A卷答案 作品赏析试题2011.6

山东科技大学2010 —2011 学年第二学期
《作品赏析》考试试卷(A)
Directions: This is the term-final test to English Literature Appreication. This paper includes 4 items and the total point is 100. Time allowed is 2 hours. All your answers should be written on the answer sheet. Remember to write it clearly.
I. Multiple choices (30%): Please choose the best answers to the following statements.
1-5: BAA DC 6-10: B A B B A 11-15: D A C A B
16-20: B A A DA 21-25: DBCDA 26-30: ABBCD
II. Please define the literary terms listed below. (15%)
1. A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usu. for the better. In comedy things work out happily in the end. (5%)
2. Romanticism: was a movement in literature, philosophy, music and art which developed in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is a revolt against classicism for its failing to express man’s emotional nature and overlook his profound inner forces, romanticism emphasized individual values and aspirations above those of society with its keynote intensity and watchword imagination. it looked to the Middle Ages and to direct contact with nature for inspiration. Its representatives in literature include Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Whitman, etc. (5%)
3. A fixed form of lyric poetry that consist of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter. There are two basic types of sonnets, the Italian and the English Sonnet. (5%)
III. Please answer the following questions after reading the selections. (45%) Selection One (15%)
1. Hamlet (2%)
2. William Shakespeare (2%)
3. About this utterer, what does this speech show? (11%)
“To be or not to be” means to live or end one’s life by self-destruction. Hamlet already spoken of sucide as a means of escape, and he dwells on it in a later part of this speech, giving however a different reason for refraining. The notion in the words “or not to be” suggests that he is speculating on the possibility of “something after death”. The whole drift of the speech shows his belief in a future life. Practic ally the whole speech has become proverbial as an outpouring of utter worldweariness. Selection Two(15%)
1. Ode to the West Wind (2%)
2. Shelly (2%)
3. The rising west wind, linked with the cycle of the seasons, is presented as the outer
correspondent to an inner change from apathy to spiritual vitality, and from imaginative sterility to a burst of creative power which is paralleled to the inspiration of the Biblical prophets.
Thus Shelly’s wind is a spirit, the breath of Autum’s being, which on earth, sk y, and sea destroys in the autumn in order to revive in the spring. Around this central image the poem weaves various cycles of death and regeneration-----Vegetational, human, and divine.
The stanza used in this ode was developed by Shelly from the interlaced three-line units of the Italian terza rima ：aba bcb cdc, etc. Shelly’s stanza consists of a set of four such tercets, closed by a couplet rhyming with the middle line of the preceding tercet: aba bcb cdc ded ee. (11%)
Selection Three (15%)
1. Oliver Twist (2%)
2. Charles Dickens (2%)
3. What can you see from this passage? (11%)
This passage tells us the terrible conditions in the English workhouse of the time and the cruel treatment of a poor orphan by the so-called “philanthropists”. Oliver was beaten up and punished merely because he ventured to ask for an extra portion of gruel to alleviate his gnawing hunger. This is one of the details to show the extreme brutality and corruption of the oppressors and their agents under the mask of philanthropy. It is in scenes like this that we see the great critical realist writers Dickens vocing the helpless sufferings of the poor and the oppressed.
IV. Please summarize the development of the English literature. (10%) (Omitted)。