考研专业课备考：2012英语专业英美文学模拟试题二

　　1. Define the following literary terms (40/150,10×4):
　　1. Ahab as in Moby Dick
　　2. Heathcliff as in Wuthering Heights
　　3. Tess Durbeyfield
　　4. Imagism
　　5. Lady Macbeth
　　6. Realism
　　7. Romanticism
　　8. Neoclassicism
　　9. Allegory
　　10. Conflict

　　II. Literary Analysis (30/150, 2×15)
　　1. Summarize Ernest Hemingway's literary achievements.
　　2. Briefly introduce Ezra Pound’s view on the Imagist poetry.

　　III. Questions about Literary Works. (80/150, 8×10)
　　1. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
　　Thou are more lovely and more temperate.
　　Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
　　And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
　　Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
　　And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
　　And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
　　By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
　　But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
　　Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow' st
　　Nor shall Death brag thou wand’ rest in his shade,
　　When in eternal lines to time thou grow' st
　　So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
　　So long live this, and this gives life to thee.
　　a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.
　　b. What kind of sonnet is employed in the selection? What are the features of this kind of sonnet?
　　c. Comment on the theme of the poem.
　　2. 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? To die, to sleep—
　　No more; and by a sleep to say we end
　　The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
　　That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
　　Devoutly to be wished.
　　a. From which work is this passage selected? And who is the author of this work?
　　b. What literary form does this work belong to? What metrical form is used in this work?
　　c. What is the hero of this work? What spiritual mood does this passage reveal abut the hero?
　　3. A Voyage to Lilliput] As to the first, you are to understand, that for above seventy moons past, there have been two struggling parties in this empire, under the names of Tramecksan, and Slamecksan, from the high and low heels on their shoes, by which they distinguish themselves.
　　It is allaged indeed, that the high heels are most agreeable to our ancient constitution: but however this be, his Majesty hath determined to make use of only low heels in the administration of the Government, and all offices in the gift of the Crown; as you cannot but observe; and particularly his Majesty’s imperial heels are lower at least by a druur than any of his court (drurr is a measure about the fourteenth part of an inch.) The animosities between these two parties run so high, that they will neither eat nor drink, nor talk with each other. […] It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs before we eat them, was upon the larger end: but his present Majesty’s grand-father, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his finger, whereupon the emperor his father, published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs.
　　a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.
　　b. What is the theme of this work?
　　c. What are the four parts of the work? How are four organic parts are structured in the work?
　　4. By this time Mrs. Morel was trembling violently. Struggling of this kind often took place between her and her son, when she seemed to fight for his very life against his own will to die. He took her in his arms. She was ill and pitiful.
　　"Never mind, Little/' he murmured. " So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness."
　　She pressed him to her.
　　"But I want you to be happy," she said pathetically.
　　Eh, my dear---say rather you want me to live,"
　　Mrs. Morel felt as if her heart would break for him. At this rate she knew he would not live. He had that poignant carelessness about himself, his own suffering, his own life., which is a form of slow- suicide. It almost broke her heart. With all the passion of her strong nature she hated Miriam for having in this subtle way undermine his joy. It did not matter to her that Miriam could not help it. Miriam did it, and she hated her.
　　a. From what work is-this passage Selected ? Who is the author of this work?
　　b. What is the name of the hero of this work? What is the relationship between the hero, Mrs. Morel and Miriam?
　　c. What literary method is used in this work? Comment the relationship between the hero and Mrs. Morel by using Freud's-theory..
　　5. But the point which drew all eyes, and, as it were, transfigured the wearer, —so that both men and women, who had been familiarly acquainted with Hester Prynne, were now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time, —was that scarlet letter, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself.
　　a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.
　　b. Comment on the symbolic meaning of the letter the heroine wears.
　　c. What is the theme of the work?
　　6. I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I know I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight oft, but laid the paper down and set there thinking----thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near. I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me, all the time, in the day, and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking, and singing, and laughing. But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only other kind. I'd see him standing my watch on top of his'n stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how gland he was when I come back out of the fog …..
　　It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:
　　"All right, then. I'll go to hell ----and tore it up.
　　a. From which novel is this passage selected? Who is the author of this book?
　　b. What period does this author roughly belong to? What is the common feature of the literature in this period?
　　c. What content does this passage reveal? What event happened before this plot?
　　7. Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its power of observation and analysis. Self-interest with her was high, but not strong. It was, nevertheless, her guiding characteristic.
　　a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.
　　b. Comment on the heroine of the work?
　　c. Which literary trend does the author belong to? What are the features of this literary trend?
　　8. Because Biff thinks I'm nothing, see, and so he spites me. But the funeral—Straightening up... that funeral will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the oldtimers with the strange license plates—that boy will be thunder-struck....because he never realized—I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey—I am known....and he'll see it with his eyes once and-for all. He'll see what I am...He's in for a shock, that boy.
　　a. What work is this passage selected from? Who is the author of this work?
　　b. Who is the hero of this work? What does he intend to do at the moment?
　　c. What is the theme of this work?