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英语专业英美文学试卷及期末

英美文学试卷A共7页第1页I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1’=10’)1. () Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well asthe founder of English realism. His masterpieceThe Canterbury tales contains 26 stories.2. () English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.3. () The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urbanlife.4. () The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influencesthat brought about the English Romantic Movement.5. () Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longingfor life and love. Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelingsand the life as she sees around.6. () The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19 th century are Thomas Hardy, JohnGalsworthy and Bernard Shaw.7. () Emily Dickinson is remembered as the“All American Writer ”.8. ()The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature.9. () Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and Americanconsciousness.10. () In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached itsgreatest heights.II.Fill in the blanks. (20 x 1 ’=20’)11. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was___________.12.The War of Independence lasted eight years till__________.13.Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________has been regarded as "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence". It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.14.The American ___________ writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and described the integrity of human character reacting under various circumstances and pictured the pioneers ofthe Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles of the working class. The leading figures were ____________, ____________, ____________, ____________, etc.15.No period in American history is more eventful than that between the two world wars. The literary features of the time can be seen in the writings of those ________ writers as Ezra Pound, and the writers of the Lost Generation as ___________.16.Two features of English Renaissance are the curiosity for ___________ and the interest inthe activities of _____________________.17.Shakespeare’earliest great success in tragedy is ____________, a play of youth and love, with the famous balcony scene.18.There are three types of poets in 17th century English literature. They are Puritan poets,___________ poets and ______________ poets.19.Pope’sAn Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ___________________.20.___________ has been regarded by some as“Father of the English Novel”for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.21.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”is an epigrammatic line by _______________.wrence’s most controversial novel is ___________, the best probably _________.III. Multiple choice. (20 x 1’=20’)23.Among the three major works by John Milton ________ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature sinceBeowulf.A. Paradise RegainedB. Samson AgonistesC. LycidasD.Paradise Lost24. Francis Bacon’sessays are famous for their brevity, compactness and __________.A. complicityB. complexityC. powerfulnessD. mildness25. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good style “asproper words in proper places”.A. Henry FieldingB. Jonathan SwiftC. Samuel JohnsonD. Alexander Pope26.The Pilgrim ’sProgress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for_________.A. material wealthB. spiritual salvationC. universal truthD. self-fulfillment27.“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”The quoted part is taken from _________.A. Jane EyreB. Wuthering HeightsC. Pride and PrejudiceD.Sense and Sensibility28. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”by William WordsworthC.“Remorse”by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman29. The most distinguishing feature of CharlesDickens ’works is his _________.A. simple vocabularyB. bitter and sharp criticismC. character-portrayal D. pictures of happiness30.“My Last Duchess”is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s________.A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB. excellent choice of wordsC. mastering of the metrical devicesD. use of the dramatic monologue31.________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______ashis encyclopedia-like masterpiece.A James Joyce,UlyssesB. E.M. Foster, A Passage to IndiaC. D. H. Lawrence, Sons and loversD. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway32. Which of the following comments on Charles Dickens is wrong?A. Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Modern PeriodB. His serious intention is to expose and criticize all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy andcorruptness he sees all around him.C. The later works show the development of Dickens towards a highly conscious artist of themodern type.D. A Tale of Two Citiesis one of his late works.33._____was known as“ the poets’ poet”.A. William ShakespeareB. Edmund SpenserC. John DonneD. John Milton34.Which of the following poet belongs to the active Romantic poet?A. KeatsB. SoutheyC. WordsworthD. Coleridge35.______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A. BeowulfB. The Canterbury TalesC. Don JuanD. Paradise Lost36.___________ is the first modern American novel.A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. The Sketch BookD. The Leatherstocking Tales37.Which of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism? A.It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.B. It can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truthintuitively ”.C. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.D. It sprang from South America in the late l9th century.38.The theme of Washington Irving’sRip Van Winkleis _________.A. the conflict of human psycheB. the fight against racial discriminationC. thefamilial conflict D. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past39.The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ________ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art”of creating modern diction.A. Ezra PoundB. Ernest HemingwayC. Robert FrostD. Theodore Dreiser40. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?A. EmersonB. Jack LondonC. Theodore DreiserD. Darwin41. ________ is NOT true in describing American naturalists.A. they were deeply influenced by DarwinismB. they were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile ZolaC. they chose their subjects for the lower ranks or societyD. they used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists42. Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________.A. international themeB. national themeC.European theme D. regional themeIV . Explain the following literary items.(4x 5’=20’)43.Spenserian Stanzake Poets45.Humanism46.BalladV. Questions. (3x 10’=30’)47.“Robinson Crusoe”is usually considered as Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece. Discuss why it became so successful when it was published?48.What is "Byronic hero"?49.Mark Twain and Henry James are two representatives of the realistic writers in American literature. How is Twain’s realism different form James’s realism?参照答案：I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).( 此题共 10 空，每空 1 分，共10分 )1-5: FFTTT6-10: FFTTFII. Fill in the blanks. (此题共20小题，每题 1 分，共 20 分)11.(American) Puritanism12.178313.The American Scholar14.realistic; Mark Twain; Henry James; Jack London; Theodore Dreiser.15.Imagist; Hemingway.16.the classical literature; humanity.17.Romeo and Juliet18.Cavalier; Metaphysical19.heroic couplet20.Henry Fielding21.John Keatsdy Chatterley s lover;’ The RainbowIII. Multiple choice.（此题共20小题，每题1分，共20分)题23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42号答D C B B C A C D A A B A A B D D B D D A案IV . Explain the following literary items.（此题4小题,每题5分,共20分）43.Spenserian Stanza: it refers to a verse form created by Edmund Spenser for his poems. Each stanza has nine lines. Each of the first eight lines is in iambic pentameter, and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter line. The rhythm scheme is ababbcbccke Poets: it refers to those English romantic poets at the beginning of th e19th century, William Wordsworth, for example, who lived in the heart of the Lake District in the north-western part of England and enjoyed the experience of living close to nature, and these poets were the older generation of Romantic poets who had been deeply influenced by the French Revolution of 1789 and its effects. In their writings, they described the beautiful scenes and the country people of the area.45.Humanism refers to the literary culture in the Renaissance. Humanists emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture. Humanism became the central theme of English Renaissance. Thomas More and William Shakespeareare the best representatives of the English humanists.46.Ballad: a story told in songs, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and fourth rhymed. V. Questions.（此题3小题,每题10分,共30分）47.A:Robinson Crusoe is supposedly based on the real adventure of an Alexander Selkirk who once stayed alone on the uninhabited island for five year4s. Actually, the story is an imagination.B:In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a na?ve and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.C. In the novel, Robinson is a real hero and he is an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England. Robinson is a true empire-builder, a colonizer and a foreign trader, who has the courage and will to face hardships and who has determination to preserve himself and improve his livelihood by struggling against nature.D. Robinson Crusoe is an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time. Because of the above reasons, when it was published, people all liked that story, and it became an immediate success.48.Byronic hero is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. With immense superiority in his passions and powers, this Byronic hero would carry on his shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupt society, and would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules wither in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies. The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn social systems and conventions. Such a hero appeared in many of his works, for example, "Don Juan". The figure is somewhat modeled on the life and personality of Byron himself, and makes Byron famous both at home and abroad.49.A. Mark Twain’s realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his won region and people at the forefront of his stories.B. James’s realism is concerned with the“inner world ”of man and the international theme.C. Twain’s language is simple and colloquial and he employs humor in his writing.D. James’s language is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses.。

美国文学期末试卷B卷及答案

美国⽂学期末试卷B卷及答案《美国⽂学》期末考试试卷（B 卷）适⽤班级考试时间 120 分钟学院班级学号姓名Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names ofthe authors. (10%)1. Poor Richard’s Almanac ( )2. The House of the Seven Gables ( )3. “Raven ” ( )4. My Antonia ( )5. Babbitt ( )6. A Streetcar Named Desire ( )7. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( )8. A Farewell to Arms ( )9. The Call of the Wild ( )10. Long Day's Journey into Night ( ) 11. Common Sense ( )12. “Rip Van Winkle ”( ) 13. Walden ( )14. The Song of Hiawatha ( ) 15. Uncle Tom ’s Cabin ( )16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( ) 17. Sister Carrie () 18. The Waste Land ( ) 19. A Farewell to Arms () 20. The Great Gatsby ( ) Ⅱ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks.(10%)1.defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty.2.While working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Samuel LanghorneClemens adopted the pseudonym , the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning two fathoms.3.Ezra Pound initiated a campaign for , which emphasized the directtreatment of an object or situation. He also advocated the language of common speech, but always the exact word.4.Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in hismasterpiece novel _________.5.is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for hisvigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.6.The first of American literature was not written by an American, but by___________________, a British captain, who thus became the first American writer.7._________________ has been considered the “Father of modern American Poetry.\8._______________________was a great democratic poet. He is also the great poet to use the form of free verse.9._____________________is the first American lyric poet.10._______________________is also called novel of the road, it strings the incidents on the line of the hero’s travel.Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the mostappropriate answer. (30%)1. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment,_______________ was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution2. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau3. The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in _______.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest4. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman5. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. The Rise of Silas Lapham6. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men7. Melville’s ____________________ is an encyclopedia o f everything, history,philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.A. The Old Man and the SeaB. Moby DickC. White JacketD. Billy Budd8. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. Thiswas ___________.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher9. The main theme of _______________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry James’B. William Dean Howells’C. Mark Twain’sD. O. Henry’s10. ___________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry ofLi Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD. E. E. Cummings11. With William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain active on the scene,_______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism12. Ezra Pound's long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab13. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a revolution in literary style and language.A. Gertrude SteinB. Ezra PoundC. James JoyceD. all of the above14. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.A. Of Mice and MenB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Great GatsbyD. For Whom the Bell Tolls15. The two areas on which the modem American writers concentrated their criticism were the failures of American society and ___________ .A. the failure of communication among AmericansB. the economic depressionC. the extreme prosperity of AmericaD. the paradise of New LandIV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether thestatements are true or false. (10%)1 All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life.2. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about love and religion.3.The First World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment.4. Hemingway’s works have someti mes been read as an essentially negative commentary on a modern world filled with sterility, failure, and death.5.Mark Twain’s regio n was the Deep South, with its bitter history of slavery, civil warand destruction.6. Ernest Hemingway developed a spare, tight, reportorial prose based on simple sentence structure and using a restricted vocabulary, precise imagery, and an impersonal, dramatic tone.7.John Steinbeck' s theme was usually that simple human virtues such as kindness andfair treatment were far superior to official hard-heartedness, or the dehumanizing cruelty of exploiters for their own commercial advantage.8. Short-lived, the Imagist movement failed to exert a tremendous influence on modernpoetry.9. Robert Frost won four Nobel Prizes in his life.10.In his novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald had revealed the stridency of an age of glitteringinnocence, he had portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of love, splendor and fulfilled desires.11.Of Plymouth Plantation was written by William Bradford.12.Realists thought highly of individual status and role in the world. The romanticistspreferred the innate or intuitive perception by the heart of man. They thought that man was essentially of goodwill, only the civilized society made him degenerate.They pointed out, the means to uproot evils and to save mankind was habits, and to return to “natural primitive state”.13.Deists believed in a Creator God, but rejected providence(Godly direction) andrevelation (divine will or Godly "truth")in favor of reason.14..President Lincoln praised Anne Bradstreet as “the little woman who wrote the bookthat made this great war.”15.Edgar Allan Poe wrote two poems both entitled “ To Helen”.16.The thinking of Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau also greatly influenced the activethinking of Americans who became increasingly concerned with the possibility of building a government. Locke and Rousseau represented the impulse for a Jeffersonian democracy, and Hobbes represented the point of view, often expressed by Hamilton, of a strong central government.17.Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong to the school of“Beat Generation”.18.F. Scott Fitzgerald is called the leader and poet laureate of the Jazz Age who wrote thenovels of the Jazz Age.19.Yoknapatawpha saga is a name for John Steinbeck’s novels.” is a word Bryant borrowed from Greek meaning “meditation on death”. V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage OneLo! in you brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy-Land!Questions:1. This is the last stanza of a poem “To Helen”. Its writer is____________________.(1%)2. With whom is Helen associated in this stanza? (1%)3. How to appreciate the beauty of this poem? (3%)Passage 2I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the differenceQuestions:1. Who is the writer of this poem? (1%)2. What is the title of this poem? (1%)3. What kind of feeling does this stanza show? (3%)4. How do you appreciate this poem? (3%)Passage 3I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it byexperience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God.Questions:1. This passage is taken from a famous work entitled _________ . (1%)2. The author of the work is____________ . (1%)3.List by yourself at least five reasons that the author gives for going to live in thewoods. (5%)Passage 4But, on one side of the portal（⼊⼝），and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.Questions:1.This part is from the novel , written by . (2%)2.What does “the wild rose bush” symbolize according to your opinion? (5%) Passage 5Often I think of the beautiful townThat is seated by the sea;Often in thought go up and downThe pleasant streets of that dear old town,And my youth comes back to me.And a verse of a Lapland songIs haunting my memory still:"A boy's will is the wind's will,And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." Questions:1.The stanza is taken from the poem________________?(1%)2.The author of the poem is____________ . (1%)3.The seventh line in each Stanza of this poem contains a key word, usually a verb, which sums up the feeling established in the stanza. What is the verb and what kind feeling that it conveys?(4%)Passage 6Thou hast an house on high erect,Framed by that mighty Architect,With glory richly furnished,Stands permanent though this be fled.It’s purchased and paid for tooBy Him who hath enough to do.Questions:1.This stanza is taken from the poem__________________________by____________.(2%)2.What is one’s real house according to the poet? (5%)VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%)1. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. （10%）2. Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death”.（10%）3. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance.（10%）《美国⽂学》期末考试试卷B卷答案暨评分标准适⽤班级060511-3 考试时间120 分钟Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)1.Benjamin Franklin2.Nathaniel Hawthorne3.Edgar Allan Poe4.Willa Cather5.Sinclair Lewis6.Tennessee Williams7.Stephen Crane8.Ernest Hemingway9.Jack London10.Eugene O’Neill11.Thomas Paine12.Washington Irving13.Henry David Thoreau14.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15.Harriet Beecher Stowe16.Mark Twin17.Theodore Dreiser18.T.S. Eliot19.Ernest Hemingway20.F. Scott FitzgeraldⅡ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%)1.Edgar Allan Poe2.Mark Twain3.Imagism4.The Great Gatsby5.Sinclair Lewis6.John Smith7.Ezra Pound8.Walt Whitman9.William Cullen Bryant10.Picaresque novelⅢ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (2*15=30%)IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage 11.Edgar Allan Poe (1)2.Psyche (1)3.The beauty of form. （diction，rhyme and rhythm，rhetorical devices.）The beauty of content. (3)Passage 21.Robert Frost(1)2."Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"(1)3.This poem is written in classic five-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-a-b and conversational rhythm. The poem seems to be about the poet, walking in the woods in autumn, choosing which road he should follow on his walk. In reality, it concerns the important decisions which one must make in life, when one must give up one desirable thing in order to possess another. Then, whatever the outcome, one must accept the consequences of one' s choice for it is not possible to go back and have another chance to choose differently.4.In the poem, the poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which road to take, because they are both pretty. In the end, he follows the one which seems to have fewer travelers on it. Symbolically, he chose to follow an unusual, solitary life; perhaps he was speaking of his choice to become a poet rather than some commoner profession. But he always remembers the road which he might have taken, and which would have given him a different kind of life.Passage 31.Walden (1)2.Henry David Thoreau (1)3.Find the answer from the passage. (5)Passage 41.The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne.(2)2.life and liberty.(2)Passage 51.My Lost Youth.(1)2.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1)3.“haunting" sums up the feeling that was begun earlier with "Often in thought"and "comes back to me" .(3)Passage 61.Upon the Burning of Our House, Anne Bradstreet.(2)2.One's real house is in heaven, built by the great architect, God. (2)VI. Choose TWO of the three passages and comment on them. (20%)1. Analyze Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. （10%）2. Analyze Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death”.（10%）3. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance.（10%）The score is given to the theme, (7) content (6) and writing style(7) of the work chosen.。

《英美文学》期末考试试卷附答案B卷

《英美文学》期末考试试卷附答案B卷一、单项选择题(70 points in all,2 for each)1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.A. 27B. 38C.47D. 522. john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last ______.A. romancesB. dramasC. great poemsD. ballads3. The novels of ______ are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower —class people.A. John MiltonB. Daniel DefoeC. Henry FieldingD. Jonathan Swift4. The work ranked by many critics as William Wordswoth’s greatest work was ______.A. Lyrical BalladsB. The PreludeC. Poems in Two VolumesD. The Excursion5. The author of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is ______.A. Daniel DefoeB. Johathan SwiftC. Henry FieldingD. William Blake6. The works of ______ are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle —class women, particularly governess.*A. Charlotte BronteB. D.H. LawrenceC. Thomas HardyD. Jane Austen7. All of the following writings are created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT ______.A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. ”B. “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Septemer 3, 1802. ”C. “The Solitary Reaper. ”D. “The Chimney Sweeper. ”8. The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is ______.A. A Tale of a TubB. The Battle of the BooksC. A Modest ProposalD. Gulliver's Travels9 “If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”comes from Shelly’s ______.A. “To a Skylark”B. “Adonais”C. “Ode to Liberty”D. “Ode to the West Wind”10. In Jane Austen' s first novel ______, she tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.A. Pride and PrejudiceB. Sense and SensibilityC. EmmaD. Persuasion11. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest ______ writers of the Victorian Age.A. romanticB. modernistC. socialistD. critical realist12. Charlotte Bronte' s most autobiographical work, ______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.A. Jane EyreB. ShirleyC. VilletteD. The Professor13. William Wordsworth' s theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people. The preface to the second edition of ______ acts as a manifesto for the new school and sets forth his own critical creed.A. Lyrical BalladsB. The PreludeC. Poems in Two VolumsD. The Excursion14. George Bernard Shaw' s play ______ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.*A. Widowers’HousesB. Too True to Be GoodC. Mrs. Warren' s ProfessionD. Candida15. Eliot' s most important single poem ______, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.A. The Hollow MenB. The Waste LandC. Prurrock and Other ObservationsD. Poems 1909-2516. D. wrence’s autobiographical novel, ______ shows the conflict between the earthy, coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined, strong —willed and up —climbing mother.A. Sons and LoversB. The White PeacockC. The TrespasserD. The Rainbow17. “To be, or not to be —that is the question; /Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer./The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them?”These words are from ______.A. King LearB. RomeoC. AntonioD. Hamlet18. John Milton’s last important work, ______ is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lydidas19. The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is ______.A. John MiltonB. Daniel DefoeC. Henry FieldingD. Jonathan Swift20. Drapier is the pseudonym of ______.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Daniel DefoeC. Henry FieldingD. William Blake21. One of Dickens' later works, ______ in which he presents a criticism of the governmental branches which run an indefinite procedure of management of affairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.A. Bleak HouseB. Little DorritC. Hard TimesD. A Tale of Two Cities22. In the second part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in ______.A. BrobdingnagB. LilliputC. Flying IslandD. Houyhnhnm23. Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories, which include ______ and mythological and biblical allusions.A. symbolismB. free indirect speechC. contrastD. dialogue24. Ernest Hemingway, had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code, known as “______,”which is actually an attitude towards life.A. facing the realityB. grace under pressureC. honesty with benevolenceD. security coming first25. The Blithedale Romance is a novel written by Hawthorne to reveal his own experience on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a ______ novelist.A. naturalistB. imagistC. psychologicalD. feminist26. Theodore Dreiser' s focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th century in his work ______.A. The GeniusB. An American TragedyC. Dreiser Looks at RussiaD. “Trilogy of Desire”27. Emily Dickinson frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader, and ______ to vivify some abstract ideas.A. imagesB. metaphorC. symbolsD. personification28. In his later works, Melville becomes more reconciled with the ______, in which he admits, one must live by rules.A. womenB. world of manC. familyD. politicians29. Walt Whitman' s ______ has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention in America.A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Leaves of GrassC. A Passage to IndiaD. Rip Van Winkle30. Mark Twain’s full literary career began to blossom in 1869 with a travel book ______, an account of American tourists in Europe.A. Innocents AbroadB. The Portrait of A LadyC. The Grapes of WrathD. The Great Gatsby31. With the development of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the ______ approach, Henry James' s importance, as well as his wide influence as a novelist and critic, has been all the more conspicuous.A. deconstructionB. romanticC. FreudianD. analytic32. Emily Dickinson addresses the issues that concern the whole human beings in her poems, which include religion, death, ______, love, and nature.A. ImmortalityB. wealthC. powerD. politics33. In Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser expressed his ______ pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.A. romanticB. realisticC. naturalisticD. modernistic34. Profound ideas in Robert Frost's poems are delivered under the disguise of ______.A. the plain language and the simple formB. the vivid descriptionsC. metaphorsD. the complicated narration35. In ______ Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.A. The Green Hills of AfricaB. Death in the AfternoonC. The Snows of KilimanjaroD. To Have and Have Not二、名词解释（共3小题，每小题10分，共30分）1.迷茫的一代（Lost Generation）2. 启蒙运动（Enlightenment Movement）3. 英国浪漫主义（England Romanticism）英美文学参考答案：1-5. BCCBC 6-10. BDDDB 11-15. DAACB 16-20. ADABA21-25. BAABC 26-30. DDBBA 31-35. AABAB二、名词解释2.迷茫的一代（Lost Generation）The Lost Generation refers to the disillusioned intellectuals and artists of the years following the First World War, who rebelled against former ideals and values but could replace them only by despair or cynical hedonism.2. 启蒙运动（Enlightenment Movement）The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive movement, which flourished in France and swept the whole Western Europe at the time. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance from the 14th to the 17th century. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas. The eighteenth century marked the beginning of an intellectual movement in Europe known as the Enlightenment Movement.3. 英国浪漫主义（England Romanticism）A movement that flourished in literature,philosophy,music,and art in western culture during most of the19th century,beginning as revolt against classicism.Romanticism gave primary concern to passion emotion,and natural beauty.The English Romantic Period is an age of poetry.。

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《美国文学》期末考试试卷（B卷）1.Poor Richard’s Almanac ( )2.The House of the Seven Gables ( )3.“Raven”( )4.My Antonia ( )5.Babbitt ( )6.A Streetcar Named Desire ( )7.Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( )8.A Farewell to Arms ( )9.The Call of the Wild ( )10.Long Day's Journey into Night ( )mon Sense ( )12. “Rip Van Winkle”( )13. Walden( )14. The Song of Hiawatha( )15. Uncle Tom’s Cabin( )16.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( )17.Sister Carrie( )18.The Waste Land( )19. A Farewell to Arms( )20.The Great Gatsby( )1.defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty.2.While working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Samuel LanghorneClemens adopted the pseudonym , the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning two fathoms.3.Ezra Pound initiated a campaign for , which emphasized the directtreatment of an object or situation. He also advocated the language of common speech, but always the exact word.4.Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in hismasterpiece novel _________.5.is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for hisvigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.6.The first of American literature was not written by an American, but by___________________, a British captain, who thus became the first American writer.7._________________ has been considered the “Father of modern American Poetry.\8._______________________was a great democratic poet. He is also the great poet touse the form of free verse.9._____________________is the first American lyric poet.10._______________________is also called novel of the road, it strings the incidentson the line of the hero’s travel.Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (30%)1. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment, _______________ was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution2. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau3. The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in_______.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest4. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman5. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. The Rise of Silas Lapham6. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men7. Melville’s ____________________ is an encyclopedia of everything, history,philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.A. The Old Man and the SeaB. Moby DickC. White JacketD. Billy Budd8. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. Thiswas ___________.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher9. The main theme of _______________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo thatrepresentation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry James’B. William Dean Howells’C. Mark Twain’sD. O. Henry’s10. ___________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD. E. E. Cummings11. With William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain active on the scene,_______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism12. Ezra Pound's long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poemsloosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab13. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a revolutionin literary style and language.A. Gertrude SteinB. Ezra PoundC. James JoyceD. all of the above14. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from theirfarm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.A. Of Mice and MenB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Great GatsbyD. For Whom the Bell Tolls15. The two areas on which the modem American writers concentrated their criticismwere the failures of American society and ___________ .A. the failure of communication among AmericansB. the economic depressionC. the extreme prosperity of AmericaD. the paradise of New LandIV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (10%)1. All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life.2. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about love and religion.3.The First World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment.4. Hemingway’s works have sometimes been read as an essentially negative commentary on a modern world filled with sterility, failure, and death.5.Mark Twain’s region was the Deep South, with its bitter history of slavery, civil war and destruction.6. Ernest Hemingway developed a spare, tight, reportorial prose based on simple sentence structure and using a restricted vocabulary, precise imagery, and an impersonal, dramatic tone.7.John Steinbeck' s theme was usually that simple human virtues such as kindness and fair treatment were far superior to official hard-heartedness, or the dehumanizing cruelty of exploiters for their own commercial advantage.8. Short-lived, the Imagist movement failed to exert a tremendous influence on modern poetry.9. Robert Frost won four Nobel Prizes in his life.10.In his novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald had revealed the stridency of an age of glittering innocence, he had portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of love, splendor and fulfilled desires.11.Of Plymouth Plantation was written by William Bradford.12.Realists thought highly of individual status and role in the world. The romanticists preferred the innate or intuitive perception by the heart of man. They thought that man was essentially of goodwill, only the civilized society made him degenerate. They pointed out, the means to uproot evils and to save mankind was habits, and to return to “natural primitive state”.13.Deists believed in a Creator God, but rejected providence(Godly direction) and revelation (divine will or Godly "truth")in favor of reason.14..President Lincoln praised Anne Bradstreet as “the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”15.Edgar Allan Poe wrote two poems both entitled “ To Helen”.16.The thinking of Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau also greatly influenced the activethinking of Americans who became increasingly concerned with the possibility of building a government. Locke and Rousseau represented the impulse for a Jeffersonian democracy, and Hobbes represented the point of view, often expressed by Hamilton, of a strong central government.17.Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong to the school of “Beat Generation”.18.F. Scott Fitzgerald is called the leader and poet laureate of the Jazz Age who wrote the novels of the Jazz Age.19.Yoknapatawpha saga is a name for John Steinbeck’s novels.20.“Thanatopsis” is a word Bryant borrowed from Greek meaning “meditation on death”. V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage OneLo! in you brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy-Land!Questions:1.This is the last stanza of a poem “To Helen”. Its writer is _________.(1%)2. With whom is Helen associated in this stanza? (1%)3. How to appreciate the beauty of this poem? (3%)Passage 2I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the differenceQuestions:1. Who is the writer of this poem? (1%)2. What is the title of this poem? (1%)3. What kind of feeling does this stanza show? (3%)4. How do you appreciate this poem? (3%)Passage 3I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it byexperience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God. Questions:1. This passage is taken from a famous work entitled _________ . (1%)2. The author of the work is____________ . (1%)3.List by yourself at least five reasons that the author gives for going to live in thewoods. (5%)Passage 4But, on one side of the portal（入口），and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.Questions:1.This part is from the novel , written by . (2%)2.What does “the wild rose bush” symbolize according to your opinion? (5%)Passage 5Often I think of the beautiful townThat is seated by the sea;Often in thought go up and downThe pleasant streets of that dear old town,And my youth comes back to me.And a verse of a Lapland songIs haunting my memory still:"A boy's will is the wind's will,And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." Questions:1.The stanza is taken from the poem______?(1%)2.The author of the poem is_____ . (1%)3.The seventh line in each Stanza of this poem contains a key word, usually averb, which sums up the feeling established in the stanza. What is the verb andwhat kind feeling that it conveys?(4%)Passage 6Thou hast an house on high erect,Framed by that mighty Architect,With glory richly furnished,Stands permanent though this be fled.It’s purchased and paid for tooBy Him who hath enough to do.Questions:1.This stanza is taken from the poem _______by_______.(2%)2.What is one’s real house according to the poet? (5%)VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%)1.Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. （10%）2.Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death”.（10%）3.Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance.（10%）《美国文学》期末考试试卷B卷答案暨评分标准Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)1.Benjamin Franklin2.Nathaniel Hawthorne3.Edgar Allan Poe4.Willa Cather5.Sinclair Lewis6.Tennessee Williams7.Stephen Crane8.Ernest Hemingway9.Jack London10.Eugene O’Neill11.Thomas Paine12.Washington Irving13.Henry David Thoreau14.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15.Harriet Beecher Stowe16.Mark Twin17.Theodore Dreiser18.T.S. Eliot19.Ernest Hemingway20.F. Scott FitzgeraldⅡ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%)1.Edgar Allan Poe2.Mark Twain3.Imagism4.The Great Gatsby5.Sinclair Lewis6.John Smith7.Ezra Pound8.Walt Whitman9.William Cullen Bryant10.Picaresque novelⅢ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (2*15=30%)IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage 11.Edgar Allan Poe (1)2.Psyche (1)3.The beauty of form. （diction，rhyme and rhythm，rhetorical devices.）The beauty of content. (3)Passage 21.Robert Frost(1)2."Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"(1)3.This poem is written in classic five-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-a-b and conversational rhythm. The poem seems to be about the poet, walking in the woods in autumn, choosing which road he should follow on his walk. In reality, it concerns the important decisions which one must make in life, when one must give up one desirable thing in order to possess another. Then, whatever the outcome, one must accept the consequences of one' s choice for it is not possible to go back and have another chance to choose differently.4.In the poem, the poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which road to take, because they are both pretty. In the end, he follows the one which seems to have fewer travelers on it. Symbolically, he chose to follow an unusual, solitary life; perhaps he was speaking of his choice to become a poet rather than some commoner profession. But he always remembers the road which he might have taken, and which would have given him a different kind of life.Passage 3Walden (1)Henry David Thoreau (1)Find the answer from the passage. (5)Passage 41.The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne.(2)2.life and liberty.(2)Passage 51.My Lost Youth.(1)2.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1)3.“haunting" sums up the feeling that was begun earlier with "Often in thought "and "comes back to me" .(3)Passage 61.Upon the Burning of Our House, Anne Bradstreet.(2)2.One's real house is in heaven, built by the great architect, God. (2)VI. Choose TWO of the three passages and comment on them. (20%)1. Analyze Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. （10%）2. Analyze Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death”.（10%）3. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance.（10%）The score is given to the theme, (7) content (6) and writing style(7) of the work chosen.。

英美文学期末复习题

英美文学期末复习题英美文学是开放英语专科的选修课。

新版教学计划中没有此课，目前仍有一部分较早时间入学的学生选修此课。

英美文学课程6学分，分两学期完成，两学期期末分别进行考试。

分别为英美文学（1）、英美文学（2）。

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I. Choose the one that would best complete the statement below. (30 points, 2 points each) 1. ______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. A. Beowulf B. The Canterbury TalesC. Don JuanD. Paradise Lost 2. John Dryden called ______ the father of English poetry. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Edmund Spencer C. John Milton D. John Donne 3. The Merchant of V enice is a ________. A. tragedy B. comedy C. history play D. tragicomedy 4. Hamlet faces the dilemma between ______. A. action and mind B. dream and reality C. money and power D. hate and love 5. John Milton ’s masterpiece is his ______. A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise RegainedC. Samson Agonistes D. Areopagitica 6. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depict mostly ______. A. the frontier life B. The sea adventures C. the Puritan community D. New England landscape 7. The novel ________ is not written by Henry James. A. The Ambassadors B. The Wings of the DoveC. The Bostonians D. The Mysterious Stranger8. In the 1920s decade, O ’Neill established an international reputation with such plays as ______. A. The Emperor JonesB. Anna ChristieC. The Hairy ApeD. all of the above 9. Fitzgerald ’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in ______ society. A. the middle-class B. the upper-class C. the lower-middle-class D. the working-class 10. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques techniques Faulkner Faulkner Faulkner used used used to to to construct construct construct his his his stories stories stories include include include ______, ______, ______, symbolism symbolism symbolism and and and mythological mythological and biblical allusions. A. impressionism B. expressionism C. multiple points of view D. first person point of view 11. The following are Shakespeare ’s greatest tragedies except __________. A. HamletB. OthelloC. Twelfth NightD. King Lear12. __________ is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed killed”” by the winter in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time. A. The AmericanB. The Europeans C. Daisy Miller D. The Portrait of A lady13. John Donne is the leading figure of ________. A. Lake Poets B. Graveyard School C. Satanic Poets D. Metaphysical School 14. In Jane Austen ’s novels, life and human nature are exposed __________________. A. at moments of crisis B. during the battles C. in the most trivial incidents of everyday D. through the traveling 15. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except ________. A. William Faulkner B. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. John Steinbeck D. Ernest Hemingway II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase. (30 points, 2 points each)16. Edmund Spenser ’s masterpiece is _________, a great poem of its age. 17. Marlowe ’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected _________ and made it the principle medium of English drama. 18. As a lexicographer, Samuel Johnson distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary by an Englishman: _________, a gigantic task which Johnson undertook single-handedly and finished in over seven years. 19. Pope ’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in _________. is a didactic poem written in _________. 20. _________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel ” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. 21. Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. This particular concern about the local character of a region came about as _____________, a unique variation of American literary realism. 22. Pound was the leader of a new movement in Poetry which he called “__________________”” movement. 23. Dreiser broke away form the genteel tradition of literature and dramatized the life in a very _________ way 24. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human _________, especially as an explanation of sexual desire. 25. Two major figures of black fiction in America are ________ and Ralph Ellison. 26. 26. Apart Apart Apart from from from Darwinism, Darwinism, Darwinism, the the the two two two thinkers thinkers thinkers whose whose whose ideas ideas ideas had had had the the the greatest greatest greatest impact impact impact on on on the the Modernism period were the German ________ and the Austrian Sigmund Freud. 27. With the Norman Conquest starts the ________ Period in English Literature. 28. Emily Bronte ’s masterpiece is ___________ 29. Ulysses gives an account of man ’s life during one day in ________30. In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group of young novelists and playwrights with lower-middle-class or working class background, they demonstrated a particular disillusion disillusion over over over the the the depressing depressing depressing situation situation situation in in in Britain Britain Britain and and and launched launched launched a a a bitter bitter bitter protest protest protest against against against the the outmoded social and political values in their society. They were known as “______________________________””. III. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it. (18 points, 6 points each)31． “Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow ’st; Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”32. 32. His His His father father father picked picked picked the the the baby baby baby up up up and and and slapped slapped slapped it it it to to to make make make it it it breathe breathe breathe and and and handed handed handed it it it to to to the the the old old woman. “See, it’s a boy, Nick,” he said. “How do you like being an internee?” Nick said, “All right.” He was looking away so as not to see what his father was doing. 33. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;”IV IV. . Give brief answers to the following questions. (22 points, 11 points each)34. Why do we say Hawthorne is a master of symbolism? Give at least two examples of symbols from The Scarlet Letter . . 35. Why is Thomas Hardy often regarded as a transitional writer? 期末复习题答案I ．1 A 2 A 3 B 4 A 5 A 6.D 7.D 8. D 9. B 10. C 11 C 12 C 13 D 14 C 15 C II ．16. The Faerie Queene 17. the blank verse 18. A Dictionary of the English Language 19. 19. heroic heroic heroic couplets couplets 20. 20. Henry Henry Henry Fielding Fielding 21. 21. local local local colorism colorism 22. 22. Imagist Imagist 23. 23. realistic realistic 24. 24. bestiality bestiality 25. 25. Richard Richard Richard Wright Wright 26. 26. Karl Karl Karl Marx Marx 27. 27. Medieval Medieval 28. 28. Wuthering Wuthering Heights 29. Dublin 30. The Angry Young Man III ．31. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18. A nice summer ’s day is usually transient, but the beauty in poetry can last forever. 32. This is from “Indian Camp,” one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of InOur Time by Ernest Hemingway. Nick watches his father deliver an Indian woman of a baby by Caesarian section. This incident brings brings the the the boy boy boy into into into contact contact contact with with with something something something that that that is is is perplexing perplexing perplexing and and and unpleasant, unpleasant, unpleasant, and and and is is is actually actually Nick Nick’’s initiation into the pain and violence of birth and death. 33．Robert Lee Frost, “The Road not Taken ”. The speaker tells us how the course of his life was determined when he came upon two roads that diverged in a wood. IV ．34. 34. Hawthorne Hawthorne Hawthorne is is is a a a master master master of of of symbolism, symbolism, symbolism, which which which he he he took took took from from from the the the Puritan Puritan Puritan tradition tradition tradition and and bequeathed to American literature in a revivified form. The symbol can be found everywhere in his writing, and his masterpiece provides the most conclusive proof. By using Pearl as a thematic symbol, Hawthorne emphasizes the consequence the sin of adultery has brought to the community and people living in that community. With the scarlet scarlet Letter Letter Letter A A A as as as the the the biggest biggest biggest symbol symbol symbol of of of all, all, all, Hawthorne Hawthorne Hawthorne proves proves proves himself himself himself to to to be be be one one one of of of the the the best best symbolists. symbolists. As As As a a a key key key to to to the the the whole whole whole novel, novel, novel, the the the letter letter letter A A A takes takes takes on on on different different different layers layers layers of of of symbolic symbolic meanings as the plot develops, but people come up with different interpretations and they do not know which one is definite. The scarlet letter A is ambiguous. And the ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of Hawthorne ’s art. 35. Hardy is regarded as a transitional writer not only because he lived at the turn of the century, but more importantly because there is the influence on him from both. He accepted the ideas of Darwin, and was influenced by Spencer, both of which were great thinkers of his time. But in his Wessex novels, there is an apparent nostalgic touch of the primitive rural life, which was gradually disappearing as England marched into an industrial country. So, on the one hand, there is bitter criticism of his towards the social reality in the Victorian age, on the other hand, the belief that man ’s fate is predeterminedly tragic colours mysteriously his characters characters who who who are are are always always always impotent impotent impotent before before before the the the half-blind half-blind half-blind and and and supernatural supernatural supernatural force. force. force. The The The conflicts conflicts between old and new, between the rural value and the utilitarian commercialism, between social moral and human passion are prints of longings for some better past while living in modern times. 。

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On the one hand, he represents her as Helen of Troy–the quintessence of physical beauty–at the beginning of the poem. On the other, he represents her as Psyche–the quintessence of soulful beauty–at the end of the poem. 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On the one hand, he represents her as Helen of Troy–the quintessence of physical beauty–at the beginning of the poem. On the other, he represents her as Psyche–the quintessence of soulful beauty–at the end of the poem. In Greek, psyche means soul.作家Edgar Allan Poe选择题1/the features of Puritans(1p4)1poor and rich2hold extreme opinion3opposit pleaure and arts4life is disciplined and hard2/Who exemplified the secular ideals of the American Enlightenment?(1p18) Benjamin Franklin3/Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the one book from which ―all modern American literature comes.‖ Who said that?(2p49)Ernest Hemingway4/What are the issues the Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues in the American literary history?1. Moral enthusiasm2. individualism and intuitive perception3.nature4. rich in mystic color.5. Solitude (Escapism)6. Satisfaction of desire7. Outcasts8. Idealist philosophy9. Delight in self-analysis10. The sublime, the grotesque, the picturesque, and the beautiful with a touch of strangeness are all valued11 spontaneity5/What is Cooper’s story of the ―frontier saga‖ called?(1p105) Leatherstocking T ales6/Henry David Thoreau’s masterpiece is ?(1p175)Walden7/Which essay is regarded as an unofficial manifesto for the ―Transcendental Club‖?Nature8/What does Emerson call the ultimate unity and intuitive self on which based his religion?Oversoul9/Major character in The Scarlet Letter. (1P200)Hester Prynne , Roger Chillingworth , Arthur Dimmesdale .Pearl10/Moby Dick may symbolize?(1p216)丰富但无意义11/Which works concerns most concentratedly about the Calvinistic view of original sin?the Arch-Principles12/The literary period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as?The Literature of Romanticism13/The first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity in the 1860s was? (p.6)Bret Harte14/What is the name for poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme? Free verse15Major themes of Emily Dickinson’s poetry?(2p17)Love and loverNatureSuccessfailureWho describes realism as ―nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material.‖?(2p5)William Dean HowellsThe dominant figure of the Realistic Period.William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and Henry James.What does Ahab imply as the name of the Captain in the Pequod?the incarnation of evil and a fated nemesis/Who is Ahab in the Bible?An immoral King作家作品1.Benjamin Franklin : Autobiography，poor Richard2.Thomas Paine : Common Sense, the Crisis3.James Cooper : The Spy, he Pilot, The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans4.Walter Whitman : Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself,.5.Emily Dickinson :(诗没有题目，以诗的第一句话为题目)6.Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Life on the Mississippi , Jumping Frog of Calaveras County7.Henry Jame s : The Turn of the Screw , The Wings of the Dove , The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The American , Daisy Miller , The Portrait of a Lady , The Art of Fiction.8.Jack London : The Call of the Wild , The Sea Wolf , White Fang , Martin Eden9.Theodore Dreiser :Sister Carrie，Trilogy of Desire: The Financier，An American Tragedy．10.Ezra Pound : Cantos，Hugh Selwyn Mauberley．11.Robert Frost : North of Boston,Ice and Fire,The road not taken12.Thomas Stearns Eliot : The Wasteland13.F. Scott Fitzgerald : This Side of Paradise, The Last Tycoon, Tender Is the Night.14.Ernest Hemingway : A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea .15.William Faulkner : The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom,Absalom! The Hamlet, Go Down,Moses.16.John Stenbeck:the grapes of wrath17.Ezra Pound:the Cantos,in a Station of the Metro18.Jefferon:the declaration of IndependenceThe Bay Psalm Book (1640), the first publication in British AmericaThe first American Writer: Captain John Smith。

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The EuropeansC. Daisy MillerD. The Portrait of A lady13. John Donne is the leading figure of ________.A. Lake PoetsB. Graveyard SchoolC. Satanic PoetsD. Metaphysical School14. In Jane Austen’s novels, life and human nature are exposed __________________.A. at moments of crisisB. during the battlesC. in the most trivial incidents of everydayD. through the traveling15. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except ________.A. William FaulknerB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. John SteinbeckD. Ernest HemingwayII. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase. (30 points, 2points each)16. Edmund Spenser’s masterpiece is _________, a great poem of its age.17. Marlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected _________ and made it the principle medium of English drama.18. As a lexicographer, Samuel Johnson distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary by an Englishman: _________, a gigantic task which Johnson undertook single-handedly and finished in over seven years.19. Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in _________.20. _________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the Eng lish Novel” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.21. Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. This particular concern about the local character of a region came about as _____________, a unique variation of American literary realism.22. Pound was the leader of a new movement in Poetry which he called “_________” movement.23. Dreiser broke away form the genteel tradition of literature and dramatized the life in a very _________ way24. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human _________, especially as an explanation of sexual desire.25. Two major figures of black fiction in America are ________and Ralph Ellison.26. Apart from Darwinism, the two thinkers whose ideas had the greatest impact on the Modernism period were the German ________ and the Austrian Sigmund Freud.27. With the Norman Conquest starts the ________ Period in English Literature.28. Emily Bronte’s masterpiece is ___________29.Ulysses gives an account of man’s life during one day in ________30. In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group of young novelists and playwrights with lower-middle-classor working class background, they demonstrated a particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest against the outmoded social and political values in their society. They were known as “_______________”.III. 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This incident brings the boy into contact with something that is perplexing and unpleasant, and is actually Nick’s initiation into the pain and violence of birth and death.33．Robert Lee Frost, “The Road not Taken”.The speaker tells us how the course of his life wasdetermined when he came upon two roads that diverged in a wood.IV．34. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism, which he took from the Puritan tradition and bequeathed to American literature in a revivified form.The symbol can be found everywhere in his writing, and his masterpiece provides the most conclusive proof. By using Pearl as a thematic symbol, Hawthorne emphasizes the consequence the sin of adultery has brought to the community and people living in that community. With the scarlet Letter A as the biggest symbol of all, Hawthorne proves himself to be one of the best symbolists. As a key to the whole novel, the letter A takes on different layers of symbolic meanings as the plot develops, but people come up with different interpretations and they do not know which one is definite. The scarlet letter A is ambiguous. And the ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of Hawthorne’s art.35. Hardy is regarded as a transitional writer not only because he lived at the turn of the century, but more importantly because there is the influence on him from both.He accepted the ideas of Darwin, and was influenced by Spencer, both of which were great thinkers of his time. But in his Wessex novels, there is an apparent nostalgic touch of the primitive rural life, which was gradually disappearing as England marched into an industrial country.So, on the one hand, there is bitter criticism of his towards the social reality in the Victorian age, on the other hand, the belief that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic colours mysteriously his characters who are always impotent before the half-blind and supernatural force. The conflicts between old andnew, between the rural value and the utilitarian commercialism, between social moral and human passion are prints of longings for some better past while living in modern times.。

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答案：《麦克白》2. 《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家________创作的一部以20世纪20年代的纽约为背景的小说。

答案：F·司各特·菲茨杰拉德3. 英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯与________共同发起了浪漫主义诗歌运动。

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答案：《草叶集》5. 英国现代主义诗人T.S.艾略特的代表作《荒原》是一首________诗。

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( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature.9. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and Americanconsciousness.10. ( ) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached itsgreatest heights.II. Fill in the blanks. (20 x 1’=20’)11. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was___________.12. The War of Independence lasted eight years till__________.13. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________has been regarded as "America's Declaration ofIntellectual Independence". It called on American writers to write about America in a waypeculiarly American.14. The American ___________ writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and describedthe integrity of human character reacting under various circumstances and pictured the pioneers ofthe Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles of the working class. The leading figures were____________, ____________, ____________, ____________, etc.15. No period in American history is more eventful than that between the two world wars. Theliterary features of the time can be seen in the writings of those ________ writers as Ezra Pound,and the writers of the Lost Generation as ___________.16. Two features of English Renaissance are the curiosity for ___________ and the interest in theactivities of _____________________.17. Shakespear’e s earliest great success in tragedy is ____________, a play of youth and love, withthe famous balcony scene.18. There are three types of poets in 17th century English literature. They are Puritan poets,___________ poets and ______________ poets.19. 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大四美国文学期末考型及例大四美国文学期末考型及例：1./60 分（ 40 道，20 个）2.名解10 分（5 个）3.段配10 分（5 个）4.答20 分（10/2）1．史： Father / poetess⋯2.名作家： Hemingway, Faulkner, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson3．作品： The Wasteland/Moby Dick/Scarlet Letter1.a)（ 40 个， 40 分）1.At the age of reason and revolution, Americans were influenced by theEuropean movement called the ________.A. Chartist MovementB. Romanticist MovementC. Enlightenment MovementD. Modernist Movement2.Which is NOT connected to Benjamin Franklin? ________A.He was born in a poor family.B.He was a pious puritan.C.He was phrased as“Jack of all trades”.D.He was a master of diplomacy.3.Ernest Hemingway is noted for the following EXCEPT ________.A.Lost GenerationB.Iceberg theoryC.American DreamD.Code Heroes4.Which character is NOT from The Scarlet Letter? ________A.Hester PrynneB.Roger ChillingworthC.Captain AhabD.Pearl5.Jack London’s semi-biographical novel ________well presents thedisillusionment of American Dream.A.The American TragedyB.The Call of the WildC.Martin EdenD.The Grapes of Wrathb)判断（ 20 个， 20 分）1.Poe’smasterpiece“To Helen”is written to memorize his deceased wife.(F)2.The tone of “Annabel Lee”is optimistic and hopeful. (F)3.Mark Twain's novel Jumping Frog was an artistic failure, but it gave its name tothe America of the postbellum period which it attempts to satirize.(F)4.Sister Carrie ended up in tragedy because she could not control her fate(F).大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题2.名词解释题（5个，10分）1. It refers to t he religious beliefs held by the Puritans, who had intended to“ purif or simplify the religious ritual of the Church of England. They believed in the originalsin and the harsh Day of Doom, although some good people --- the chosen peopleor “ the Elect--- may” be saved. Puritanism)(2.A literary doctrine that called for “ realityand truth ”in the depiction of ordinarylife ．It had originated in France and was very popular in 19th century.Realism)(3.选段配对题（5个，10分）1.Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,Hid in this silent, dull retreat,Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow,Unseen thy little branches greet:No roving foot shall crush thee here,No busy hand provoke a tear.The Wild Honey Suckle (Philip Freneau)2.During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year,when the cloud hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, onhorseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself,as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. Iknow not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense ofinsufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.The Fall of the House of Usher(Edgar Allan Poe)4.问答题（ 10/2， 20 分）1. Transcendentalism(a) Transcendentalism (p56){1}As a moral philosophy, it exalted feeling over reason, individual expression overthe restraints of law and custom. & believed in the transcendence ofthe“oversoul ” {2}A literary movement flourishing in New England from the1830s to the Civil war. It stresses intuitive understanding of God, without the helpof the church and advocated independence of the mind. The representative writersare Emerson and Thoreau.{b} The significance of TranscendentalismTranscendentalism exerted a dominating notion onto the major wirers of the Romanticperiod and its essence has been permanently absorbed into the main stream ofAmerican thought. As a moral philosophy, Transcendentaliststook their ideas from theromantic literature of Europe, from neo-Platonism, from German idealistic philosophyand from the revelations of Oriental mysticism. They spoke for cultural rejuvenation andagainst the materialism of American society. They believed in the transcendence ofthe“Oversoul”, an all-pervading power for goodness from which all things come andof which all things are a part. As a philosophical and literarymovement, Transcendentalism flourished in New England from the 1830’s to the Civil War. Its doctrines found their greatest literary advocated in Emerson, who believed that man was a part of absolute good, and in Thoreau who beheld divinityin the “unspotted innocence”of nature. It was a powerful expression of the intellectual mood of the age, and the ideas it represented have remained a strong influence on great American writers from the days of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman to the present.2. “The Road Not Taken”Symbolic meanings of The Road Not Taken:In this poem, the author uses two roads in the woods to symbolize the choices inthe real life. The author suggests us not being afraid to take a chance, not following the crowd and trying new things. Individualism is highlighted in the poem because the speaker chooses to go his own way, taking the“road less traveled”.Caution is also taken before deciding to take the“road less traveled”, for the speaker takes time to consider the other road.Commitment is symbolized in the poem because the speaker does not havesecond thoughts after making his decision.The last symbolized theme is accepting a challenge. It may be that the road the speaker chooses is less traveled because it represents trials or perils. Such challenges seem to appeal to the speaker.The Road Not TakenThis poem, as many of Frost ’ sbeginspoems,with the observation of nature, as if the poet is a traveler sightseeing in nature. By the end, all the simple words condense into a serious proposition: When anyone in life is confronted with making a choice, in order to possess something worthwhile, he has to give up something which seems as lovely and valuable as the chosen one. Then, whatever follows, he must accept the consequence of his choice for it is not possible for him to return to the beginning and have another chance to choose differently. Frost is asserting that nature is fair and honest to everyone. Thus all the varieties of human destiny result from each person spontaneous capability of making choices.Form : The poem is very regularly structured with 4 classic 5-line stanzas, withthe rhyme scheme “ abaab” and in conversational rhythm.3. The Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby the parody (戏仿 )of American dreamThematically ，the novel is a parody of the American dream as represented by Gatsby’s pursuit for wealth and love ．(1)American Dream(derived the Puritanism) is a popular belief that people can achieve success，whether it is wealth，fame or love through honest hard working ina new world of liberty ，equality，chances and promises． (e.g. Franklin, Obama )(2) It is true that Gatsby had a huge wealth，but it was built up through illegal means —bootlegging. Daisy was the embodiment of love for Gatsby，but the Daisy in Gatsby s’illusion was not the Daisy in reality —— a mindless and spiritless woman only with a beautiful appearance，who retreated to her boring but secure way of life rather than accept the responsibility at the moment of crisis．(3)Like Franklin ， Gatsby also made a time table and a list of“do’s anddon'ts”． But unfortunately he did not know that the time had changed．(4)Therefore, G’s dream is tarnished by his material possessions, much like America is now with the obsession with wealth. In any case, Gatsby would have failed to his idealistic dream inevitably, namely disillusion of American dream.Together with Martin Eden, it well presents the disillusionment of American Dream. Main ideas :Nick Caraway, the narrator decided to leave his family in the Midwest to study bond business in New York．He took a small house at West Egg of Long Island and became a neighbor of Jay Gatsby，a mysterious man of great wealth．He resumed acquaintance with Tom Buchanan and his wife Daisy at a dinner party in their home． There he also met Jordan Baker，an attractive but arrogant young lady．He soon learned that their marriage was not happy and Tom has a mistress，Myrtle ， wife of George Wilson ，a garage owner in the Valley of Ashes．A few days later he was invited to Gatsby’s party. From Gatsby and later from Jordan, Nick learned of the love affair between Daisy and Gatsby before she married Tom．Gatsby then made a request of Nick：to bring Daisy to tea and meet Gatsby． At the reunion Gatsby changed from nervousness to excitement and from excitement to a remote fantasy． At a party Gatsby gave to the Buchanans，Nick and Jordan，Gatsby and Tom had a fierce quarrel over Daisy and Daisy sided with both men in turns．Then Daisy and Gatsby left in Gatsbys car while’ the others followed in Tom’s． On the way Gatsby’s car knocked Myrtle dead and ran away ， but he later told Nick that Daisy was driving at the time of the accident．Myrtle ，thinking Tom was in the car，ran toward it and was hit．Meanwhile Mr ．Wilson traced Gatsby’s car and found Gatsby's house． A few hours later both of them were found dead．Apparently Wilson shot Gatsby and then himself． Although Nick tried to make Gatsby’s funeral respectable，none of his friends came．Only Gatsby’s father appeared，still thinking that his son was a great man． On another occasion Nick met Tom and Daisy and was reluctant to shake hands with them．He already knew that it was Tom who made Wilson believe that Myrtle was Gatsby s’ lover and was run over by Gatsby． Soon Nick went back to his people in the MiddleWest．。

英美文学考试试题

英美文学考试试题一、选择题1、以下哪部作品是威廉·莎士比亚的悲剧代表作？（）A 《仲夏夜之梦》B 《威尼斯商人》C 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》D 《第十二夜》2、简·奥斯汀的小说《傲慢与偏见》中，女主人公伊丽莎白最终与谁结为夫妻？（）A 达西先生B 威克姆先生C 宾利先生D 柯林斯先生3、以下哪位诗人是英国浪漫主义诗歌的代表人物？（）A 华兹华斯B 雪莱C 拜伦D 以上都是4、美国作家海明威的小说《老人与海》中，老渔夫最终捕到的鱼是什么？（）A 金枪鱼B 马林鱼C 鳕鱼D 鲸鱼5、英国作家狄更斯的小说《双城记》，其“双城”指的是哪两座城市？（）A 伦敦和巴黎B 纽约和波士顿C 柏林和慕尼黑D 莫斯科和圣彼得堡二、填空题1、《哈姆雷特》中的经典台词“生存还是毁灭，这是一个值得考虑的问题”反映了主人公_____的内心挣扎。

2、简·奥斯汀的小说以_____为主要题材，展现了当时英国社会的风貌。

3、华兹华斯的诗作《抒情歌谣集》与_____共同开创了英国浪漫主义诗歌的新时代。

4、海明威的“冰山理论”强调小说中只应展现“＿____”，而将“＿____”隐藏在水下。

5、马克·吐温的代表作《汤姆·索亚历险记》和《＿____》，以幽默风趣的语言描绘了美国少年的生活。

三、简答题1、请简要分析《简·爱》中女主人公简·爱的性格特点。

简·爱是一个非常独立自主、自尊自强的女性形象。

她出身贫寒，但却不屈服于命运的安排，始终坚持追求平等和自由。

她具有强烈的自我意识，不依赖他人，勇敢地表达自己的想法和情感。

在爱情面前，她坚守自己的原则，不因为财富和地位而放弃自己的尊严。

同时，她也富有同情心和善良的品质，对待他人真诚友善。

2、简述美国文学中“垮掉的一代”的主要特点。

“垮掉的一代”是 20 世纪 50 年代在美国出现的一个文学流派。

他们对传统的价值观和社会规范表示不满和反抗，追求个性解放和自由。

原题目：英语专业英美文学选读课程期末考试复习题

原题目：英语专业英美文学选读课程期末考试复习题一、选择题（每题5分，共40分）1. 下列哪位作家是19世纪初英国浪漫主义文学的代表人物？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 弗朗西斯·贝金斯·布伯尔C. 爱米莉·勃朗特D. 简·艾尔洛克2. 被誉为“美国民族史诗”的作品是下面哪部？A. 《老人与海》B. 《汤姆·索亚历险记》C. 《伊娃》D. 《飘》3. 以下哪位作家是英国维多利亚时期的代表作家？A. 威廉·莎士比亚B. 查尔斯·狄更斯C. 托马斯·哈代D. 奥斯卡·王尔德4. 被称为“现代英国戏剧之父”的剧作家是下方哪位？A. 卡尔·马克思B. 乔治·肖伯纳C. 亨利·詹姆斯D. 奥斯卡·王尔德5. 以下哪位作家是美国现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 艾米丽·狄金森B. 罗伯特·弗罗斯特C. 弗朗茨·卡夫卡D. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫6. 下列哪本小说以揭示人性之恶而著称？A. 《飘》B. 《1984》C. 《傲慢与偏见》D. 《哈姆雷特》7. 哪位作家被称为“20世纪最重要的英国小说家之一”？A. 威廉·莎士比亚B. 乔治·奥威尔C. 哈珀·李D. 东尼·莫里森8. 以下哪本小说描写了苏格兰高地的历史与风俗？A. 《呼啸山庄》B. 《麦田里的守望者》C. 《钟楼怪人》D. 《华尔街》二、简答题（每题10分，共20分）1. 请简要解释英国维多利亚时期文学的主要特点。

2. 简要介绍美国现代主义文学的主要代表作家及作品。

三、论述题（20分）请从英国儿童文学和美国南方文学的角度分析比较《奥神领地》和《哈利·波特与魔法石》的文学特点和传达的主题。

四、创作题（20分）请根据自己的创作能力和理解，以《失乐园》为题材，写一篇关于对科技革命带来的道德困境和对人类价值的思考的短文。

英美文学史期末考试资料

Comment on WaldenIn 1845, Thoreau decided to conduct an experiment of self-sufficiency by building his own house on the shores of Walden Pond and living off the food he grew on his farm.He sought to reduce his physical needs to a minimum, in order to free himself for study, thought, and observation of nature, himself.Walden can be many things and can be read on more than one level. But it is, first and foremost, a book about man, what he is, and what he should be and must be.Considered one of the all-time great books, Walden is a record of Thoreau's two year experiment of living at Walden Pond. The writer's chief emphasis is on the simplifications and enjoyment of life now. It is regarded as 1. a nature book.2. a do-it-yourself guide to simple life. 3. a satirical criticism of modern life and living. 4. a belletristic achievement 5. a spiritual book. The Scarlet LetterSymbolic meaning of the letter “A” :1.The scarlet letter “A” is the central symbol of the novel. At the beginning it symbolized the sin of Hester—“adultery”, 2.then gradually when Hester became accepted by the community, it stands for Hester’s intelligence and diligence—“able”. 3.At the end of the novel the symbol has evolved to represent the high virtues of Hester Prynne—“angel”. Comments on The Scarlet Letter:1.The theme of the story should be the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin on people. 2.Scarlet Letter is a cultural allegory, in which the author indirectly tells the future of Puritanism.3.Scarlet Letter is a sample in which American Romanticism adapted itself to American Puritanism.(Because of the strong influence of Puritanism in American society, Hawthorne only expressed his ideas on the sin indirectly by employing symbolism.)Symbolism in the novel Moby DickA. the voyage itself is a metaphor for “search and discovery, the search for the ultimate truth of experience.”B. the Pequod is the ship of the American soul and consciousness.C. Moby Dick is a symbol of evil to some, of goodness to others, and of both to still others.D. The whiteness of Moby Dick is a paradoxical color, signifying death and corruption as well as purity, innocence and youth; it represents the final mystery of the universe.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnSetting: unpopulated wildness an a dense forest along Mississippi River Characters:1.Ignorant uneducated black slave Jim2.Uneducated outcast white boy Huck Finn。

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Comments on famous writers
W. Shakespeare (1564-1616)
literary position
The greatest of all English authors, belongs to those rare geniuses of mankind who have become landmarks in the history of world culture. The works of Shakespeare are great landmarks in the history of world culture for he is one of the founders of realism, a master hand at realistic portrayal of human characters and relations.
Life experience
1.Born in 1564 in Straford-on-Avon, Warwickshire.
2.At the age of 7, believed to attend a local grammar school and study there six years.
3.Worked as a school teacher in the countryside and later helped his father do some business.
4.He gradually became acquainted with theatrical performance. 渐渐熟悉戏剧表演。

5.In the year 1586 or 1587, Shakespeare moved to London and worked in theaters. It was in these theaters that he devoted himself to writing plays and poems. He was also a good actor.
6.In 1612, Shakespeare retired from the stage and returned to Straford-on-Avon.
7.Died in 1616
Major Works
During the 22 years of his literary career, he produced 37 plays, two long narrative poems and 154 sonnets.
He is especially famous for his 4 greatest tragedies: Hamlet1601, Othello1604, Macbeth1605 &King Lear1608.
His literary work may be divided into 3 major periods, 1590-1600, 1601-1608, 1609-1612.
Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)
literary position
The last and one of the greatest Victorian novelists.
Life experience
1.Born on June 2nd,1840 in Higher Bockhampton in Dorset. His father Thomas
(d.1892) worked as a stonemason and local builder. His mother Jemima (d.1904) was well-read.
2.His mother educated Thomas until he went to his first school at Bockhampton at age eight. One year later he transferred to a new school in the county town of Dorchester.
3.At the age of 16 Hardy helped his father with the architectural drawings for a restoration of Woodsford Castle. Hardy trained as an architect in Dorchester before moving to London in 1862;
In 1870, Hardy met and fell in love with Emma Lavinia Gifford, whom he married in 1874. Emma dead in 1912. Hardy married his secretary Florence Emily Dugdale in 1914, who was 39 years his junior. Hardy became ill with pleurisy in December 1927 and died on November 27th, 1912.
4.Desperate Remedies is published in 1871
Hardy’s first vo lume of poems, Wessex poems, is published in 1898
Hardy is presented with the order of Merit in 1910
Major Works
Under the Greenwood Tree, 1872《绿林荫下》
A Pair of Blue Eyes, 1873《一双湛蓝的眼睛》
Far from the Madding Crowd, 1874《远离尘嚣》(3部早期作品: 描写英国农村的恬静景象和明朗的田园生活。

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The Return of the Native, 1878 《还乡》(它的出版确立了哈代作为重要作家的地位，也标志着作者开始转向悲剧题材。

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Mayor of the Casterbridge, 1886《卡斯特桥市长》（它展示了一场性格悲剧。

）Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 1891《德伯家的苔丝》
Jude the Obscure, 1895 《无名的裘德》（最著名也是最后两部小说。

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
literary position
He is a great portrayer of child life.
Life experience
1.Born in 1812 at Landport, the second of eight children to John Dickens (1785–1851) and Elizabeth Dickens (1789–1863). His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office.
2. His education was not formal, but he supplemented it with constant reading, particularly of the 18th century novels in his father’s small library.
3.1824 -- his father taken to debtors’ prison; Dickens worked at blacking warehouse.
4.1827 -- Dickens family evicted from home for not paying rent, Charles is pulled out of private school.
5.When Dickens was15, becomes law clerk and free-lance writer.
6.1834 -- Charles takes Boz as pen name, his dad re-arrested for debts.
7.1836 (Dickens was 24) he and Catherine Hogarth got married and one year later, the first “little Dickens” was born and one year after that, baby 2 was born.
8.He gave numerous talks across Europe and in America.
9.He gave 16 public readings in 1858 to raise money for the Hospital for Sick Children.
10.June 8, 1870 -- Dickens, who had been in declining health since 1866, suffered a stroke of apoplexy and died a day later.
Major Works
Dickens wrote 15 major novels in a career spanning 33 years and the most famous books are Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friends.。