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广东财经大学硕士研究生入学考试试卷
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 natio
nal 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 18
th
century sees the birth of the greatest satirist in
English literature:
.
His
masterpiece
,
comprises
the
extraordinary
adventures
of
an
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
Travels
B.
Alexander
Pope,
The
Rape
of
the
Lock
C. Daniel Defoe,
Robinson
Crusoe
D. Jonathan Swift,
Gulliver’
s
Travels
3. Which of the
following works is NOT
considered as
William Shakespeare’s four
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
Pilgr
image
D.
Manfred
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5.
The
publication
of
in
1798
—
the
joint
work
of
William
Wordsworth
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
C.
Lyrical
Ballads
,
Samuel
Taylor
D.
Biographia
Literaria
,
Samuel
Coleridge
Taylor Coleridge
6.
William
Makepeace
Thackeray’s
masterpiece
is
,
and
the
title
of
the
novel is taken from
Bunyan’s greatest work
.
A.
Vanity Fair,
Paradise Regained
B.
Vanity Fair, Pilgrim’
s
Progress
C.
Vanity Fair, Samson
Agonistes
D.
The
Book
of
Snobs,
Pilgrim’
s
Progress
7.
established himself both as a writer
and as a spokesman for the school
of
“Art for Art’s Sake.”
A.
Thomas Gray
B. Charles Lamb
C. Oscar Wilde
D. Walter
Scott
8. __________, written by P. B.
Shelley’s wife, Mary Shelley, is regarded the best
of its kind, ______, in the
19
th
century England.
A.
Prometheus
Unbound
, Gothic novel
B.
Frankenstein
, Realistic
novel
C.
Adonis
,
Romantic novel
D.
Frankenstein
, Gothic novel
9.
“April
is
the
cruellest
month,
breeding
/
Lilacs
out
of
the
dead
land,
mixing
/
Memory
and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring
rain.” These lines are taken
from
T.
S.
Eliot’s
modern
classic
poem_
______,
which
remind
us
the
opening
lines
of the “General Prologue” in
The
Canterbury Tales
by the greatest
literary
figure_______ in
14
th
century England.
A.
Four Quartets
,
Geoffrey Chaucer
B.
The
Waste Land
, Geoffrey Chaucer
C.
Hollow Man
,
Edmund Spencer
D.
The Waste
Land
, John Milton
10.
Joseph
Conrad’s
_________
is
central
to
the
evolution
of
what
is
called
postcolonial
fiction,
and
says
something
that
only
said
in
a
novel:
A
historian
looking at
European colonialism will arrive at historical
judgments.
A.
Heart of
Darkness
B.
Nostromo
C.
Lord Jim
D.
Typhoon
11._________, with his famous poem,
“Annabel Lee”, justified his poetic idea that
the death of a beautiful woman, is
“unquestionably, the most poetical
topic in the
world”.
A. W. B. Yeats
B. Edgar
Allan Poe
C. Ezra Pound
D.
W. H. Auden
12.
Around
1920,
the
American
literary
world
rediscovered
an
almost
forgotten
book
and
suddenly
became
aware
of
a
major
American
writer.
The
book
was
_______, a tremendous
chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a
seemingly
supernatural white whale.
A.
Moby-Dick
B.
Omoo
C.
The Last of the Mohicans
D.
Billy Budd
13.
With
Warner,
Mark
Twain
collaborated
on
__________,
a
satire
that
gave
its
2
name to the era of corrupt
materialism that followed the American Civil War.
A.
The Golden Age
B.
The Silver Age
C.
The Gilded Age
D.
The Bronze Age
14.________,
Stephen
crane’s
finest
literary
achievement,
depicts
a
picture
of
American Civil War in a
naturalistic way.
A.
War Is
Kind
B.
The Black
Riders
C.
The Red
Badge of Courage
D.
The Age of Innocence
15. Hemingway’s novel
The
Sun Also Rises
, brilliantly captures
his years in Paris as
one of
______, a name given by the
writer Gertrude Stein.
A. The Beat
Generation
B. The Lost Generation
C. The Angry Young Men
D.
The Younger Generation
16. By the end
of his life he had become a national bard; when he
was eighty-seven
he read his poetry at
the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. The
poet is
___________.
A. Ezra
Pound
B. T. S. Eliot
C. E. E.
Cummings
D. Robert Frost
17.
As a poet and as a painter, _________uses the
small letters, the unconventional
syntax, and the unusual spacing of
words, to express individuality and participate
in what he called “The New
Art”.
A. Ezra Pound
B. E. E. Cummings
C. William
Carlos Williams
D. Wallace Stevens
18._______, an epic depiction of one
dispossessed Oklahoma family’s migration to
California
in
search
a
new
life,
written
by
___________,
is
among
the
most
widely read novel of
20
th
century.
A.
The
Grape
of
Wrath
,
John
B.
Of Mice and
Men
, John Steinbeck
Steinbeck
C.
In
Our Time
, Ernest Hemingway
D.
Light in
August
, William Faulkner
19.
Which of the following writers is NOT a Nobel
Prize Winner?
A. Ezra Pound
B. Ernest Hemingway
C.
William Faulkner
D. Saul Bellow
20. Early in 1920s the most prominent
of the new American playwrights, _______,
established
an
international
reputation
with
such
plays
as
The
Emperor
Jones
,
Anna
Christie
and
The Hairy
Ape
.
A. Arthur Miller
B. Tennessee Williams
C. Walt Whitman
D. Eugene
O’Neill
III.
Matching.
Find the relevant match from column B for each
item in column A
and put the letters on
the answer sheet. (20 points, 1 point for each.)
Section A
Column A
Column B
1.
Francis Bacon
A.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
2.
John Milton
B.
The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow
3.
Herman Melville
C.
Seize the Day
4.
W. B. Yeats
D.
A Streetcar
Named Desire
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