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江西财经大学 2005—2006学年第一学期《英美文学鉴赏》课试卷A 课程代码：04763 课程学时：48 任课教师：季大方 I. Choose the right one to fill the sentences: ( 15 %) 1. “Poetry” comes from a Greek verb which means_______. A. to write B. to find C. to make D. to compose 2. A convention is an _____ between author and audience that an idea will be presented in a particular way. A. argument B. amendment C. arrangement D. agreement 3. The aside is the convention in which a character momentarily turns away from the character to whom he or she is either listening or speaking and addresses the audience ______. A. frankly B. forcefully C. secretly D. directly 4. Which of the following is not a traditional symbol standing for death? A. thunder B. sunset C. sleep D. night 5. In Keats’s poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, we can say the two lines “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter…” belongs to _________. A. metaphor B. conceit C. paradox D. ambiguity 6. A character can confidently expect certain events to happen, but you will see that things wont work out as expected. The gap is then between ______. A. appearance and reality B. intention and result C. words and truth D. words and meaning 7. A ______ is a specially made voice or self who speaks in a poem. It means the poem is written in the first person singular. A. person B. personal C. personnel D. persona 8. If you want to find out the crisis of any Shakespeare’s play, you can look directly at the act ______ -- usually scene one and/or scene two. A. two B. four C. three D. five 9. Love is said to be a madness, a plague or a game. The thing that these three have in common is _________. A. transformation B. translation C. transplantation D. transportation 10. Relief is the relaxing of ____ that we experience when we discover the outcome of the story. A. worrying B. frightening C. nervousness D. tension II. Explain the