romantic love. But nobody can say
romantic love and romantic love which is better. Liang Shanbo and Zhu
Yingtai met at school, after suffering much; they changed as butterflies
and flied together freely forever. Yes, the love story is so beautiful that it
survive now. But, nobody can say Romeo and Juliet’s love is not romantic,
however, their romance is at the expense of lives. As an old saying goes,
the common is the real. In addition, somebody says, romance cannot be
eating as breed. That is reasonable, isn’t it? In that way, I say that
Charlotte has made a wisdom choice.
All in all, romantic love and realistic love, each has its advantages.
What I want to say is that, it’s OK to peruse romance, but it’s unadvisable
to ignore realism entirely.