【正文】 uld Drain your sweat nay, drink your blood? Questions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken. B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2?C. Whom does “drones” refer to?Answer: A: The Men of England by Percy Bysshe ShelleyB. Metaphor (不確定答案) C. Drones: the male of the honeybees that do not work, referring here to the parasitic class in human society.42. The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot: No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be。 no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous, Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse。s the speaker of the quoted lines? C. What does the first line show about the speaker?Answer:A. The Love Song of Prufrock.B. Prufrock.C. (待補充)43．There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look39。 Leaves of Grass. C. This poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him and improved himself accordingly.44. I heard a Fly buzz when I died The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air Between the Heaves of Storm The Eyes around had wrung them dry And Breaths were gathering firm For that last Onset when the King Be witnessed in the Room Questions: A. Identify the poet. B. What does “the King” refer to? C. What moment is the poem trying to describe?Answer: A. Emily Dickinson B. the King refers to the God of death. C. the poem trying to describe the moment of death. the author even imagined her own death, the loss of her own body, and the journey of her soul to the unknownIII. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. List at least two leading neoclassicists in England. What did Neoclassicists celebrate in literary creation?A. The Neoclassicism period was an important age with the remarkable authors Pope, Defoe, etc.B. 1) The Neoclassical period is about 16601798, also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the age of Reason. 2)In essence, the Neoclassical Period was a progressive intellectual movement. 3)The Enlighteners believed in selfrestraint, selfreliance and hard work。 the works at the time, heavily didactic and moralizing。 among which prose and the modern English novel predominated the age.46. Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel?Answer: A. The story opens with the titular heroine, Jane Eyre, a plain little orphan.B. This novel sharply criticize the existing society, . the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions, the social discrimination Jane experiences and the false social convention as concerning love and marriage.C. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine Jane Eyre.D. It is an intense moral fable at the same time. Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness.47. Who are the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what are the differences in their understanding of the “truth”?Answer: A. the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism are Mark Twain, Howells, Henry James. B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the life of the Americans, Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world” of man. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way they lived, while Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories.48. What39。 s naturalistic belief? Please discuss the question with Carrie, a character in Sister Carrie as an example.Answer: 1) Penniless and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth, Sister Carrie leaves her rural home to seek work in Chicago, she grows from an innocent, pure country girl to be a girl mature in intellect and emotion, and she bees a star of musical edies. But in spite of her success in material, she is not happy but lonely and dissatisfied. 2) Sister Carrie best embodies Dreiser’s naturalistic belief that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct and chance, a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose for their existenceIV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each) Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Briefly discuss William Shakespeare39。s art of fiction in terms of the setting, the language, and the characters, etc., based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Answer: 1).Adventures of Huckleberry find proved itself to be the milestone in American literature and thus firmly established Twain’s position in American literature.2) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn marks the climax of Twain’s literary creativity. The novel is written in a language that is totally different from the rhetorical language used by Emerson, Poe, and Melville. It is simple, direct, lucid, and faithful to the colloquial speech. Speaking in vernacular, a wild and uneducated Huck, running away from civilization for his freedom, is vividly brought to life. Indeed, with his great mastery and effective use of vernacular, Twain has made colloquial speech an accepted, respectable literary medium in the literary history of the country. 3) Mark Twain’s humor is remarkable, too. His humor is not only of witty remarks mocking at small things or of farcical elements making people laugh, but a kind of artistic style used to criticize the social injustice and satirize the decayed romanticism.4). The profound p