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一、 题型 I. 单选题 20% ; II. 名词解释 15 % III. 诗歌分析 25 % IV. 短篇小说（或小说片段分析）14% V. 简答题目：16 二、 文学概论复习提纲 I. 选择题范围 1. Classification of literature: Fiction and nonfiction. Under Fiction, there are four genres: novels, short stories, plays, and poem 2. Rhetorical divisions of essay/non-fiction: description, narration, exposition and argumentation. 3. Classification of novel: by length, by technique, by subject matter 4. Trilogy: Arnold Bennett’s “The Clayhanger Family”, John Dos Passos’s U.S.A, James T. Farrell’s “Studs Lonigan”; Tetralogy: For Maddox For’s “Parade’s End”; Lawrence Durrell’s “The Alexandria Quartet”. 5. E. M. Forster who wrote Aspects of the Novel suggested that 50, 000 words is the smallest number of words needed to make a work a novel. Conveniently, a full-length novel comprises a book of considerable thickness. More importantly, full length should indicate full development. 6. Short novel, centers on just one or two characters, but unlike a short story, it has room to reveal them in greater fullness and depth, sometimes taking a longer span of time. Sometimes, a short novel is also called novelette or a novella. 7. Gothic novel: applied first by Horace Walpole to his novel The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story. The typical Gothic novel has a medieval setting, tantalizing plot of revenge and terrifying scenes and ending. The main character is always a woman usually doomed in one way or another. It is a woman’s adventure story. The atmosphere is depressing. Other examples include Jane Eyre, Rebecca. 8. Kunstlerroman: It is a novel about the artist or writer coming of age, or in conflict with society. His struggles from childhood to maturity are both against an inhospitable environment and with 1