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北京外国语大学

2002年硕士研究生入学考试

英美文学专业试题

The following exam will be graded on both what you say and how you say it. All answers must be written on the answer sheets.

I. Below are some terms that you might overhear literary critics say at a cocktail party in the English Department at BFSU. Explain SIX of them. (30 points)

1. ballad

2. Calvinism

3. dramatic irony

4. epic

5. metaphysical conceit

6. Oedipus complex

7. round character

8. transcendentalism

II. 1. Summarize the plot of the following story in your own words

(around 200 words). (20 points)

2. Comment on the narrative technique of the story. (20 points)

Continuity of Parks

He had begun to read the novel a few days before. He had put it down because of some urgent business conferences, opened it again on his way back to the estate by train; he permitted himself a slowly growing interest in the plot, in the characterizations. That afternoon, after writing a letter giving his power of attorney and discussing a matter of joint ownership with the manager of his estate, he returned to the book in the tranquility of his study which looked out upon the park with its oaks. Sprawled in his favorite armchair, its back toward the door-even the possibility of an intrusion would have irritated him, had he thought of it-he let his left hand caress repeatedly the green velvet upholstery and set to reading the final chapters. He remembered effortlessly the names and his mental images of the characters; the novel spread its glamour over him almost at once. He tasted the almost perverse pleasure of disengaging himself line by line from the things around him, and at the same time feeling his head rest comfortably on the green velvet of the chair with its high back, sensing that the cigarettes rested within reach of his hand, that beyond the great windows the air of afternoon danced under the oak trees in the park. Word by word, licked to the point where the images settled sown and took on color and movement, he was witness to the final encounter in the mountain cabin. The woman arrived first, apprehensive; now the lover came in, his face cut by the backlash of a branch. Admirably, she stanched the blood with her kisses, but he rebuffed her caresses, he had not come to perform again the ceremonies of a secret passion, protected by a world of dry leaves and furtive paths through the forest. The dagger warmed itself against his chest, and underneath liberty pounded, hidden close. A lustful, panting dialogue raced