广东财经大学英美文学2012考研研究生入学考试考研真题
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考试年度:2012年 考试科目代码及名称:804-英美文学 适用专业:050201 英语语言文学
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I. Define the following five terms.
(25 points in all, 5 points for each within 400 words)
1. English Renaissance
2. English Enlightenment
3. English Critical realism
4. Puritanism in Colonial America
5. Naturalism in American literary creation
II. Multiple choice: In each of the following twenty statements, there are four choices marked by A, B, C, and D. Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the statement. (20 points in all, 1 point for each)
1. is England’s national epic, and John the greatest English epic.
A. Beowulf … Paradise Lost
B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight … Paradise Regained
C. The Robin Hood Ballads … Samson Agonistes
D. King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table … Paradise Lost
2. The greatest of the English humanists Utopia .
A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Thomas More D. Francis Bacon
3. Shakespeare wrote a cycle of 154 sonnets, rhymed uniformly ____________.
A. ababcdcdefefgg B. aabbccddeeffgg
C. ababccddefefgg D. ababcdcdeeffgg
4. The image of an enterprising Englishman of the 18th century was created by ______
in his famous A. Jonathan Swift … Gulliver’s Travels
B. Oliver Goldsmith … The Vicar of Wakefield
C. Edward Gibbon … The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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