2013年广东财经大学考研专业课试题807英美文学.doc

1、欢迎报考广东商学院硕士研究生，祝你考试成功！（第 4 页 共 4 页）广东商学院硕士研究生入学考试试卷考试年度：2013年 考试科目代码及名称：807-英美文学 试卷编号：A卷适用专业：050201-英语语言文学I. Choose five of the following seven terms to define. (25 points in all, 5 points for each) 1. Comedy2. Stream of consciousness 3. Classicism4. Foot (of poetry)5. Realism6. American Transcenden

2、talism7. UnitarianismII. Fill in the blanks according to the related literary facts. (20 points in all, 1 point for each)1. It is likely that in Eliots abundant use of literary reference in The Waste of Land he was influenced by .2. In vivid and graceful prose, Fitzgerald had portrayed the of the Am

3、erican worship of riches and the unending American dream of love, splendor, and fulfilled desires.3. applies the principles of scientific determinism to fiction. It views human beings as animals in the natural world responding to environmental forces and internal stresses and drives, over none of wh

4、ich they have control and none of which they fully understand.4. Henry James keen observation of human beings and deep understanding of them have made him one of the founding fathers of the fiction.5. It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made _ one of the greatest American novelists.6. Reali

5、sm first appeared in the United States in the literature of , and an amalgam if romantic plots and realistic descriptions of things were immediately observable.7. The eighteenth-century England is also, and better, known as the _ or the Age of Reason.8. is a basic feature governing the structure of

6、poetry, whether in the planned succession of long and short syllables, as in Greek and Latin poetry, or in the use of accent and meter, as in modern poetry.9. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” the quoted line comes from Shelleys “_”.10. Philip Freneau was by training and taste yet romanti

7、c in essential spirit.11. , Byrons greatest work, was written in the prime of his creative power, in the years 1818-1823.12. In defense of his unconventional theory of poetry, Wordsworth wrote a “Preface” to the second edition of the , which appeared in 1800.13. In the autobiographical account of th

8、e childhood, growth and maturity of , Dickens is actually retracing his own life.14. _ is concerned both with how the meaning of a literary work is affected when read from a womans perspective and how female characters and women in general are treated within the work. 15. is a riddle which has meant

9、 so many things to so many people. Even today it is still hard for people to come to a universally accepted understanding of the book. It is small wonder Clement Shorter would call its author “the sphinx of our modern literature”. 16. Lawrences most controversial novel is .17. is term in poetry appl

10、ied to two successive lines of verse that form a single unit because they rhyme; the term also is often used for lines that express a complete thought or form a separate stanza.18. The central theme of John Miltons “ ” is taken from the Bible and deals with the Christian story of “the fall of man”.1

11、9. The puritans believed in in life.20. Geoffrey Chaucer, the “ ” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in or about the year 1340.III. Match the writers with their works. (20 points in all, 1 point for each) 1. William Thackeray ( ) A. When You Are Old2. William Shak

12、espeare ( ) B. Idylls of the King3. Jonathan Swift ( ) C. Sister Carrie4. Thomas Hardy( ) D. The Mill on the Floss5. James Joyce( ) E. The Rainbow6. William Butler Yeats( ) F. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man7. Charles Dickens( ) G. The Waste Land8. Jane Austen( ) H. Gullivers Travels9. Natha

13、niel Hawthorne( ) I. Far from the Madding Crowd10. Alfred Tennyson( ) J. Utopia11. John Bunyan ( ) K. Widowers Houses12. G. B. Shaw( ) L. Othello13. Thomas Gray( ) M. Animal Farm14. David Lawrence ( ) N. Pride and Prejudice15. Thomas More ( ) O. The Scarlet Letter16. George Eliot( ) P. Hard Times17.

14、 Edmund Spenser( ) Q. The Pilgrims Progress18. Theodore Dreiser( ) R. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard19. Thomas Stearns Eliot( ) S. Vanity Fair20. George Orwell( ) T. The Faerie QueenIV. Read the following selections and then answer the questions as you are required according to your comprehen

15、sion. (40 points in all, 8 points for each)1.“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere 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 difference.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the phrase “ages and age

16、s hence” mean?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?2. “When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and with his hands on the open bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and a saint like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or misery unutterable

17、, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers.”Questions:A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken and the author.B. What had happened in the story before this church scene?C. Why was Goodman Brow

18、n afraid that the roof might thunder down?3. “One short sleep past, we wake eternallyAnd death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the word “sleep” mean?C. What idea do the two lines express? 4. “Nor lose possession of that fair thou owes

19、t;Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou growest:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. Discuss BRIEFLY the main idea of the stanza or of the whole canto.

20、 C. What are the possible implications of the last two lines?h 5. “For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.”QuestionsA. Identify the author and the t

21、itle.B. What does the phrase “inward eye” mean? C. Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.V. Topic Discussion: Choose three of the five to discuss (45 points in all, 15 for each)1. What is Mark Twains contribution to American Literature?2. Comment on Hemingways A Farewell to Arms .3

22、. Make a comparison between Tennyson and Browning.4. Give an explanation on Spenserian Stanza.5. Choose one from the following writers to discuss. Your discussion should contain the writers basic background, the key representative works, and then select one of his works to analyze the theme and primary writing features, etc:William Blake; Jane Austen; Henry David Thoreau; William Butler Yeats; Ernest Hemingway; Robert Burns.4