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2013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

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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%

1. Love's Labour's Lost

2. Advancement of Learning

3. Wuthering Heights

4. Ivanhoe

5. “O, well for the fisherman's boy,

That he shouts with his sister at play!

O, well for the sailor lad,

That he sings in his boat on the bay!”

6. The Last the Mohicans

7. Moby Dick

8. “Because I could not stop for Death—

He kindly stopped for me—

The Carriage held but just Ourselves—

And Immortality.”

9. “Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.”

10. Go Down, Moses

II. Explain FOUR of the following literary terms in about 50 wards for each. 20% Romance

Blank verse

Tragic flaw

American Modernism

Nobel Prize in Literature

New Criticism

Postcolonialism

Comparative literature

III. Choose TWO from the following topics and then do according to the requirement in about 100 words for each. 20%

1. Briefly comment on the influence of KJV Bible on English literature.

2.Briefly comment on British Literature presented in 2012 London Olympic Opening Ceremony.3. What are the symbolic meanings of Thomas Hardy’s descriptions of environments in Tess of the D’Urbervilles?

4. What are Henry David Thoreau's views on nature and individualism and How they are expressed in Thoreau's Walden ?

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