2001 年上海华东师范大学英美文学考研真题 I.Identify the following tems: (Examples: Johm Webster:a dramatist during the reign of James I The Dunciad: a satinical poem by Alexandcr Pope Catherine Morland: a female character in J. Austen's novel Northange Abbey) 1..Manfied 2. The Fall of the House of Usher 3. The Pariament of Fowls 4. The American Scholar 5. Henry David Thoreau 6. Native Son 7. Tradition and Individual Talent 8. Big Two-Heartcd Rivcr 9. Pygmalion 10. Squirc Alworthy 11.Angel Clare 12.Death in the Woods 13.To the Lighthouse 14.Thomas Chatterton 15. George Eliot 16. Mansfield Park I. Explain briely the following terms: 1.Free Verse 2. The Morality Plays 3. The Enghish Augustan Age 4. The Beat Gencration II. Answer TWO of the following questions: 1. What are the articstic features of A Tale of Two Cities? 

2.What are some of the themes in the tragedies written by Shakespeare? 3. What is the central idea of The Scarlet Letter? IV. Write a short essay of no less than 500 words commenting on ONE of the following two pieces: （I） The Tiger Wiliam Blake Tiger, tiger,burning bright In the fonest of the night, What immortal hand or eye Coud frame thy fearful symmetry? In wlat distant deeps or skies Bumt the fre of thinc eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare scize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart begmn to beat, What dread hand forged thy dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? Tiger! Tiger! burmning bright In the forests of the night, What immontal hand or eye 

Dare frame thy fcarful symmetry （II） Samuel Johnson Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield February 7,1755 My Lord I have been lately informed by the proprietor of The World that two Papers in which my Dictionary is recommended to the Public were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, bcing very little accustomed to favours from the Great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When upon 8ome slight encouragemcnt I first visited your Lordship I was overpowered likc the rest of Mankind by the enchantment of your addrcss, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le Vcuinqueur du Vcinqueur de lu Terre', that I might obtain the rcgard for which l saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so ittle encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When Ihad once addressed your Lordship in public,I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourty Scholar can possess. I had done al that I could, and no Man is well plcascd to have his all ncglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, My Lord, have now past since I waited in your outward Rooms or was repulsed from your Door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficultics of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of Publication without one Act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smite of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. Thc Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a Native o1 the Rocks. Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in tnc v.er and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help.The notice which vou have been pleased to take of my Labours, had it been carly, had been kind; but it has been delayed till am indifferent and cannot cenjoy it, tillIam solitary and cannot impart it till I am known and do not vant it I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligation where no bcneft has 

been received, or to be unwilling that the Public should consider me as owing tat to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so litulc obligation to any Favourcr of Learmning I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it if less be possiblc, with lcss, for I have bcern long wakened from that Drcam of hopc, in which I once boasted mysclf with so much exultation My Lord, Your Lordship's most humble most obcdient servant, Sam. Johnson