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考试年度：2015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. Explain the following literary terms. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

(25 points, 5 points for each.)

1. Enlightenment

2. Metaphysical poetry

3. The theatre of the absurd

4. Transcendentalism

5. Dramatic monologue

II. For each statement there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the

one that best completes the statement. (20 points, 1 point for each)

1. _____ can be justly termed England’s national epic, and its most striking feature

is the use of ____.

A. Cynewulf , alliteration B. Beowulf , alliteration

C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, D. Robin Hood, rhyme

rhyme

2. The 18th Englishman, descriptions of fantastic lands visited by him, and their social systems and is always regarded as a bitter sarcasm and deadly irony of the contemporary England.

A. Samuel Johnson, Gulliver’s TravelsB. Alexander Pope, The Rape of the

Lock

C. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe D. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels great tragedies?

A. King Lear B. Romeo and Juliet

C. Macbeth D. Othello

4. , Byron’s greatest work, was written in the prime of his creative power and still remained unfinished when the poet’s life was ended by a romantic and generous death.

A. Don Juan B. Giaour

C. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage D. Manfred and________—marked the break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century, i.e. with classicism.

A. Lyrical Ballads, Robert Southey B. The Prelude, Samuel Taylor

Coleridge

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