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2013文学史考试题型及范围 一、题型 Part One: Multiple Choice 30 % 【30个】 Part Two: Match the Writers with their Work 10 % 【10 个】 Part Three: Define the Literary Terms 16% 【4 个】 Part Four: General Questions 20% 【2 个】 Part Five: Reading 24 % 二、范围 I. Definition (复习要点：定义；代表作家、作品) Transcendentalism Puritanism Aestheticism Neo-Classicism The Theatre of Absurd The Lost Generation Satire Mock Epic II. General Questions 20% 【2 个】(复习要点： 创作主题；创作特点；文学贡献及地位) 18世纪英国小说兴起的原因 Shakespeare的历史剧 Virginia Woolf的创作特色 比较Walt Whitman 和Emily Dickinson 比较Mark Twain 和Henry James III. Reading （复习要点： 代表作的主要内容；Thematic Concern；写作风格，作品分类，体裁及定义等） Poetry: 课内 William Blake: PP. 197-200 John Milton: PP.107-110 William Wordsworth: PP. 214-217 T. S. Eliot: PP. 177-180 Fiction: 课外 Poetry Appreciation 样题 IV. Critical Analysis Study the following poem and answer the questions given. In a Station of the Metro Ezra Pound The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. *Apparition: 幽灵, 突然景象， Petal: 花瓣? Questions: Who is the writer of this poem? _______________(1%) What images in this poem suggest Haiku poetry and what images are “modern”? (2%) Answers: Ezra Pound Answer should comment on the parallel between the “modern” imagery (description of urban crowds and transportation, loneliness) of the first line and the traditional “Oriental” imagery (budding flowers on a tree, wetness) of the second line. 选择题:共110题 【匹配题目也从该部分出】 ____________, a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons A. The Wife’s Complaint B. Beowulf C. The Dream of the Rood D. The Seafarer Renaissance Period was an age of ____ . A. prose and novel B. poetry and drama C. essays and journals D. ballads and songs _____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature. A. Thomas Wyatt B. William Shakespeare C. Phillip Sidney D. Thomas Campion The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English Drama. It