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1、2014年广东财经大学英美文学考研真题考试年度：2014年 考试科目代码及名称：804-英美文学 适用专业：050201 英语语言文学友情提醒：请在考点提供的专用答题纸上答题，答在本卷或草稿纸上无效！I. Define the following terms.（25 points in all, 5 points for each) 2. Lyric3. Charles Dickens 4. T. S. Eliot5. TragedyII. Multiple choice. In this part, there are 20 statements or questions; in each
2、of them, there are four choices marked by a, b, c, and d. Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the statement or question. (20 points in all, 1 point for each)1. “Shall I compare thee to a summers day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of
3、 May,”. These are the first 3 lines of s poem .A. Thomas Hardy; Sonnet 8 B. William Shakespeare; Sonnet 18 C. Walt Whitman; Sonnet 18 D. Robert Burns; Sonnet 122. What though the field be lost?/ All is not lost; the unconquerable Will,/And study of revenge, immortal hatethese lines are from John Mil
4、tons _.A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Christian Doctrine3. Byrons famous poem She Walks in Beauty is a _poetry.A. realistic B. modern C. romantic D. natural 4. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, three years later, Ernest Hemingway became the spokesman for what_
5、 had called “ a lost generation.”A. Gertrude Stein B. Henry James C. William Faulkner D. Ezra Pound5. The famous and summary poetic line “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” is taken from John Keats . A. “Ode to the West Wind” B. “Ode to the Nightingale C. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” D. “Ode on Melancholy6.
6、Tess of the DUrbervilles was written by who is also the author of his first novel Poor Man and the Lady.A. Jane Austen B. Thomas Hardy C. Oscar Wilde D. William Faulkner7. Imagist poems are mainly composed in the form of _. A. blank verse B. free verse C. sonnet D. quatrain8. Virginia Woolf belongs
7、to _school. A. stream of consciousness B. metaphysical C. sentimentalism D. surrealism9. From her novel, we can deduce Jane Austens view of life is_.A. romantic B. sentimental C.pessimistic D. realistic10. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his_. A. loca
8、l color B. black humor C. irony D. interior monologue11. Of Studies is written by English essayist named_.A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer C. Francis Bacon D. William Blake12. The Renaissance, originally indicating revival of classical (Greek and Roman) arts and sciences after the dark age
9、 of medieval obscurantism, is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events. The keynote of renaissance is _.A. realism B. romanticism C. humanism D. naturalism13. The Spenserian Stanza is a fixed form invented by Edmund Spencer for his epic poem_.A. The Shepherds Calendar B. Colin
10、 Clouts Come Home Again C.The Last Four Things D. The Faerie Queen14. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This line is from Ezra Pounds poem, In a Station of the Metro, which reflects the principles of _.A. imagism B. surrealism C. symbolism D. post-modernism1
11、5. Charlotte Bronte is the most ambitious writer among Bronte sisters, whose best novel is_. A. The professor B. Shirley C. Wuthering Heights D. Jane Eyre16. Carl Sandburg is the leading populist in Modern American poetry. He describes fog in his poem Fog as a _by using the figurative speech of meta
12、phor.A. Cat B. dog C. frog D. butterfly17. “To see a world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower,/Hold infinity in the palm of your hand/ And eternity in an hour.” In this line, what kind of figurative speech is used?A. Simile B. metaphor C. understatement D. metonymy18 _is the first Engl
13、ish poet to employ the neo-classic heroic couplet and quatrain in his poems, who is credited with having reformed English poetry. A Thomas Gray B Alexander Pope C John Donne D John Dryden19. Romanticism in America literature stretches from_to the break forth of American Civil War.A. early 17th C B.
14、early 18th C C. early 19th C D. Spanish-American War20. Autobiography and biography belong to the major forms of _, the purpose of which is to give a presumably accurate accounting of a persons life.A. fiction B. non-fiction C. documentary D. diaryIII. Answer the following questions as you are required (20 points in all, 1 point for each)1.Alexander Pope ( )A. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy2. Virginia Woolf( )B. A Rose for Emily3.John Dryden ( )C. Ile4. Thomas Hardy( )D. Ode to the West Wind5. Thomas More( )E.The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man6. Robert Frost( )F. Minstrelsy of the Scotti
