getz英美文学选读考试题
一．9 authors, 20 works. (20)
William Shakespearean: The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece.
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders. Captain Singleton
si ulement Robert Burns: My heart’s in the Highlands, A Red Red Ro. Auld Lang Syne.
William Wordsworth:“The Solitary Reaper”. “We are S even”, “Lucy”, “Michael”, “Simon Lee””Lucy”I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, The Solitary Reaper.
John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, On a Grecian Urn, To Psyche, TO a Nightingale. “Ode to Autumn”, “Ode on Melancholy”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”and “Ode to a Nightingale”. All were written in 1819 with the prai of beauty as their general theme.
Jane Austen: Novels: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma
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Charles Dickens: long novel: Pickwick Papers Novels: Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friends
Charlotte Bronte: The Professor, Jane Eyre.
Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native, The Mayer of Casterbridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure
二，对错（10）
1. Act three is the best known and most important of Hamlet’s soliloquies among all the soliloquies in the play. In this soliloquy, Hamlet reveals his innermost thoughts and emotions, his hesitation in particular, before taking decisive action.
2. Robinson Crusoe retells, in the first person singular, a sailor’s adventure on an inhabitated island.
3. Defoe traces the development of Robison Crusoe from a innocent and artless youth into a clever and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.
4. Burn s’s poetry was written in the Scottish dialect on a variety of subjects. A large number of his poems deal with themes of love, friendship, Scottish life and nature.
5. A cond edition 1800 contained more poems and a preface by Wordsworth. The preface to Lyrical Ballads best read as a statement of his principle of poems.
6. According to Wordsworth, he believed that “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” Thus he located many of his poems in “common life” and his poetry is distinguished by the simplicity and purity of his language.
7. There he lives a life of poverty and miry, and makes friends with the lively and penniless Mr. Micawder.
8. Jane Eyre maintains that women should have equal rights with men, thus this novel has drawn the feminists’ attention in the twentieth century.
三，选择（10）jaya
According to Wordsworth, he believed that “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”
alternation He located many of his poems in “common life” and his poetry is distinguished by the simplicity and purity of his language.
四，读选文，回答问题（两诗歌，三小说）作者名字（5个40分）
1.Sonnet18: Shakespearian.
线圈英文 What is the theme of this sonnet? -- Runs in iambic pentameter, rhymed ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
2.The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Shakespearian.
What do the “to or not to be” soliloquy tell us about Hamlet’s state of mind?―The soliloquy opens with a question, and there two other extended questions in the passage, all of which suggests that Hamlet is undecided, and either unable or unwilling to make up
his mind, contemplating suicide, and dinchanted with the suffering of human life. He is cynical, but comforts himlf with reflection, even though he is clearly suffering greatly and aware of his own sins and weakness.
Why Hamlet hesitates before taking decisive action? -- Hamlet is often indecisive and hesitant, but at other times prone to rash and impulsive acts. Even at the end of this whole narrative of Hamlet's, he still doesn't decide on anything. He's just speaking his thoughts; he's not committing to anything. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud: William Wordsworth.
3. I wandered lonely as a cloud: William Wordsworth.
cry What does “daffodil” stand for? ---Daffodil stand for nature in this poem, but the poet does not depict it simply as part of nature. As for Wordsworth, he do not just want to depict the natural landscape, moreover, he pays much attention to the interaction between mature and human nature. He perceives nature as a stone of truths about human nature.
Analyze the form of this poem by taking the first two lines as example. ---This poem consists of four stanzas and in each stanza there are six lines. In each line there are four feet with a weak- strong sound pattern. The rime scheme in each stanza is a b a b c c.
I wandered lonely as a cloud a
That floats on high o’er vales and hills, bproductions
When all at once I saw a crowd, a
A host of golden daffodils; b
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