2012英语专业英美文学模拟试题二.doc

2012英语专业英美文学模拟试题二 　1. Define the following literary terms (40/150,10×4):　　1. Ahab as in Moby Dick　　2. Heathcliff as in Wuthering Heights　　3. Tess Durbeyfield　　4. Imagism　　5. Lady Macbeth　　6. Realism　　7. Romanticism　　8. Neoclassicism　　9. Allegory　　10. Conflict　　II. Literary Analysis (30/150, 2×15)　　1. Summarize Ernest Hemingways literary achievements.?　　2. Briefly introduce Ezra Pound’s view on the Imagist poetry.　　III. Questions about Literary Works. (80/150, 8×10)　　1. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?　　Thou are more lovely and more temperate.　　Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,　　And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.　　Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,　　And often is his gold complexion dimmed;　　And every fair from fair sometimes declines,　　By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;　　But thy eternal summer shall not fade,　　Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow st　　Nor shall Death brag thou wand’ rest in his shade,　　When in eternal lines to time thou grow st　　So long as men can breathe or eyes can see　　So long live this, and this gives life to thee.　　a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.　　b. What kind of sonnet is employed in the selection? What are the features of this kind of sonnet?　　c. Comment on the theme of the poem.　　2. To be, or not to be---that is the question;　　Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer　　The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,　　Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,　　And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep—　　No more; and by a sleep to say we end?　　The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks?　　That flesh is heir to, tis a consummation?　　Devoutly to be wished.　　a. From which work is this passage selected? And who is the author of this work?　　b. What literary form does this work belong to? What metrical form is used in this work?　　c. What is the hero of this work? What spiritual mood does this passage reveal