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1、目录 2011年暨南大学808外国语言文学综合考试考研真题及详解 2012年暨南大学808外国语言文学综合考试考研真题及详解 2013年暨南大学808外国语言文学综合考试考研真题及详解 2014年暨南大学808外国语言文学综合考试考研真题及详解 2015年暨南大学808外国语言文学综合考试考研真题及详解 2016年暨南大学808外国语言文学综合考试考研真题及详解 2017年暨南大学808外国语言文学综合考试考研真题及详解 2018年暨南大学808外国语言文学综合考试考研真题及详解 2011年暨南大学808外国语言文学 综合考试考研真题及详解 SECTION A . Fill the blank
2、s 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. Shakespearean【答案】 莎士比亚的诗作，改变了彼得拉克的格式，由三段四行和 一副对句组成，即按四、四、四、二编排，其押韵格式为“ABAB， CDCD，EFEF，GG”。每行诗句有十个抑扬格音节。 【解析】 2. It was in 1798, with the publication of Willia
3、m Wordsworths _, in collaboration with S.T. Coleridge, that romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literature. Lyrical Ballads【答案】 1798年，华兹华斯与柯勒律治将各自的诗歌合为一册，定 名为抒情歌谣集。 【解析】 3. The typical feature of Robert Brownings poetry is the _. dramatic monologue【答案】 勃朗宁对英国诗
4、歌的最大贡献，是发展和完善了戏剧独白 诗这样一种独特的诗歌形式，并且用它鲜明而生动地塑造了各种不同类 型的人物性格，深刻而复杂地展示了人的内在心理。 【解析】 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 i
5、n the celebrated opening verse of Grays _. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard【答案】 这首诗充满感伤情调，成为18世纪后期感伤主义诗歌的典 范之作。 【解析】 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 in
6、stead of outward actions. stream of consciousness【答案】 弗吉尼亚伍尔芙（1882年1月25日1941年3月28日）。英 国女作家、文学批评家和文学理论家，意识流文学代表人物，被誉 为“二十世纪现代主义与女性主义的先锋”。 【解析】 6. It was _, as the primary author who wrote “the Declaration of Independence”, together with other four men including Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Jefferson【答案】
7、 独立宣言是一份于1776年7月4日由托马斯杰斐逊起【解析】 草，并由其它13个殖民地代表签署的最初声明美国从英国独立的文件。 7. _s “The Raven” is a dark reflection on lost love, death, and loss of hope. Edgar Allen Poe【答案】 乌鸦是埃德加爱伦坡于1844年创作的诗集，诗歌主题 除了爱情就是死亡、幻灭和伤悼。 【解析】 8. Nathaniel Hawthornes Scarlet Letter is a story about a woman named _ living in seventeen
8、th-century Boston, then a puritan settlement. Hester Prynne【答案】 红字讲述了发生在北美殖民时期的恋爱悲剧。女主人 公是海丝特白兰。 【解析】 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. Eugene ONeill【答案】 尤金奥尼尔（1
9、888年10月16日1953年11月27日）美国剧 作家，表现主义文学的代表作家，美国民族戏剧的奠基人。主要作品有 琼斯皇毛猿天边外悲悼等。 【解析】 10. Hemingways stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel _ in 1929, which portrayed a farewell both to war and to love. A Farewell to Arms【答案】 永别了，武器是美国小说家欧内斯特海明威创作的长 篇小说，是其早期代表作，首次出版于1929年9月27日。通过描
10、述二人 的爱情，作品揭示了战争的荒唐和残酷的本质，反映了战争中人与人之 间的相互残杀以及战争对人的精神和情感的毁灭。 【解析】 . Define the terms listed below according to your knowledge of English and American literature and criticism. (20%) 1. Gothic novel Gothic Novel, as a literary genre, combines elements of both horror and romance. These novels, in rebell
11、ing against the increasing commercialism and rationalism, show the dark, irrational side of human nature. They are mysteries, often involving the supernatural and heavily tinged with horror, and they are usually against dark backgrounds of medieval ruins and haunted castles. The originator of Englis
12、h Gothic novel is Horace Walpole, and his Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story is the first work of the kind. 【答案】 2. Byronic hero The Byronic hero is an idealized but flawed character exemplified in the life and writings of Lord Bryon, like Child Harold and Don Juan. They are handsome, chivalrous, ene
13、rgetic, pathetic, lonely and remorseful over a sin, gloomy and misanthropic, sexually free, and capable of 【答案】 generous acts and magnanimity. There is a possible downside of their personality with individualistic spirit, aloofness, arrogance and occasional contempt for the common people. 3. Critica
14、l Realism The critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the 1840s and in the beginning of the 1850s. The realists first and foremost set themselves the task of criticizing capitalist society from a dramatic viewpoint and delineated the crying conditions of bourgeois reality. But they did no
15、t find a way to eradicate social evils. Charles Dickens is the most important critical realist. 【答案】 4. Transcendentalism It is a literary, philosophical and artistic movement that flourished in New England from about 1836 to 1860. It originated among a small group of intellectuals who were reacting
16、 against the orthodoxy of Calvinism and the rationalism of the Unitarian Church, developing instead their own faith centering on the divinity of humanity and the natural world. Transcendentalists placed emphasis on spirit, or the Oversoul as the most important thing in the universe, and stressed the importance of the individual. To them, nature was the garment of the Oversoul. Their ideas were eloquently expressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson in such essays
