国立高雄大学九十八学年度转学招生考试试题(转2年级).pdf

國立高雄大學九十八學年度轉學招生考試試題 轉( 2 年級) 系所： 科目：西洋文學概論 西洋語文學系 是否使用計算機：否 考試時間：80分鐘 本科原始成績：100分 I. Define the terms. 35% 1. ballad 2. terza rima 3. in medias res 4. Renaissance 5. epithet 6. the Tower of Babel 7. irony II. Answer FIVE of the following questions. (Read each question carefully and answer it in complete sentences unless otherwise directed.) 45% 1. Compare Jason’s abandonment of his wife and family with Aeneas’s abandonment of Dido. What ancient views of sexual passion may be perceived in Medea and the Aeneid ? 2. What is Aristotle’s conception of tragedy in Poetics? 3. Dreams are so recurrent and important in Gilgamesh. What narrative function do they serve? 4. Do you find Beowulf more or less attractive than Homer’s Achilles or Odysseus? Explain why. 5. What do we know about Odysseus’ character through his use of deception, disguise, and false storytelling in the Odyssey? 6. What is The Apology of Socrates? Describe its form and content. III. Comment on the following passage. 20% I rested my tired body there awhile and then began to climb the barren slope (I dragged my stronger foot and limped along). Beyond the point the slope begins to rise sprang up a leopard, trim and very swift! It was covered by a pelt of many spots. And, everywhere I looked, the beast was there blocking my way, so time and time again I was about to turn and go back down. The hour was early in the morning then, the sun was climbing up with those same stars that had accompanied it on the world’s first day, 背面尚有試題 第 1 頁，共 2 頁 國立高雄大學九十八學年度轉學招生考試試題 轉( 2 年級)