2013 年广东财经大学英美文学考研真题 A 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. Comedy 2. Stream of consciousness 3. Classicism 4. Foot (of poetry) 5. Realism 6. American Transcendentalism 7. Unitarianism II. Fill in the blanks according to the related literary facts. (20 points in all, 1 point for each) 1. It is likely that in Eliot’s 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 American 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 which 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. Realism 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 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 Shelley’ s “________”. 10. Philip Freneau was 11. by training and taste yet romantic in essential spirit. , Byron’s 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 the 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 woman’s perspective and how female characters and women in general are treated within the work. 15. is a riddle which has meant 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. Lawrence’s most controversial novel is 17. is term in poetry applied 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 Milton’s “ ” is taken from the Bible and deals with the Christian story of “the fall of man”. 19. The puritans believed in 20. Geoffrey Chaucer, the “ in life. ” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in or about the year 1340. E. The Rainbow F. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ) ) ) ) A. When You Are Old ) ) ) D. The Mill on the Floss B. Idylls of the King C. Sister Carrie III. Match the writers with their works. (20 points in all, 1 point for each) 1. William Thackeray ( 2. William Shakespeare ( 3. Jonathan Swift ( 4. Thomas Hardy( 5. James Joyce( 6. William Butler Yeats( 7. Charles Dickens( ) 8. Jane Austen( ) 9. Nathaniel Hawthorne( 10. Alfred Tennyson( ) 11. John Bunyan ( 12. G. B. Shaw( 13. Thomas Gray( ) 14. David Lawrence ( 15. Thomas More ( 16. George Eliot( 17. Edmund Spenser( 18. Theodore Dreiser( ) 19. Thomas Stearns Eliot( 20. George Orwell( G. The Waste Land H. Gulliver’s Travels I. Far from the Madding Crowd J. Utopia R. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard S. Vanity Fair Q. The Pilgrim's Progress N. Pride and Prejudice O. The Scarlet Letter L. Othello M. Animal Farm K. Widower’s Houses ) ) ) ) ) ) ) T. The Faerie Queen ) P. Hard Times IV. Read the following selections and then answer the questions as you are required according to your comprehension. (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 ages 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, 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 Brown afraid that the roof might thunder down? 3. “One short sleep past, we wake eternally And 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 owest; 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. C. What are the possible implications of the last two lines?h 5. “For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.” Questions A. Identify the author and the title. 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 Twain’s contribution to American Literature? 2. Comment on Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms . 3. 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 writer’s 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.