广东商学院硕士研究生入学考试试卷
考试年度:2013年 考试科目代码及名称:807-英美文学 试卷编号:A卷
适用专业:050201-英语语言文学
I. Choose five of the following seven terms to define. (25 points in all, 5 points for each)
1. Comedy
2. Stream of consciousness
3. Classicism
4. Foot (of poetry)
5. Realism
6. American Transcendentalism
7. Unitarianism
II. Fill in the blanks according to the related literary facts. (20 points in all, 1 point for each)
1. It is likely that in Eliot’s abundant use of literary reference in The Waste of Land he was influenced by .
2. In vivid and graceful prose, Fitzgerald had portrayed the of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of love, splendor, and fulfilled desires.
3. applies the principles of scientific determinism to fiction. It views human beings as animals in the natural world responding to environmental forces and internal stresses and drives, over none of which they have control and none of which they fully understand.
4. Henry James’ keen observation of human beings and deep understanding of them have made him one of the founding fathers of the fiction.
5. It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made ______ one of the greatest American novelists.
6. Realism first appeared in the United States in the literature of , and an amalgam if romantic plots and realistic descriptions of things were immediately observable.
7. The eighteenth-century England is also, and better, known as the _________ or the Age of Reason.
8. is a basic feature governing the structure of poetry, whether in the planned succession of long and short syllables, as in Greek and Latin poetry, or in the use of accent and meter, as in modern poetry.
9. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” the quoted line comes from Shelley’s “________”.