【正文】 It describes the conflict between the primitive people and nature.6. What is the genre and structure of Canterbury Tales? It is a long narrative poem with 24 stories plus a prologue. There are three parts in it: 1. The General Prologue2. 24 tales3. Separate prologues to each tale with links, ments in between7. Satan is the most welldeveloped character in Paradise Lost. Please state your interpretation to this statement.One reason that Satan is easy to sympathize with is that he is much more like us than God or the Son are. As the embodiment of human errors, he is much easier for us to imagine and empathize with than an omniscient deity. Satan’s character and psychology are all very human, and his envy, pride, and despair are understandable given his situation. But Satan’s speeches, while undeniably moving, subtly display their own inconsistency and error.To Milton, the proud and somber Satan represented the spirit of rebellion against an unjust authority. By using Satan as his mouthpiece, Milton is uttering his intense hatred of tyranny in the capacity of the Revolutionary.8. In “I wandered lonely as a cloud,” how does Wordsworth achieve the seemingly effortless effect of implying the unity of his consciousness with nature?Wordsworth employs a kind of identityswitching technique, whereby nature is personified and humanity is, so to speak, natureized. Wordsworth describes himself as wandering “l(fā)ike a cloud,” and describes the field of daffodils as a dancing crowd of people. This kind of interchangeable terminology implies a unity—metaphors from either realm can be applied to the other, because the mind and the natural world are one. 更多： 自己找答案！9. What are the characteristics of Romanticism?10. Chaucer is regarded as the father of Modern English poetry, and what are the major contributions made by him?11. How is Beowulf structured? How does this structure relate to the theme or themes of the work as a whole?12. In what ways might Jane Eyre be considered a feminist novel? What points does the novel make about the treatment and position of women in Victorian society?13. What role does fire dragon play in Beowulf?14. What is the genre and structure of Canterbury Tales? 15. Satan is the most welldeveloped character in Paradise Lost. Please state your interpretation to this statement.16. In “I wandered lonely as a cloud” how does Wordsworth achieve the seemingly effortless effect of implying the unity of his consciousness with nature?。 so he shall never know how I love him。 but not handsome enough to tempt me。 logic and rhetoric, able to contend.Questions:1. This passage is taken from a famous essay written by ________.(1’)2. What is the title of the essay? (1’)3. What do you think of the language of this essay? (8’)Selected reading 3Of Man39。 the mathematics, subtle。 and if he read little, he had need have more cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise。Then thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.Questions:1. The author of this poem is _____. (1’)2. What is the “Milky Way”? (2’)3. What is the symbolic meaning of “daffodils”? (1’)4. What is the symbolic meaning of “milky way”? (1’)5. Wordsworth once wrote “Good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”, how to prove his ideas of “Spontaneous feelings” in this poem? (5’)Selected reading 2Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory。Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe—My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I go.Questions:1. Who is the writer of this poem? (1’)2. What is the title of this poem? (1’)3. What is the main theme of this poem? (4’)4. What is the most striking feature of the verse? (2’)5. What is the most obvious rhetorical device used in the poem? (2’)Selected reading 5It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.Questions:1. This passage is the opening of a novel entitled _____.(1’)2. The writer of the novel is the first famous woman novelist _____.(1’)3. What is the style of the passage? (2’)4. What is the passage describing? (6’)Selected reading 116I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o’er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host of golden daffodils。Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow!Farewell to the straths and green valleys below!Farewell to the forests and wildhanging woods!Farewell to the torrents and loudpouring floods!My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here。My heart’s in the Highlands, achasing the deer。 it beareth the name of Vanity Fair because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity。 and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair。Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe—My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I go.Questions:1. Who is the writer of this poem? (1’)2. What is the title of this poem? (1’)3. What is the main theme of this poem? (4’)4. What is the