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How did the Lost Generation come into being in the literary history of the United States? Who were the leading figures o
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First World War|American|young men|disillusioned|expatriates|European countries|Pound|Frost|Fiztgerald|Hemingway|Faulkner
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What does Wordsworth mean when he said "All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in
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principle|Wordsworth|poetic|creation|preface|Lyrical Ballads|individual|sensations
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Discuss the artistic features of Shelley.s poems.
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lyrical|poet|classical|mythological|allusions|figures of speech|metaphor|personification|description
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Discuss the four periods of William Shakespeare.s dramatic career, the characteristics of his characters, plot and langu
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apprenticeship|individualized|tragedies|comedies|romantic tragicomedies|individuals|types|plot|vocabulary
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Discuss the change and growth of Robinson Crusoe and the ch aracteristics of him.
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change|teenager|fancies|sea|world|fortune|naive|shrewd|hardened
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Please elaborate Wordsworth’s theory of poetry, taking examples from the poems you have learned to support your ideas.
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Lyrical Ballads|emotions|recollected|tranquility|I wandered lonely as a cloud|nature|individual|common speech
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Why is Hardy regarded as a naturalistic writer in English literature? Discuss in relation to his novels you know.
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survival|fittest|fate|mysterious|supernatural|force|impotent|Fate
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Make a comment on the character of Jane Eyre, the heroine of the novel by Charlotte Bronte.
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orphan|child|poor|plain|governess|middle class|working|woman
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"A Modest Proposal" is a satire written by Swift and it is generally taken as a perfect model of satire. Gulliver.s Trav
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satirist|satires|corruption|religion|learning|Gulliver's Travels|English society|earnestness|A Modest Proposal|sincerity and detachment
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List three characters in Tess.
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Angel, Tess and Alec
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List three works of James Joyce
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Dubliners, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
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who are the three Bronte sisters?
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Charlotte, Emily and Anne
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List three characters of Tom Jones.
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Tom, Blifil and Sophia
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what is Bacon.s Of Studies about?
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the aims, ways and infulence of studies
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What is the belief of the neoclassicists about literature?
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According to the neoclassicists, all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers and those of the contemporary French ones. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy, and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity.
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Elizabeth Bennet is the heroine of Pride and Prejucide. What kind of character do you think Elizabeth Bennet is?
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Elizabeth is clever, alert, and observant. She is able to match wits with Darcy several times and with Colonel Fizwilliam, earning their respect and admiration. Fearless and frank, not rattled by the attack of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she wins a notable cictory, sending her ladyship away completely routed. She is independent but not infallible in her judgement-- taken in by the charm of the worthless Wickham. She cannot be blamed for misjudging Darcy. She shows flexibility, discernment and honesty of mind when she reads Darcy
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What is the most famous theme in Henry James.s fiction? What distinguishes him from other realist writers such as Mark T
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The most famous theme is "the international theme". His novels or short stories of the theme are always set against a larger international background, usually between Europe and America. They center around the conflict of the two cultures, represented by an innocent American and a sophisticated European. James is the founder of phychological realism for his psychoanalytical approach to his characters.
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The white whale, Moby Dick is endowed with symbolic meaning. What do you think it symbolizes
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To Ahab, the whale is an evil creature or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe. To Ishmael, the whale is an astonishing force, an immense power, which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful, but malignant at the same time. To the reader, it may be regarded as a symbol of nature or an instrument of God
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Do you know something about "Yoknapatawpha County?" What are the characteristics of Faulkner.s fiction?
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Yoknapatawpha County is an imagined place based on Faulkner
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Briefly state Mark Twain’ s magic power with language in his novels.
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His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect, and his sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical spoken language; His characters speak with a strong accent, which is true of his local colorism;Different characters from different literary or cultural backgrounds talk differently.
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What are the factors that gave rise to American naturalism?
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The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought; The influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters.
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Briefly introduce Blake’ s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
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Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils; Songs of Experience paints a different world, a world of misery, disease, war and repression with melancholy tone; The two books hold the similar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.
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Working through the tradition of a Christian humanism, Milton wrote Paradise Lost, intending to expose the ways of Satan
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At the center of the conflict between human love and spiritual duty lies Milton’s fundamental concern with freedom and choice; The freedom to submit to God’s prohibition on eating the apple; and the choice of disobedience made for love.
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What makes Sheridan the only important English dramatist of the 18th century?
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his plays are the links between Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw. They are true classics in English comedy and product of a dramatic genius. He is a well-versed theatrical man
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What are the characteristics of Byron.s works?
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they are violentattack on politics, religion and morals. They describe the novelty of oriental scenery and shows the easy, fluent and natural beauty of his verse.
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What are the "Wessex novels" of Thomas Hardy?
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They are the fictional and crude rural region in Wessex andHardy
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What are the features of Charles Dickens. novels?
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They provides a complete and realistic picture of the English bourgeoisie society. Many of them are about childhood experience and are famous for humor.
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What is the language style of Mark Twain?
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He uses vernacular and colloquial speech, concrete and direct words, simple and ungrammatical sentences.
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Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?
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The negative influence comes from Darwin
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What is expressionism?
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It is a reaction against materialism, describes individual reaction|against|symbolic|internal| Strinberg|Eugene
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What are the main features of Robert Browning’s poetry?
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He uses dramatic monologue, fast, rough and unmusical rhythm. His works include clipped and compressed syntax, similes and illustrations,non-poetic jarring diction.
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What contributions did Geoffrey Chaucher make to English literature？
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答案是：He celebrates earthly happiness and opposes asceticism and satirizes the social vices. His characters are with both typical qualities and individual dispositions. He uses the octosyllabic couplet and the heroic couplet. Canterbury Tales makes him the father of English poetry.
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Please comment on Alexander Pope’s literary achievements.
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An Essay on Criticism follows the neoclassicist tradition. The Rape of the Lock mocks the epic. He uses heroic couplet.Criticism|neoclassicist|epic|satiric|concise|smooth|graceful|well-balanced
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Give the symbolic meanings of characters Gerald and Birkin in the novel
Women in Love
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They are the symbols of spiritual deathand bourgeois ethics.spiritual|death|bourgeois|ethics|human|spontaneous
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What is the difference between the easy conceits and the difficult conceits employed in John Donne’s poetry？
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The former are mythology and natural objects, while the latter are concerned with law, psychology and philosophy|intellectual difficulties
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Comment on Robert Lee Frost’s poetic style.
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It uses traditional form/ryhme, New England speech, images, metaphors and symbols.rural life|spoken language
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Comment on the characteristics of Romantic writers in English history.
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It is a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, extols the faculty of imagination and nature.
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It is said that B. Shaw’ s plays reflect the dramatist’s Fabianist idea. Give one example.
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Mrs. Warren’ s Profession Widowers|class
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What’s the theme of Emily Bronte’ s Wuthering Heights?
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a story of revenge;From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused; it is also a love story.
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Then where are our relatives? My father? Our family friends? You claim the rights of a mother: the right to call me fool
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Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good forturen must be in want of a wife.
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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Mrs Bennet, considering her daughters
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Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the na
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Bunyan, The Pilgrim
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"To be or not to be-- that is the question."
Questions:
A. Identify the author.
B. From which work is the abov
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Shakespeare, Hamlet
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“Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal
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Shakespeare, Sonnet 18, permance of poetry
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“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume.
For every atom belonging to me as good b
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Whitman, song of myself, the theory of universailty and the singularity
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“I like to see it lap the Miles—
And lick the Valleys up—
And stop to feed itself at Tanks—
And then-prodigiosu
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Emily Dichinson, suspicion of the relationship between man and nature
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But it seemed that both his audacity and his respect were lost on Miss Daisy Miller. ‘I guess mother wouldn’t go—for you
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Henry James, Daisy Miller, visit an old castle
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“ ‘Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? So you think I am an automoton?—a machine without feelings? And can
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Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Jane doesn
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“The curfew tolls the knell o fparting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods h
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iambic pentameter, abab, two accented syllables, slow down the pace
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Had I as many souls as there be stars.
I’d give them all for Mephistophilis!
By him I’ll be great emperor of the w
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Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, Man
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“It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise. Know, then, that for you is n
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Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carried, Carrie
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“He neither spoke, nor loosed his hold some five minutes, during which period he bestowed more kisses than ever he gave
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Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, meeting
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‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’
‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick. It all depends. ’”
Questions:
A. Who’s the author of the
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Hemingway, Indian Camp|life and death|Death can be both easy and hard.
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“My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’ d from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the s
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Whitman, Song of Myself|America|devotion
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1. “When the stars threw down their spears,
And water’ d heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did h
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William Blake;God; peace and purity
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“Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock or hill;
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a ca
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London, sonnet
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Shall I compare thee to a summer.s day?
Thou are more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling
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Shakespeare, eternity of poetry, sonnet
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So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn.t know what to do. At last I had an idea; and I says, I.ll go and
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Huck, Miss Watson, a boy with good heart but deformed conscience
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When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hands on the open bible, of the
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young Goodman Brown, attend a witches
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Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her
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