自考英语本科英美文学简答题汇总

C.What idea does the quoted passage express? Here,Prufrock‟s inability to do anything against the society he is in is made him st rikingly clear by using a sharp comparison.Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vai n to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock‟s current predicament.

9.“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood…

A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.Robert Lee Frost‟s The Road Not Taken.

B.What does the phrase “ages and ages hence”mean? Many many years later.

C.What idea does the quoted passage express? The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is co nscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reade r “make good choice of your life”.

D.What additional meaning do the two roads have? Life is here compared to a journey.The two roads stand for the choice one has to make at a critical moment in his life.

E.What dilemma is the speaker facing? Since where the road leads to is uncertain,one has to wait to see the result of the choice until one‟s life is coming to an end.Then it will be too late.The speaker acknowledges the limits of life,yet he indulges himself in the notion that we could be really different from what we have become,because life is unpredictable.

18.“The woods are lovely,dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep…

A.Identify the poem and the poet.Robert Lee Frost,Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

B.What does the word“sleep”mean? die

C.What idea do the four lines express? When facing the still and lovely forest,the speaker cannot stay,because of his obligation and responsibilities.

27.“I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight I got from looking through a pane of glass…

A.Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.—Robert Lee Frost,After Apple-Picking

B.what does the word “strangeness‟‟ refer to?— the “essence of winter sleep”?

C.What do the quoted lines imply?

10.“A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! －Fair as a star,when only one Is shining in the sky.”

A.Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this stanza is taken.William Wordsworth,“She Dwelt Among the Untrodde n Ways”

B.Pick out the metaphor used in this stanza.The flower (violet) is used as a metaphor.

C.What quality does the author intend to show by using the metaphor?By comparing a country girl (Lucy) to a violet,the author int ends to show her quality of beauty and her virtues which are often neglected by the common people just like a wild flower bloomin

g by an untrodden road.

12.“Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor,valley,rock,or hill; Ne‟er saw I,never felt,a calm so deep! (Wil liam Wordsworth‟s sonnet: “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”

A.What does the word “glideth”in the fourth line mean? The word “glideth”means “flows”

B.What kind of figure of speech is used by wordsworth to describe the “river”? Wordsworth uses personification to describe the “rive

C.What idea does the fourth line express? The 4th line expresses the idea that the river is flowing happily as a living things,wh ich implies the beauty of the nature.

D.What does this sonnet describe? It describes a vivid picture of a beautiful morning in London.

E.What does the word “mighty heart”refer to? London

F.The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form.What is the feature of the Italian form of sonnet? It follows strictly the Italian form,with a clear division between the octave and the sestet,the rhyme scheme is abbaabba,cdcdcd..

13.“The river glideth at his own sweet will： Dear God! the very houses seem asleep； And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(from William Wordsworth‟s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”)

A.What figure of speech is used in the quoted lines? Italian form

B.What does “that mighty heart‟‟ refer to? London

C.What does the poem describe?— It describes a vivid picture of a beautiful morning in London.

23．“For oft,when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood,they flash upon that inward eye”…

A．Identify the author and the title.William Wordsworth,I wandered Lonely as a Cloud

B．What does the phrase “inward eye”mean? Human soul

C．Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.The poet expressed his love for the daffodils.

11.“We passed The School,where Children strove At Recess－in the Ring…

A.Who is the author and the poem Emily Dickinson “Because I could not stop for Death－”

B.What do the underlined parts symbolize? It stands for three stage of life: “the school”--youth,“the Fields of Gazing Grain”—mature period,“the setting sun”—end of life

C.Where were “we”heading toward? “We”are riding in a carriage,heading towards Eternity.

D.What figure of speech is used in the poem? Symbolism

E.What are Dickinson‟s unique writing features in relation to the quoted lines? Dashes are used as a musical device to create cad ence and capital letters as a means of emphasis.

14.“With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz— Between the light—and me—

A.Identify the poem and the poet.I heard a Fly buzz-when I died by Emily Dickinson.

B.What do “Windows”symbolically stand for? Eyes,for they are considered as the window of human soul.

C.What idea does the quoted passage express? The last thing the dying person saw and heard was the flying and its buzz.When the e yes failed,the human soul was closed and the person died.(The speaker could not see any of the afterlife or God or angels she exp ected to see.)

15.“Is dying hard,Daddy?‟ No,I think it‟s pretty easy,Nick,It all depends.”

A.Identify the work and the author.Earnest Hemingway,Indian Camp

B.What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question? Nick was preoccupied with the pain and the violence of death./life a nd death

C.Why did the father add “It all depends”after he answered his son‟s question? By adding “It all depends”the father meant tha