中国人民大学英美文化英语发展史英语语言史2004考研试题研究生入学考试试题考研真题
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中国人民大学2004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11日下午
考题编号：442
英美文学
Ⅰ. Define, in complete sentences, the following terms and phrases in English and American literature.(12%)
1. narrative poetry
2. naturalism
3. acrostic stanza
4. sentimentalism
5. historical novel
6. supreme fiction
Ⅱ. Place each of the following works in its proper century, indicate its genre, and give the
full name of the author.(20%)
1. Civil Disobedience
2. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
3. My Last Duchess
4.Ash-Wednesday
5. Vanity Fair
6. The Indian Burying Ground
7.The School for Scandal
8. The House of the Seven Gables
9. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
10. Martin Eden
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%) Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers.
And things are not what they seem. And our hearts though stout and brave.
Still, like muffled drums, are beating.
Funeral marches to the grave.
2. “What have I done—what have I done! I have not told of anything that interferes with or belies my love for you. You don’t think I planned it, do you? It is in your own mind what you are angry at. Angel; it is not in me. O, it is not in me, and I am not that deceitful woman you think me! ”
“H’m—well. Not deceitful, my wife; but not the same. No, not the same. But do not make me reproach you. I have sworn that I will not; and I will do everything to avoid it.”
But she went on pleading in her distraction; and perhaps said things that would have been better left to silence.