原标题：英美文学英语专业常识考研真题答案
英美文学有些（50分）
ⅰ. give a brief explanation to each of the following literary terms. (15 points)
1. free v
erse
【答案】free verse is a term describing various styles of poetry that are written without using a strict rhyme scheme, but still recognizable as poetry by virtue of complex patterns of one sort or another that readers will perceive to be part of a coherent whole. walt whitman is a representative who employed free verse successfully.查看答案
2. plot
【答案】in literature, a plot is all the events in a story particularly rendered towards the achievement of some particular artistic or emotional effect. in other words, it’s what mostly happened in the story or novel or what the story’s general theme is based on, such as the mood, characters, setting, and conflicts occurring in a story.查看答案
3. tragedy
【答案】a tragedy is a story that presents courageous individuals who confront powerful forces within or outside themselves with a dignity that reveals the breadth and depth of the human spirit in the face of failure, defeat, and even death. tragedies recount an individual’s downfall; they usually begin high and end low. shakespeare is known for his tragedies, including macbeth, king lear, othello, and hamlet.查看答案
4. “stream of consciousness” novel
【答案】a “stream of consciousness” novel attempts to depict the flow of inner experience of the characters. those novels break through the bounds of time and space, and mingle the thoughts, feelings, and sense impressions of characters at a specific time. famous “stream of consciousness” novelists include james joyce, virginia woolf and william faulkner.查看答案
5. imagism
【答案】imagism is a poetic movement that flourished in the u.s. and britain between 1909 and 1917. the movement was led by the american poets ezra pound and, later, amy lowell. the imagist poets placed stressed precision in the choice of words, freedom in the choice of subject matter and form and the use of colloquial language. notable collections of imagist poetry are des imagistes: an anthology, compiled by pound, and the three anthologies compiled by amy lowell, all under the title some imagist poets.查看答案
ⅱ. choose the right answer to complete each of the statement below. (10 points)
1. the king james bible _____.
a. was written by king james ⅰ
b. was directed by james ⅰ
c. was translated under the order of james ⅰ
d. was translated by king james ⅰ
【答案】c查看答案
【解析】《钦定本圣经》是在詹姆士一世的指令下翻译的，对英语文学发生了重要的影响，还被认为是现代英语的基石。
2. in his novel, robinson crusoe, defoe eulogizes the hero of the _____.
a. aristocratic class
b. enterprising landlords
c. rising bourgeoisie
d. hard-working people
【答案】c查看答案
【解析】在《鲁宾逊漂流记》中，笛福把鲁宾逊赞誉为一个新式资产阶层的英豪。
3. best known for his masterpiece the faerie queene, _____ is regarded as the “poet’s poet”.
a. john donne
b. william shakespeare
c. edmund spenser
d. philip sidney
【答案】c查看答案
【解析】《仙后》的作者斯宾塞被称为“诗人中的诗人”以及“诗人之王”。
4. which of the following is not written by john milton?
a. lycidas
b. paradise lost
c. areopagitica
d. the new atlantis
【答案】d查看答案
【解析】the new atlantis（《新亚特兰蒂斯》或《新大西岛》）的作者是francis bacon（弗朗西斯·培根），其他选项都是弥尔顿的作品。
5. tess of the d’urbervilles is a novel written by _____.
a. thomas hardy
b. charles dickens
c. d.h. lawrence
d. george eliot
【答案】a查看答案
【解析】《德伯家的苔丝》作者是托马斯·哈代。
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