2014 年广东财经大学英美文学考研真题 考试年度：2014 年 考试科目代码及名称：804-英美文学 适用专业：050201 英语语言文学 ［友情提醒：请在考点提供的专用答题纸上答题，答在本卷或草稿纸上无效！］ I. Define the following terms.（25 points in all, 5 points for each) 1.Novel 2. Lyric 3. Charles Dickens 4. T. S. Eliot 5. Tragedy II. Multiple choice. In this part, there are 20 statements or questions; in each of them, there are four choices marked by a, b, c, and d. Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the statement or question. (20 points in all, 1 point for each) 1. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,…”. These are the first 3 lines of ’s poem . A. Thomas Hardy; Sonnet 8 B. William Shakespeare; Sonnet 18 C. Walt Whitman; Sonnet 18 D. Robert Burns; Sonnet 12 2. What though the field be lost?/ All is not lost; the unconquerable Will,/And study of revenge, immortal hate……these lines are from John Milton’s _______. A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Christian Doctrine 3. Byron’s famous poem She Walks in Beauty is a _______poetry. A. realistic B. modern C. romantic D. natural 4. With the publication of TheSunAlsoRises, three years later, Ernest Hemingway became the spokesman for what______ had called “ a lost generation.” A. Gertrude Stein B. Henry James C. William Faulkner D. Ezra Pound 

5. The famous and summary poetic line “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” is taken from John Keats’ . A. “Ode to the West Wind” B. “Ode to the Nightingale C. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” D. “Ode on Melancholy 6. TessoftheD’Urbervilleswas written by who is also the author of his first novel Poor Man and the Lady. A. Jane Austen B. Thomas Hardy C. Oscar Wilde D. William Faulkner 7. Imagist poems are mainly composed in the form of ________. A. blank verse B. free verse C. sonnet D. quatrain 8. Virginia Woolf belongs to ___________school. A. stream of consciousness B. metaphysical C. sentimentalism D. surrealism 9. From her novel, we can deduce Jane Austen’s view of life is_____. A. romantic B. sentimental C.pessimistic D. realistic 10. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his______. A. local color B. black humor C. irony D. interior monologue 11. Of Studies is written by English essayist named_______. A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer C. Francis Bacon D. William Blake 12. The Renaissance, originally indicating revival of classical (Greek and Roman) arts and sciences after the dark age of medieval obscurantism, is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events. The keynote of renaissance is _______. A. realism B. romanticism C. humanism D. naturalism 13. The Spenserian Stanza is a fixed form invented by Edmund Spencer for his epic poem________. A. The Shepherd’s Calendar B. Colin Clouts Come Home Again C.The Last Four Things D. The Faerie Queen 14. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This line is from Ezra Pound’s poem, InaStationoftheMetro, which reflects 

the principles of ______. A. imagism B. surrealism C. symbolism D. post-modernism 15. Charlotte Bronte is the most ambitious writer among Bronte sisters, whose best novel is_________. A. The professor B. Shirley C. Wuthering Heights D. Jane Eyre 16. Carl Sandburg is the leading populist in Modern American poetry. He describes fog in his poem Fog as a _____by using the figurative speech of metaphor. A. Cat B. dog C. frog D. butterfly 17. “To see a world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower,/Hold infinity in the palm of your hand/ And eternity in an hour.” In this line, what kind of figurative speech is used? A. Simile B. metaphor C. understatement D. metonymy 18 ______is the first English poet to employ the neo-classic heroic couplet and quatrain in his poems, who is credited with having reformed English poetry. A Thomas Gray B Alexander Pope C John Donne D John Dryden 19. Romanticism in America literature stretches from______to the break forth of American Civil War. A. early 17th C B. early 18th C C. early 19th C D. Spanish-American War 20. Autobiography and biography belong to the major forms of _______, the purpose of which is to give a presumably accurate accounting of a person’s life. A. fiction B. non-fiction C. documentary D. diary III. Answer the following questions as you are required (20 points in all, 1 point for each) 1.Alexander Pope ( 2. Virginia Woolf( ) ) A. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy B. A Rose for Emily 3.John Dryden ( ) C. Ile 4. Thomas Hardy( ) D. Ode to the West Wind 5. Thomas More( ) E.The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 6. Robert Frost( ) F. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 

7. Thomas Jefferson ( ) G. Don Juan 8.Eugene O’Neill ( 9. Sinclair Lewis ( 10. Jonathan Swift( ) ) ) H. Vanity Fair I. My Last Duchess J.The Road Not Taken 11. William Faulkner( ) K. The Rape of the Lock 12. T. S. Eliot( ) L. I’m Nobody 13. Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ) M. The Battle of Books 14. James Joyce( ) N. The Waste Land 15. Robert Browning ( ) O. the Declaration of Independence 16. Walter Scott( ) P. The Grapes of Wrath 17. Emily Dickinson( ) Q. Babbitt 18. George Gordon Byron( ) R. A Room of One’s Own 19.William M. Thackeray ( ) S. Utopia 20. John Steinbeck ( ) T. Tess of the d’Urbervilles 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. “Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” Questions: A. Identify the title of the poem written by William Blake. B. Please give a brief comment on the poem. 2. “To be or not to be, this is a question. Questions: A. Identify the author and the title of this sentence. B. What’s your understanding about this sentence? 3. O, my love is a red, red rose. 

That’s newly sprung in June; O, my love’s like the melodie, That’s sweetly played in tune. Questions: A. Who wrote this poem? What’s the title of the poem? B. What do you know about this poem? 4. “As Oliver gave this first proof of the free and proper action of his lungs, the patchwork coverlet which was carelessly flung over the iron bedstead, rustled; the pale face of a young woman was raised feebly from the pillow; and a faint voice imperfectly articulated the words, “Let me see the child, and die. ” Questions: A. Identify the novel and the writer. B. Give a brief analysis of the hero. 5. “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Questions： A. Identify the names of the speech and its speaker. B. Analyze the characteristics that make it a good speech V. Topic Discussion (45 points in all, 15 points for each within 200 words) 1. List the names of Lake Poets and their major works. Focus on one of the poets you like the best, and comment on the poet and one of his poems. 2. Discuss the implication of the letter A in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 3. 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.: Ernest Hemingway, William Wordsworth, Jane Eyre, Mark Twain.