湖师大研究生入学考试试题
湖南师范大二OO二年攻读硕士学位
研究生入学考试试题
学科、专业：英语语言文学
考试科目：英语文学
考试时间：180分钟
说明：
1. 此试题只限于文学方向的考生使用;
2. 答案作在答卷纸上。
Ⅰ.Multiple choice (15%)
1. Shakespeare wrote all of the following plays EXCEPT
a. Twelfth night b. The Merchant of Venice
c. Dr. Faustus d. The Tempest
2. Angel Clare is a character in
a. Pilgrim’s Progress b. Vanity Fair
c. Tess of the D’ Urbervilles d. Pickwick Papers.
3. Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope is a didactic poem on the art of poetry
written in
a. free verse b. heroic couplets
c. blank verse d, dramatic monologue
4. Which of the following is an author of Gothic stories?
a. Edgar Allan Poe b. O. Henry
c. Sherwood Andersen d. Jack London
5. The Mill on the Floss is written by
a. Charlotte Bronte b. Jane Austen
c. Mrs. Gaskell d. George Eliot
6. James Joyce’s Ulysses is most noted for its use of
a. psychoanalysis b. the omniscient point of view
c. the stream of consciousness technique d. the flashback technique
7. The title of William Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury is a reference to
a. Shakespeare b. Byron
c. the Bible d. Greek mythology
8. “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun…” are the opening lines of John Keats’
a. “Ode to Autumn” b. “Ode to a Nightingale”
c. “On the Grasshopper and Cricket” d.” Ode to a Grecian Urn”
9. Jane Austen did NOT write
a. Pride and Prejudice b. Sense and Sensibility
c. Emma d. Jane Eyre
10. Leaves lf Grass is a book of poems by
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a. Emily Dickinson b. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
c. Robert Frost d. Walt Whitman
11. The most remarkable rhetorical device used in “ A Modest Proposal” is
a. apostrophe b. personification
c. irony d. parallelism
12. According to Ernest Hemingway, all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain, and that book is
a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
c. Old Life on the Mississippi d. The Gilded Age
13. The story of The Grapes of Wrath is set in
a. the American Civil War b, the American Revolution
c. the Spanish Civil War d. the Great Depression
14. Which of the following authors does NOT belong to American Romanticism?
a. Herman Melville b, Henry David Thoreau
c. Washington Irving d. Stephen Crane
15. Death of a Salesman is a play by
a. Eugene O’ Neil b. Arthur Miller
c. Tennessee Williams d. Lillian Hellman
Ⅱ, Place as many of the following works in their proper century as you can, give the full name of the author, and indicate whether each is a poem, a play, a novel, etc.(15%)
Work Century Author Genre
Wuthering Heights
Of Studies
Sons and Lovers (Do on separate answer sheet)
To His Coy Mistress
Ⅲ, Analyze the following excerpts and answer the questions listed below (20%)
1 Seven years ago, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and had brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour, such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before…
(1) Name the work from which this passage is taken.
(2) Introduce the author briefly.
(3) Comment on the significance of the work.
2 I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that made all the difference.
(1) Identify the poem from which this stanza is taken as well as the poet
(2) What is the poem about
(3) Discuss the most remarkable poetical figure in the poem, of which the choice
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between “two roads” is an example
Ⅳ, Define briefly but precisely any ten of the following literary terms and mention an author or a work that may be related to each of them (20%)
sonnet
ode
Blank verse
eye rhyme
gothic novel
romantic poetry
synesthesia
tension
comedy
perspective
defamiliarization
metaphor
showing
telling
Ⅴ. Tell the author and work from which the following excerpts are taken, and explain the underlined parts according to the context (30%)
1. By chance, or nature’
2. They perfect and are perfected by natural experience; for natural abilities are like
natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions
3. …Ifor which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that
4. Miss Sharp’s father was an artist, given lessons of drawing at Miss
Pinkerton’s school. He was a clever man; a pleasant companion; a careless student; with a
5. To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
6. ‘ But being too happy in thine happiness,--------
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
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In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
7. Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,
Slipped by the pools that stand in drains,
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.
8. out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps, leaning a little backward and
9. But at last, in time, Hadleyburg had the ill luck to offend a passing
stranger---possibly without knowing it, certainly without caring, for Hadleyburg was sufficient
10. I had the first book to my mother. Perhaps it was a grammar, perhaps a history, or geography.
I take a last the page as I gave it into her hand, and start off aloud at a
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