广东财经大学804英美文学2014年考研初试真题

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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:2014         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
[友情提醒:请在考点提供的专用答题纸上答题,答在本卷或草稿纸上无效!]
I. Define the following terms.25 points in all, 5 points for each)
1.Novel
2. Lyric
3. Charles Dickens
4. T. S. Eliot
5. Tragedy
II. Multiple choice. In this part, there are 20 statements or
questions; in each of them, there are four choices marked by a, b, c,
and d. Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the
statement or question. (20 points in all, 1 point for each)
1. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more
temperate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,…”. These are the first
3 lines of ’s poem .
A. Thomas Hardy; Sonnet 8 B. William Shakespeare; Sonnet 18
C. Walt Whitman; Sonnet 18 D. Robert Burns; Sonnet 12
2. What though the field be lost?/ All is not lost; the unconquerable Will,/And study
of revenge, immortal hate……these lines are from John Milton’s _______.
A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes D. Christian Doctrine
3. Byron’s famous poem She Walks in Beauty is a _______poetry.
A. realistic B. modern C. romantic D. natural
4. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, three years later, Ernest Hemingway
became the spokesman for what______ had called “ a lost generation.”
A. Gertrude Stein B. Henry James C. William Faulkner D. Ezra Pound
5. The famous and summary poetic line “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” is taken from
John Keats .
A. “Ode to the West Wind” B. “Ode to the Nightingale
C. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” D. “Ode on Melancholy
6. Tess of the D’Urbervilles was written by who is also the author of his first
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novel Poor Man and the Lady.
A. Jane Austen B. Thomas Hardy C. Oscar Wilde D. William Faulkner
7. Imagist poems are mainly composed in the form of ________.
A. blank verse B. free verse C. sonnet D. quatrain
8. Virginia Woolf belongs to ___________school.
A. stream of consciousness B. metaphysical C. sentimentalism D. surrealism
9. From her novel, we can deduce Jane Austen’s view of life is_____.
A. romantic B. sentimental C.pessimistic D. realistic
10. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for
his______.
A. local color B. black humor C. irony D. interior monologue
11. Of Studies is written by English essayist named_______.
A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Francis Bacon D. William Blake
12. The Renaissance, originally indicating revival of classical (Greek and Roman) arts
and sciences after the dark age of medieval obscurantism, is actually a movement
stimulated by a series of historical events. The keynote of renaissance is _______.
A. realism B. romanticism C. humanism D. naturalism
13. The Spenserian Stanza is a fixed form invented by Edmund Spencer for his epic
poem________.
A. The Shepherd’s Calendar B. Colin Clouts Come Home Again
C.The Last Four Things D. The Faerie Queen
14. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This
line is from Ezra Pound’s poem, In a Station of the Metro, which reflects the
principles of ______.
A. imagism B. surrealism C. symbolism D. post-modernism
15. Charlotte Bronte is the most ambitious writer among Bronte sisters, whose best
novel is_________.
A. The professor B. Shirley C. Wuthering Heights D. Jane Eyre
16. Carl Sandburg is the leading populist in Modern American poetry. He describes
fog in his poem Fog as a _____by using the figurative speech of metaphor.
A. Cat B. dog C. frog D. butterfly
17. “To see a world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower,/Hold infinity in
the palm of your hand/ And eternity in an hour.” In this line, what kind of
figurative speech is used?
A. Simile B. metaphor C. understatement D. metonymy
18 ______is the first English poet to employ the neo-classic heroic couplet and
quatrain in his poems, who is credited with having reformed English poetry.
A Thomas Gray B Alexander Pope C John Donne D John Dryden
19. Romanticism in America literature stretches from______to the break forth of
American Civil War.
A. early 17th C B. early 18th C C. early 19th C D. Spanish-American War
20. Autobiography and biography belong to the major forms of _______, the purpose
of which is to give a presumably accurate accounting of a person’s life.
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