英国文学选读复习重点,2011
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1 英国文学选读复习 June, 2010 Part I 复习重点章节
1. William Shakespeare; 2. Francis Bacon; 3. John Donne; 4. William Blake; 5. Jane Austen; 6. Charles Dickens; 7. Thomas Hardy; 8. Oscar Wilde; 9. William Butler Yeats; 10. James Joyce; 11. D.H. Lawrence;
Part II 考试题型 1. In this part you are going to explain the following literary terms briefly and to give examples from the stories you have learned from the course to illustrate the terms. (about 15 points)
Examples character and characterization; symbol and allegory, theme, point of view, etc.)
2. Analysis of short stories and novels (about 40 points) Example 1 Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character. Her mind was less difficult to develop. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.
Questions What can we learn from this short passage about Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet? What was the tone of the passage? Does this passage illustrate the style of Jane Austen? 2
Example 2 One evening I went into the back drawing-room in which the priest had died. It was a dark rainy evening and here was no sound in the house. Through one of the broken panes I heard the rain impinge upon the earth, the fine incessant needles of water paying in the sodden beds. Some distant lamp or lighted window gleamed below me. I was thankful that I could see so little. All my senses seemed to veil themselves and feeling that I was about to slip from them, I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: O Love! O Love! many times.
Questions What can we learn about “I” from this short passage? What was the meaning of the sentence “I was thankful that I could see so little.” ? What rhetorical device was used in this passage?
Example 3 “Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his spot with Tess. And the d’Urbervilles knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they rose, joined hands again, and went on.
Questions What is your understanding of the sentence “And the d’Urbervilles knight and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing”? Was justice really done? What is your understanding of the very end of the novel “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” by Thomas Hardy?
3. Analysis of the poems (about 30 points) Example 1 Little Lamb I’ll tell thee, Little Lamb I’ll tell thee! He is called by thy name, For he called himself a Lamb; He is meek & he is mild, He became a little child; I a child & thou a lamb, We are called by his name. Little Lamb God bless thee. 3
Little Lamb God bless thee. Questions Who is “he” in the third line of this stanza? What is the dominant feeling in this stanza? What are you understanding of the last two lines?
Example 2 Oh stay, three lies in one flea spare, Where we almost, nay more than married are. The flea is you and I, and this Our marriage bed and marriage temple is; Though parents grudge, and you, we are met, And cloistered in these living walls of jet. Though use make you apt to kill me, Let not do that, self-murder added be, And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.
Questions What extraordinary metaphors (conceits) do you find in this stanza? Give an example and explain it. What is the central idea in this stanza?
4. Paraphrasing (about 15 points) Example 1 Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, they e many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet on the other side, they are more cruel and hard-heated (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.
Example 2 Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious. Her vestal livery is but sick and green, And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.
Example 3 Thus conscious does make coward of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry
