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2011 年招收攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题 ************************************************************************* 学科、专业名称：外国语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学 研究方向：各研究方向 考试科目名称：808 外国语言文学综合考试 SECTION A . Fill the blanks with proper answers 10% 1. The English sonnet, also known as ________________________ sonnet, usually has a regular rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. 2. It was in 1798, with the publication of William Wordsworth’s ___________, in collaboration with S.T. Coleridge, that romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literature. 3. The typical feature of Robert Brownings poetry is the ____________________. 4. The Graveyard Poets were a number of pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century characterized by their gloomy meditations on mortality in the context of the graveyard. A contemplative and mellow mood is achieved in the celebrated opening verse of Grays _____________________. 5. As one of the great innovators of the modern novel, Virginia Woolf developed the technique of __________________________ in her writing, which focuses on the complex lives of characters’ inner minds instead of outward actions. 6. It was ___________________ , as the primary author who wrote “the Declaration of Independence”, together with other four men including Benjamin Franklin. 7. ____________________’s “The Raven” is a dark reflection on lost love, death, and loss of hope. 8. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter is a story about a woman named _________________ living in seventeenth - century Boston, then a puritan settlement. 9. Early in the 1920s the most prominent of the new American playwrights, ______________, established an international reputation with such plays as The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape. 10. Hemingway’s stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel _________ in 1929, which portrayed a farewell both to war and to love. . Define the terms listed below according to your knowledge of English and American literature and c