文档介绍：2011 年招收攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题
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学科、专业名称:外国语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学
研究方向:各研究方向
考试科目名称:808 外国语言文学综合考试
SECTION A
. Fill the blanks with proper answers 10%
1. The English , also known as ________________________ , usually has a regular
rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g.
2. It was in 1798, with the publication of William Wordsworth’s ___________, in collaboration
with . Coleridge, that romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of
English literature.
3. The typical feature of Robert Browning's poetry is the ____________________.
4. The Graveyard Poets were a number of pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century
characterized by their gloomy meditations on mortality in the context of the graveyard. A
contemplative and mellow mood is achieved in the celebrated opening verse of Gray's
_____________________.
5. As one of the great innovators of the modern novel, Virginia Woolf developed the technique of
__________________________ in her writing, which focuses on plex lives of
characters’ inner minds instead of outward actions.
6. It was ___________________ , as the primary author who wrote “the Declaration of
Independence”, together with other four men including Benjamin Franklin.
7. ____________________’s “The Raven” is a dark reflection on lost love, death, and loss of hope.
8. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter is a story about a woman named _________________
living in seventeenth - century Boston, then a puritan settlement.
9. Early in the 1920s the most prominent of the new American playwrights, ______________,
established an international reputation with such plays as The Emperor Jones and The Hairy
Ape.
10. Hemingway’s stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel _________
in 1929, which portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.
. Define the terms listed below according to your knowledge of English and American
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