英美文学史及作品赏析A

二、综合题

1.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.

“I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills

When all at once I saw a crowd

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

Questions:

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B. In several sentences, interpret the meaning of this stanza.

C. From the characteristics of this stanza, we can deduce which period it belongs to.

2.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.

“I shall be telling thi s with a sign

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ---

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.”

Question:

A. Who is the author of the poem?

B. Identify the title of the short poem from which this part is taken?

C. In one or two sentences, interpret the implied meaning of the last two lines

3.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English. “That was the cause, but yet per accidents, 這是起因，這也是偶然

For when we hear one rack the name of god, 因為我們一聽到有人侮辱上帝的名字

Abjure the scriptures and his Savoiour Christ, 放棄圣經和他的救主基督We fly in hope to get his glorious soul.” 我們就飛速而至來攫起他的靈魂Question:

A. Tell the title of the poem.

B. What does “rack” mean?

C. What is the play based on and give a brief introduction of it.

4.Give brief answers to the question in English.

In American literature what is the significance of “adventures of huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain?

5.Give brief answer to the question in English.

A.What are the similarities and differences between the three literary giants?

B.Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James, in terms of their literary orientation?

《英美文学史及作品赏析》

二、综合题

1.A. “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” By William Wordsworth.

B. Like a cloud flying over valleys and mountains, I was traveling. Suddenly to my surprise, I saw a grove of daffodils at the side of the lake, how beautiful they were, fluttering and dancing in the wind. This poem typically depicts the author respect for nature

C. The Romantic Period

2. A. Robert lee Frost

B. The Road Not Taken

C. confronted dilemma, one should be decisive and “took the one less traveled”

3. A. Dr. Faustus

B. Torment

C. It is based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.

4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and, especially, its sequence Adventures of Huckleberry Finn proved themselves to be the milestone in American literature, and thus firmly established Twain’s position in the literary world. The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the pre-Civil War Mississippi valley and it has moved millions of people of different ages and conditions all over the world. Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn marks the climax of Twain’s literary creativity. Hemingway once described the novel the one book forms which “a modern American literature comes.”

5. A. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Americans; Henry Jame s had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world” of man.

B. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way they lived, while Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. This particular concern about the local character of a region about as “local colorist,” a unique variation of American literary realism.