温州大学821英语文学及文化A2014年考研真题考研专业课真题
● 摘要
2014年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题(A) 科目代码及名称: 821 英语文学及文化 适用专业：英语语言文学
（请考生在答题纸上答题，在此试题纸上答题无效）
第一部分 英语文学（共80分）
I. Identify the following works and quotations with their authors, write your answers on the Answer Sheet. （10分）
1. The Fairy Queen
2. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
3. “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business.”
4. Prometheus Unbound
5. “But O, as to embrace me she inclined,
I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.”
6. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
7. Jude the Obscure
8. The Waste Land
9. Life on Mississippi
10. The Sun Also Rises
II. Explain FOUR of the following literary terms in about 50 wards for each. （20分） Poet laureate
American Romanticism
Art for art’s sake
Dramatic monologue
Stream of consciousness
Psychoanalysis
Poststructuralism
III. Choose TWO from the following topics and then do according to the requirement in about 100 words for each.（20分）
1. What are the different aspects between the literature of Elizabethan period and the literature of the Revolution period?
2. What is the strength and weakness of English critical realism?
3. The Scarlet letter is notable for its allegory and symbolism, and it has been considered the first American symbolic novel. Try to discuss the function of allegory and symbolism by taking examples from the novel.
4. Why do we say Philip Freneau heralded American literary independence?
5. Choose one of the following authors and make a comment on any one of his/her literary works: Alice Munro, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner.