How did the Lost Generation come into being in the literary history of the United States? Who were the leading figures o
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First World War|American|young men|disillusioned|expatriates|European countries|Pound|Frost|Fiztgerald|Hemingway|Faulkner
What does Wordsworth mean when he said "All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in
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principle|Wordsworth|poetic|creation|preface|Lyrical Ballads|individual|sensations
Discuss the artistic features of Shelley.s poems.
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lyrical|poet|classical|mythological|allusions|figures of speech|metaphor|personification|description
Discuss the four periods of William Shakespeare.s dramatic career, the characteristics of his characters, plot and langu
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apprenticeship|individualized|tragedies|comedies|romantic tragicomedies|individuals|types|plot|vocabulary
Discuss the change and growth of Robinson Crusoe and the ch aracteristics of him.
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change|teenager|fancies|sea|world|fortune|naive|shrewd|hardened
Please elaborate Wordsworth’s theory of poetry, taking examples from the poems you have learned to support your ideas.
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Lyrical Ballads|emotions|recollected|tranquility|I wandered lonely as a cloud|nature|individual|common speech
Why is Hardy regarded as a naturalistic writer in English literature? Discuss in relation to his novels you know.
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survival|fittest|fate|mysterious|supernatural|force|impotent|Fate
Make a comment on the character of Jane Eyre, the heroine of the novel by Charlotte Bronte.
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orphan|child|poor|plain|governess|middle class|working|woman
"A Modest Proposal" is a satire written by Swift and it is generally taken as a perfect model of satire. Gulliver.s Trav
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satirist|satires|corruption|religion|learning|Gulliver's Travels|English society|earnestness|A Modest Proposal|sincerity and detachment
List three characters in Tess.
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Angel, Tess and Alec
List three works of James Joyce
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Dubliners, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
who are the three Bronte sisters?
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Charlotte, Emily and Anne
List three characters of Tom Jones.
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Tom, Blifil and Sophia
what is Bacon.s Of Studies about?
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the aims, ways and infulence of studies
What is the belief of the neoclassicists about literature?
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According to the neoclassicists, all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers and those of the contemporary French ones. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy, and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity.
Elizabeth Bennet is the heroine of Pride and Prejucide. What kind of character do you think Elizabeth Bennet is?
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Elizabeth is clever, alert, and observant. She is able to match wits with Darcy several times and with Colonel Fizwilliam, earning their respect and admiration. Fearless and frank, not rattled by the attack of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she wins a notable cictory, sending her ladyship away completely routed. She is independent but not infallible in her judgement-- taken in by the charm of the worthless Wickham. She cannot be blamed for misjudging Darcy. She shows flexibility, discernment and honesty of mind when she reads Darcy
What is the most famous theme in Henry James.s fiction? What distinguishes him from other realist writers such as Mark T
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The most famous theme is "the international theme". His novels or short stories of the theme are always set against a larger international background, usually between Europe and America. They center around the conflict of the two cultures, represented by an innocent American and a sophisticated European. James is the founder of phychological realism for his psychoanalytical approach to his characters.
The white whale, Moby Dick is endowed with symbolic meaning. What do you think it symbolizes
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To Ahab, the whale is an evil creature or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe. To Ishmael, the whale is an astonishing force, an immense power, which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful, but malignant at the same time. To the reader, it may be regarded as a symbol of nature or an instrument of God
Do you know something about "Yoknapatawpha County?" What are the characteristics of Faulkner.s fiction?
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Yoknapatawpha County is an imagined place based on Faulkner
Briefly state Mark Twain’ s magic power with language in his novels.
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His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect, and his sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical spoken language; His characters speak with a strong accent, which is true of his local colorism;Different characters from different literary or cultural backgrounds talk differently.
What are the factors that gave rise to American naturalism?
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The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought; The influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters.
Briefly introduce Blake’ s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
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Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils; Songs of Experience paints a different world, a world of misery, disease, war and repression with melancholy tone; The two books hold the similar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.
Working through the tradition of a Christian humanism, Milton wrote Paradise Lost, intending to expose the ways of Satan
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At the center of the conflict between human love and spiritual duty lies Milton’s fundamental concern with freedom and choice; The freedom to submit to God’s prohibition on eating the apple; and the choice of disobedience made for love.
What makes Sheridan the only important English dramatist of the 18th century?
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his plays are the links between Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw. They are true classics in English comedy and product of a dramatic genius. He is a well-versed theatrical man
What are the characteristics of Byron.s works?
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they are violentattack on politics, religion and morals. They describe the novelty of oriental scenery and shows the easy, fluent and natural beauty of his verse.
What are the "Wessex novels" of Thomas Hardy?
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They are the fictional and crude rural region in Wessex andHardy
What are the features of Charles Dickens. novels?
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They provides a complete and realistic picture of the English bourgeoisie society. Many of them are about childhood experience and are famous for humor.
What is the language style of Mark Twain?
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He uses vernacular and colloquial speech, concrete and direct words, simple and ungrammatical sentences.
Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?
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The negative influence comes from Darwin
What is expressionism?
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It is a reaction against materialism, describes individual reaction|against|symbolic|internal| Strinberg|Eugene
What are the main features of Robert Browning’s poetry?
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He uses dramatic monologue, fast, rough and unmusical rhythm. His works include clipped and compressed syntax, similes and illustrations,non-poetic jarring diction.
What contributions did Geoffrey Chaucher make to English literature？
答案是：He celebrates earthly happiness and opposes asceticism and satirizes the social vices. His characters are with both typical qualities and individual dispositions. He uses the octosyllabic couplet and the heroic couplet. Canterbury Tales makes him the father of English poetry.
Please comment on Alexander Pope’s literary achievements.
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An Essay on Criticism follows the neoclassicist tradition. The Rape of the Lock mocks the epic. He uses heroic couplet.Criticism|neoclassicist|epic|satiric|concise|smooth|graceful|well-balanced
Give the symbolic meanings of characters Gerald and Birkin in the novel
Women in Love
.
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They are the symbols of spiritual deathand bourgeois ethics.spiritual|death|bourgeois|ethics|human|spontaneous
What is the difference between the easy conceits and the difficult conceits employed in John Donne’s poetry？
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The former are mythology and natural objects, while the latter are concerned with law, psychology and philosophy|intellectual difficulties
Comment on Robert Lee Frost’s poetic style.
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It uses traditional form/ryhme, New England speech, images, metaphors and symbols.rural life|spoken language
Comment on the characteristics of Romantic writers in English history.
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It is a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, extols the faculty of imagination and nature.
It is said that B. Shaw’ s plays reflect the dramatist’s Fabianist idea. Give one example.
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Mrs. Warren’ s Profession Widowers|class
What’s the theme of Emily Bronte’ s Wuthering Heights?
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a story of revenge;From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused; it is also a love story.
Then where are our relatives? My father? Our family friends? You claim the rights of a mother: the right to call me fool
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Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good forturen must be in want of a wife.
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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Mrs Bennet, considering her daughters
Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the na
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Bunyan, The Pilgrim
"To be or not to be-- that is the question."
Questions:
A. Identify the author.
B. From which work is the abov
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Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal
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Shakespeare, Sonnet 18, permance of poetry
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume.
For every atom belonging to me as good b
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Whitman, song of myself, the theory of universailty and the singularity
“I like to see it lap the Miles—
And lick the Valleys up—
And stop to feed itself at Tanks—
And then-prodigiosu
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Emily Dichinson, suspicion of the relationship between man and nature
But it seemed that both his audacity and his respect were lost on Miss Daisy Miller. ‘I guess mother wouldn’t go—for you
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Henry James, Daisy Miller, visit an old castle
“ ‘Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? So you think I am an automoton?—a machine without feelings? And can
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Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Jane doesn
“The curfew tolls the knell o fparting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods h
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iambic pentameter, abab, two accented syllables, slow down the pace
Had I as many souls as there be stars.
I’d give them all for Mephistophilis!
By him I’ll be great emperor of the w
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Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, Man
“It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise. Know, then, that for you is n
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Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carried, Carrie
“He neither spoke, nor loosed his hold some five minutes, during which period he bestowed more kisses than ever he gave
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Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, meeting
‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’
‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick. It all depends. ’”
Questions:
A. Who’s the author of the
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Hemingway, Indian Camp|life and death|Death can be both easy and hard.
“My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’ d from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the s
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Whitman, Song of Myself|America|devotion
1. “When the stars threw down their spears,
And water’ d heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did h
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William Blake;God; peace and purity
“Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock or hill;
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a ca
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London, sonnet
Shall I compare thee to a summer.s day?
Thou are more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling
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Shakespeare, eternity of poetry, sonnet
So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn.t know what to do. At last I had an idea; and I says, I.ll go and
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Huck, Miss Watson, a boy with good heart but deformed conscience
When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hands on the open bible, of the
答案是：教师释疑：
young Goodman Brown, attend a witches
Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her
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参考答案：D
Which writer does not belong to the group of American Romantic writers?
A.William C. Bryant
B.Henry W. Long
答案是：参考答案：D
Washington Irving was one of the first American writers to earn international fame and was regarded as _____.
A.f
答案是：参考答案：D
________ is not a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter.
A.Hester
B.Arthur Dimmesdale
C.Roger Chil
答案是：参考答案：D
The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is__________.
A.insig
答案是：参考答案：C
The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his en
答案是：参考答案：C
We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are
答案是：参考答案：B
The most original playwright of the Theatre of Absurd was __________.
A.Bernard Shaw
B.John Osborne
C.S
答案是：参考答案：C
Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?
A.Oscar Wilde’s idea o
答案是：参考答案：A
Which of the following best describes the speaker of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?
A.a man
答案是：参考答案：C
Galsworthy was a ______ writer, who inherited the fine tradition of the great Victorian novelists of the critical realis
答案是：参考答案：C
“ ‘Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat, ‘Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine!
答案是：参考答案：D
All of the following are stream –of- consciousness novels EXCEPT________.
A.The Sound and the Fury
B.Ulysse
答案是：参考答案：D
In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primit
答案是：参考答案：C
The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility” belongs to ______.
A.Wordsworth
答案是：参考答案：A
Which of the following comments on William Blake is not true?
A.The Book of Loss is his masterpiece.
B.Child
答案是：参考答案：C
We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley’s poem “Ode to the West Wind” with all the following terms EXCEPT______
答案是：参考答案：A
Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of th
答案是：参考答案：D
“Surface”, “Sneerwell”, “Backbite”, and “Candour” are most likely the names of the characters in _______.
A.Shaw’
答案是：参考答案：B
Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that _______.
A.the former celebrates reason
答案是：参考答案：A
_________ is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end a
答案是：参考答案：C
Francis Bacon is best known for his _____ which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.
A.essay
答案是：参考答案：A
“O prince, O chief of many throned powers, That led th’ embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct, and in dreadful dee
答案是：参考答案：A
Beowulf describes the hero in fighting against the monster Grendel, his revengeful mother and a _____.
A.tiger
答案是：参考答案：B
The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval Eng
答案是：参考答案：B
Charlotte Bronte’s autobiograghical work ______ largely based on her experience in Brussels.
A.The Professor
答案是：参考答案：D
D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical novel is ______.
A.The Rainbow
B.Women in Love
C.Sons and Lovers
答案是：参考答案：C
In 1837, ______ published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of short stories which attracted critical attention.
A
答案是：参考答案：D
In his poetry, Whitman shows concern for ______ and the burgeoning life of cities.
A.the colonists
B.the ca
答案是：参考答案：C
H. L. Mencken, a famous American critic, considered ______ “the true father of our national literature. ”
A.Hamli
答案是：参考答案：B
Within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern ______, which include religion, death, immorality
答案是：参考答案：A
The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after WWI and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of
答案是：参考答案：A
With the help of his friends Phil Stone and Sherwood Anderson, ______ published a volume of poetry The Marble Faun and h
答案是：参考答案：A
The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by ______ to emphasize the reac
答案是：参考答案：C
From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to
答案是：参考答案：D
As an active participant of his age, Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______.
A.Jazz Age
答案是：参考答案：A
We can easily find in Dreiser’ s fiction a world of jungle, and ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote.
答案是：参考答案：A
Robert Frost described ______as “a book of people,” which shows a brilliant insight into New England character and the b
答案是：参考答案：A
In order to protest against America’ s failure to join England in WWI, ______ became a naturalized British citizen in 19
答案是：参考答案：B
During WWI, ______ served as an honorable junior officer in the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps and in 1918 was sever
答案是：参考答案：C
The theme of Henry James’ essay “______” clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life, so it is not su
答案是：参考答案：B
Melville is best - known as the author of his mighty book, ________, which is one of the world’ s greatest masterpieces.
答案是：参考答案：C
In Tender is the Night, ______ traces the decline of a young American psychiatrist whose marriage to a beautiful and wea
答案是：参考答案：B
The author of Leaves of Grass , a giant of American letters, is ______.
A.Faulkner
B.Dreiser
C.James
答案是：参考答案：D
With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______ proves himself to be one of the best symbolists.
A
答案是：参考答案：A
The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the following EXCEPT ______.
答案是：参考答案：D
The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.
A.the old English
B.the medieval
C
答案是：参考答案：B
The belief of the eighteenth - century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT ______.
A.
答案是：参考答案：D
Dickens attacks the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and min
答案是：参考答案：A
D. H. Lawrence’ s ______ is a remarkable novel in which the individual consciousness is subtly revealed and strands of t
答案是：参考答案：C
Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifi
答案是：参考答案：A
Dickens’ s first child hero is ______.
A.Little Nell
B.David Copperfield
C.Oliver Twist
D.Littl
答案是：参考答案：C
George Bernard Shaw’ s ______ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.
A.Widower’ s House
B
答案是：参考答案：A
All of the following statements about the Victorian period is true EXCEPT ______.
A.England was the “workshop of
答案是：参考答案：D
Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole
答案是：参考答案：C
Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected i
答案是：参考答案：A
Daniel Defoe’s ______ is universally considered as his masterpiece.
A.Colonel Jack
B.Robinson Crusoe
C.
答案是：参考答案：B
Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel, as an art of fo
答案是：参考答案：B
John Milton’ s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is ______.
A.Paradise Lost
B.Paradise Regained
答案是：参考答案：C
“To be, or not to be - that is the question;/Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrag
答案是：参考答案：A
“Where intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was our hope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole s
答案是：参考答案：B
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