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中国人民大学2003年研究生入学考试试题

招生专业：英语语言文学

考试科目：英美文学 英美文化 英语发展史 英语语言史

考试时间：1月19日下午

考题编号：442

一、英美文学

Ⅰ. Define, in complete sentences, the following terms and phrases in English and American

literature. (12 points)

1. neo-classicism

2. blank verse

3. lyric

4.terza rima

5. modernism

6. stream-of-consciousness

Ⅱ. Place each of the following works in its proper century, indicate its genre, and give the

full name of the author.(20 points)

1. In a Station of the Metro

2. From the People, Yes

3. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

4. Mrs. Warren’s Profession

5. The Hollow Men

6. Self-Reliance

7. A Room of One’s Own

8. The Sound and the Fury

9. Break, Break, Break

10. A Modest Proposal

Ⅲ. Identify each of the following quotations by giving the title of the work and the full name

of the author, and explain the implications of the underlined parts.(12 points)

1. I placed a jar in Tennessee,

And round it was, upon a hill

The jar was round upon the ground

And tall and of a port in air.

The jar was gray and bare.

It did not give of bird or bush,

Like nothing else in Tennessee.

2. “I thought, Angel, that you loved me—me, my very self! If it is I you do love, O how can