文学英语赏析(知识点复习考点归纳总结参考)

文学英语赏析模拟试题(简答)

Reading Comprehension

Read the extracts and give brief answers to the questions below.

Text 1

I tried to sleep; but my heart beat anxiously, my inward tranquility was broken. The clock, far down in the hall, struck two. Just then it seemed my chamber-door was touched, as if fingers had swept the panels in groping a way along the dark gallery outside. I said, ‘Who is there?’ Nothing answered. I was chilled with fear.

All at once I remembered that it might be Pilot, who, when the kitchen door chanced to be left open, not infrequently found his way up to the threshold of Mr Rochester’s chamber: I had seen him lying there myself in the mornings. The idea calmed me somewhat: I lay down. Silence composes the nerves; and as an unbroken hush now reigned again through the whole house, I began to feel the return of slumber. But it was not fated that I should sleep that night. A dream had scarcely approached my ear, when it fled affrighted, scared by a marrow-freezing incident enough.

This was a demoniac laugh – low, suppressed, and deep – uttered, as it seemed, at the very keyhole of my chamber door. The head of my bed was near the door, and I thought at first the goblin-laugher stood at my bedside – or rather, crouched by my pillow. But I rose, looked round, and could see nothing; while, as I still gazed, the unnatural sound was reiterated, and I knew it came from behind the panels. My first impulse was to rise and fasten the bolt; my next, again to cry out, ‘Who is there?’

Questions 1. From which novel is the extract taken from? (Write the letter representing your choice on the answer sheet.)

A. Heart of Darkness

B. Jane Eyre

C. The Old Man and the Sea

2. What time of the day did the marrow-freezing incident happen?

It was around two in the morning / It was after midnight.

3. What words did the author use to describe the laugh she heard?

It was a demoniac laugh-- low, suppressed, deep or unnatural, goblin-laughter, etc.

4. What did the narrator “I” observe after she rose from he r bed?

The narrator looked around but she could see nothing.

Text 2

…I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d,

I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition,

They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,

They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,

Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,

Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,

Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.

So they show their relations to me and I accept them,

They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their possession.

(Song of Myself)

Questions

1. Which of the following is the message Whitman is conveying to average man and woman? (Write the letter representing your choice on the answer sheet.)

A. People should love the earth and the sun and the animals.

B. People should love themselves for what they are and be themselves.

2. Does Whitman use traditional device like regular meter and rhyme in this poem? What’s the form of the poem (sonnet or free verse or visual poetry)? . No. It is a free verse.

3. Identify the literary devices you find in this poem. Name the device, and note down one example.

3. Any ONE of the devices and the illustrative examples:

Repetition:

They do not sweat and whine about their condition,

They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,

They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God…

Parallelism and repetition: