2012英语专业英美文学模拟试题二

1. Define the following literary terms (40/150,10×4):

1. Ahab as in Moby Dick

2. Heathcliff as in Wuthering Heights

3. Tess Durbeyfield

4. Imagism

5. Lady Macbeth

6. Realism

7. Romanticism

8. Neoclassicism

9. Allegory

10. Conflict

II. Literary Analysis (30/150, 2×15)

1. Summarize Ernest Hemingway's literary achievements.

2. Briefly introduce Ezra Pound’s view on the Imagist poetry.

III. Questions about Literary Works. (80/150, 8×10)

1. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou are more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometimes declines,

By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow' st

Nor shall Death brag thou wand’ rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow' st

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see

So long live this, and this gives life to thee.

a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.

b. What kind of sonnet is employed in the selection? What are the features of this kind of sonnet?