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2014年广东财经大学外国语学院804英美文学考研真题
I. Define the following terms.（25 points in all, 5 points for each)
1.Novel
2.Lyric
3.Charles Dickens
4.T. S. Eliot
5.Tragedy
II. Multiple choice. In this part, there are 20 statements orquestions; in each 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 orquestion. (20 points in all, 1 point for each)
1. “Shall I compare thee to asummer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: / Rough winds do shakethe darling buds of 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 12
2. What though thefield be lost?/ All is not lost; the unconquerableWill,/And study of revenge, immortal hate……these lines are from John Milton’s______.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. ChristianDoctrine
3. Byron’s famous poem She Walks inBeauty 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______ had called “ a lost generation.”
A.Gertrude Stein
B.Henry James
C. William Faulkner
D.Ezra Pound
5. The famous and summary poetic line “Beautyis 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 Melancholy
6. Tess of the D’Urbervilleswas written by ______who is also the author of his first novel Poor Man and the Lady.
A.Jane Austen
B.Thomas Hardy
C. OscarWilde
D.William Faulkner
7.Imagist poems are mainly composed in the form of ______ .
A.blank verse
B.free verse
C. sonnet
D.quatrain
8.Virginia Woolf belongs to ______ school.
A.stream of consciousness
B.metaphysical
C. sentimentalism
D.surrealism
9. From her novel, we can deduce JaneAusten’s view of life is ______ .
A.romantic
B.sentimental
C.pessimistic
D.realistic
10. MarkTwain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______ .
A.local color
B. black humor
C. irony
D.interior monologue
11. OfStudies is written by English essayist named ______ .
A.William Shakespeare
B.Geoffrey Chaucer
C. FrancisBacon
D.William Blake
12. The Renaissance, originallyindicating revival of classical (Greek and Roman) arts and sciences after thedark age 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.naturalism
13. The Spenserian Stanza is a fixed forminvented by Edmund Spencer for his epic poem ______.
A.The Shepherd’s Calendar
B.Colin Clouts Come HomeAgain
C.TheLast Four Things
D.The Faerie Queen
14. “The apparitionof these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.” This line isfrom Ezra Pound’s poem, In a Station ofthe Metro, which reflects the principlesof ______.
A. imagism
B. surrealism
C. symbolism
D. post-modernism
15. CharlotteBronte is the most ambitious writer among Bronte sisters, whose best novel is______.
A.The professor
B.Shirley
C. Wuthering Heights
D.Jane Eyre
16. Carl Sandburg is the leadingpopulist in Modern American poetry. He describes fog in his poem Fog as a ______ by using the figurative speech of metaphor.
A.Cat
B.dog
C. frog
D.butterfly
17. “To see a world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower,/Holdinfinity in the palm of your hand/ And eternity in an hour.” In this line, whatkind of figurative speech is used?
A.Simile
B.metaphor
C. understatement
D.metonymy
18 ______ is the first English poet to employ the neo-classic heroic couplet and quatrainin his poems, who is credited with havingreformed English poetry.
AThomas Gray
BAlexander Pope
C John Donne
DJohn Dryden
19.Romanticism in America literature stretches from ______ to the break forth of American Civil War.
A. early 17th C
B. early 18th C
C. early 19th C
D. Spanish-American War
20. Autobiography andbiography belong to the major forms of ______, the purpose of which is to give a presumably accurateaccounting of a person’s life.
A. fiction
B. non-fiction
C. documentary
D. diary
III. Answer the followingquestions as you are required (20 points in all, 1 point for each)
