10.According to Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury is a story of “______.”
A. lost generation B. lost innocence
C. farmers D. industrial labors
Ⅳ.For each of the questions listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work.(20%)
1.“Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields,
And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls,
Melodious birds sing madrigals.”
2.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.”
3.“He pulled back the blanket from the Indian’s head. His hand came away wet. He mounted on the edge of the lower bunk with the lamp in one hand and looked in. The Indian lay with his face toward the wall. His throat had been cut from ear to ear.”
4.“Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is vanity; and at that town there is a fair kept, called vanity Fair,…”
5.“And because I am happy & dance & sing
They think they have done me no injury,
And are gone to praise God & his Priest & king,
Who make up a heaven of our misery.”
Ⅴ.Give brief answers to the following questions.(20%)
1.Why has Fielding been regarded as “Father of the English novel?”
2.What’s the symbolic meaning of Browning’s poem,“The Ring and the Book?”
3.What is literary naturalism?
4.How’s Yeats’ style like?
Ⅵ.Short Essay Questions:(20%)
1.What’s the artistic tendency of D.H.Lawrence?
2.Give a brief discussion of Henry James’ literary achievement. |
