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2014年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题

考试科目：845英美文学基础知识及运用

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1. Name a representative work by the following writers and then give a brief summary on the writer’s literary contribution. (20 points)

1 Earnest Hemingway

2 William Wordsworth

3 John Milton

4 William Blake

5 Jane Austen

II Define the following literary terms (30 points)

1 Soliloquy

2 Elegy

3 Sonnet

4 Stream of consciousness

5 Aestheticism

6 Imagism

III Read the following selected passages and answer the questions briefly. (50 points)

1 What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angle in apprehension, how like a god!

Questions:

1) Identify the title of the play from which the passage is selected and its author. (2 points)

2) In what way does the passage reflect humanistic spirit? (3 points)

2 One short sleep past, we wake eternally,

And death shall be no more; Death, thou shall die.

Questions:

1) Identify the title of the poem from which the lines are selected and its author. (2 points)

2) Make a comment on the poet’s attitude towards death and its significance? (3 points)

3 My thoughts were now wholly employed about securing my self against either savages, if any should appear, or wild beasts, if any were in the island, and I had many thoughts of the method how to do this, and what kind of dwelling to make, whether I should make me a cave in the earth, or tent upon the earth.

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