玉林师范学院10级美国文学期末复习资料.doc

连线题 1’*10=10% 判断题 1’*10=10% 单选题 1’*30=30% 作品选读分析 8’*5=40 % 简述题 10’*1=10% 作品选读分析: Passage 1 … Suddenly there shot along the path a wild light, and I turned to see whence a gleam so unusual could have issued—for the vast house and its shadows where alone behind me. The radiance was that of the full, setting, and blood-re moon, which now shone vividly through that once barely-discernible fissure, of which I have before spoken, as extending from the roof of the building, in a zigzag direction, to the base. … Questions: From which short story is this passage taken? Who is the author of this short story? The Fall of the House of Usher ，Edgar Allan Poe what kind of story is it? Psychological horror story What’s the symbolic meaning of the “House” and the “Fissure”? “House” refers to the actual structure and the family, plays a significant role in the story. “Fissure” that develops in its side is symbolic of the decay of the Usher family Passage 2 The runaway slave came to my house and stopt outside, I heard his motions crackling the twigs of the woodpile, Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsy and weak, And went where he sat on a log and led him in and assured him, And brought water and fill’d a tub for his sweated body and bruis’d feet, And gave him a room that enter’d from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes, Questions: Who’s the poet? From which collection of poetry is the poem taken from? Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass What’s the form of the poem? What is its definition? Free verse —poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. 3. What’s the symbolic meaning of the title of the collection? What’s the theme of the poem? It is significant that Whitman entitled his book Leaves of Grass. He said that where there is earth, where there is water, there is grass. Grass, the most common thing with the greatest vitality, is an image of the poet himself, a symbol of the then rising American nation and an embodiment of his idea