江西财经大学
2005—2006学年第一学期《英美文学鉴赏》课试卷A
课程代码：04763 课程学时：48
任课教师：季大方
I. Choose the right one to fill the sentences: ( 15 %)
1. “Poetry” comes from a Greek verb which means_______. A. to write B. to find C. to make D. to compose
2. A convention is an _____ between author and audience that an idea will be presented in a particular way.
A. argument B. amendment C. arrangement D. agreement
3. The aside is the convention in which a character momentarily turns away from the character to whom he or she is either listening or speaking and addresses the audience ______.
A. frankly B. forcefully C. secretly D. directly
4. Which of the following is not a traditional symbol standing for death? A. thunder B. sunset C. sleep D. night
5. In Keats’s poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, we can say the two lines “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter…” belongs to _________. A. metaphor B. conceit C. paradox D. ambiguity
6. A character can confidently expect certain events to happen, but you will see that things won't work out as expected. The gap is then between ______. A. appearance and reality B. intention and result C. words and truth D. words and meaning
7. A ______ is a specially made voice or self who speaks in a poem. It means the poem is written in the first person singular.
A. person B. personal C. personnel D. persona
8. If you want to find out the crisis of any Shakespeare’s play, you can look directly at the act ______ -- usually scene one and/or scene two. A. two B. four C. three D. five
9. Love is said to be a madness, a plague or a game. The thing that these three have in common is _________.
A. transformation B. translation C. transplantation D. transportation
10. Relief is the relaxing of ____ that we experience when we discover the outcome of the story.
A. worrying B. frightening C. nervousness D. tension
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II. Explain the following briefly: ( 30%)
1. Tell the difference between a story and a plot with an example:
2. What are the two very common causes of plots which occur in many novels?
3. Any poem can be said to be:
4. What does Catharsis mean?
5. What is the distinction between “you” and “thou”?
6. What is the difference between Petrarchan sonnet and Shakespearian sonnet?
III. Find out the RHYME SCHEMES in the following poem: (5%)
Symphony in Yellow
By Oscar Wilder
An omnibus across the bridge Crawls like a yellow butterfly, And, here and there, a passerby Shows like a little restless midge.
Big barges full of yellow hay
Are moored against the shadowy wharf, And, like a yellow silken scarf, The thick fog hangs along the quay.
The yellow leaves begin to fade And flutter from the Temple elms, And at my feet the pale green Thames Lies like a rod of rippled jade.
Note: omnibus: a bus midge:蠓虫 barge: 驳船 Flutter: 飘动 elms: 榆树
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IV. Match the following authors with their works: (10%)
1 Jane Austen A Jane Eyre 2 Wordsworth B Tess of the D’ Urbervilles 3 Dickens C Paradise Lost 4 Dylan Thomas D Sons and Lovers 5 Charlotte Bront? E Emma 6 John Milton F To Kill a Mockingbird 7 D.H. Lawrence G Ode to the West Wind 8 P. B. Shelley H Upon Westminster Bridge 9 Hardy I Great Expectations 10 Harper Lee J Do not go Gentle into that Good Night V. Translate the following poem into Chinese: (40%)
First Love
By John Clare
I never was struck before that hour With love so sudden and so sweet, Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower And stole my heart away complete. My face turned pale as deadly pale. My legs refused to walk away,
And when she looked, what could I ail? My life and all seemed turned to clay.
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And then my blood rushed to my face And took my eyesight quite away, The trees and bushes round the place Seemed midnight at noonday. I could not see a single thing, Words from my eyes did start --
They spoke as chords do from the string,
And blood burnt round my heart.
Are flowers the winter’s choice? Is love’s bed always snow?
She seemed to hear my silent voice, Not love’s appeals to know. I never saw so sweet a face As that I stood before.
My heart has left its dwelling place And can return no more.
Notes: 1. ail折磨, 使烦恼 2. clay粘土, 泥土 3. chords和弦 4. string弦
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江西财经大学
2005—2006学年第一学期《英美文学鉴赏》课试卷B
课程代码：04763 课程学时：48
任课教师：季大方
I. Choose the right one to fill the sentences: ( 15 %)
1. “Poetry” comes from a Greek verb which means_______.
a. to write b. to find c. to make d. to compose
2. Similes and metaphors can be dealt with together, because they both ______. a. speak of one thing in terms of another b. compare different things
c. show the difference of any two things d. find the similarities of different things
3. Personification is giving non-human things human _____. a. qualities b. nature c. action d. behavior
4. Garden in western culture often has a symbolic meaning: _______. a. beautiful thing b. perfect order c. hard work d. fine arrangement 5. Winter often stands for ________.
a. cruel and hard b. firm and strong c. old age and death d. sick and dying
6. If the meaning in a line of a poem is left unfinished and there is no punctuation at the end, it is called _______.
a. carry-on b. break-in c. go-away d. run-on lines
7. _______is the name given to the effect of sounds of words imitating, or miming, the sounds of the object．
a. Alliteration b. Consonance c. Assonance d. Onomatopoeia
8. A character can confidently expect certain events to happen, but you will see that things won't work out as expected. The gap is then between ______. a. appearance and reality b. intention and result c．words and truth d. words and meaning
9. A convention is an _____ between author and audience that an idea will be presented in a particular way.
a. argument b. amendment c. arrangement d. agreement
10. Shakespeare and his contemporaries usually divided their plays into _____ acts. A. three B. five C. seven D. four
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