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南开大学2004年研究生入学考试试题

考试科目：英美文学 专业：英语语言文学

Part One Defining The Literary Terms

Directions: give brief explanations to the following terms and write all your answers on the Answer Sheets. (30 points)

1. allegory

2. tragicomedy

3. alliteration

4. stream of consciousness

5. lyric

6. gothic novel

7. free verse

8. iambic pentameter

9. heroic couplet

10. meter

11. old English

12. sonnet

13. point of view

14.blank verse

Part Two: Analysis of Literary Works

Directions: Read the following selections and answer briefly the questions in your own words.

Please write all your answers on the Answer Sheet. (60 points)

Selection One

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

A Slave Warehouse! Perhaps some of my readers conjure up horrible visions of such a place. They fancy some foul, obscure den, some horrible Tartarus “informis, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.” But no, innocent friend! In these days men have learned the art of sinning expertly and genteelly, so as not to shock the eyes and senses of respectable society. Human property is high in the market; and is therefore well fed, well cleaned, tended and looked after, that it may come to sale sleek, and strong, and shining. A slave warehouse in New Orleans is a house externally not much unlike many others, kept with neatness; and where every day you may see arranged, under a sort of shed along the outside, rows of men and women, who stand there as a sign of the property sold within.

1. What is the social significance of this novel? Discuss it with reference to its theme.

2. What are the features of local colorism? Discuss the local colorism with reference to this novel. Selection Two

Lady Lazarus (Sylvia Plath)

I have done it again.

one year in every ten

I manage it—

A sort of walking miracle, my skin

Bright as a Nazi lampshade,